At Sydney Mitchell, we take great pride in offering a comprehensive residential conveyancing service designed to provide our clients with a seamless experience. Whether you’re buying, selling, transferring, or re-mortgaging your property, our friendly and knowledgeable property experts are committed to making your conveyancing transaction as stress-free and straightforward as possible.
As an accredited member of the Law Society’s Conveyancing Quality Scheme (CQS), our Residential Property team adheres to recognized quality standards, focusing on integrity, good practice, management standards, and efficient conveyancing procedures. This accreditation underscores our commitment to delivering exceptional service and maintaining high standards in residential conveyancing.
How can we help?
Our services
Our services cover all aspects of conveyancing, including title searches, contract reviews, and settlements, ensuring that your property transaction is handled efficiently and with utmost care.
Our Residential Property team can assist with both freehold and leasehold properties, regardless of whether they are registered or unregistered.
Below is a full list of the residential property services dealt with by our team:
Buying or selling a property
- Sales and purchases – we advise purchasers and sellers whether you’re a first-time buyer or a seasoned investor.
- Purchases of the freehold interest – purchasing the freehold allows leaseholders to acquire outright ownership of their property. We can assist in negotiations with your freeholder.
- Buy-to-let sales and purchases – we can offer advice in buying property specifically to rent out to tenants.
- Right-to-buy purchases – it may be possible for you to apply to buy your home from the Council or Housing Association. We can help assist in this process.
- Shared ownership sales and purchase – we can assist you in purchasing property as part of the government-backed shared ownership scheme.
- New homes and plot sales – we can assist in the legal process of purchasing a brand new home directly from property developers.
- Shared ownership staircasing – we can support you in the process of purchasing additional shares in your shared ownership property.
Re-mortgaging and refinancing
- Re-mortgages – If you have an existing mortgage and wish to re-mortgage we can assist you in the process.
- Equity releases – if you are aged 55 and above and wish to release funds from your home without needing to sell we can advise before proceeding.
Transfer of equity
We can support you in the process of changing the legal ownership of your property.
Other specialist services
- Assents – we can offer advice in transferring a deceased person’s ownership of a property into the name of their beneficiaries.
- Adverse possession applications – we can advise in claims of ownership of land or property.
- Lease extensions – if you wish to extend the remaining term of an existing lease we can advise you in this process.
- Voluntary first registration applications – if your land or property is unregistered we can assist you in the process of registering with HM Land Registry.
Why choose our Residential Property team?
We have offices situated in Birmingham City Centre, Sheldon and Shirley. We act for clients not only from the West Midlands but also nationwide and internationally.
Our team is led by property law expert Adam Oleskow. The team is described as “polite, friendly and super efficient experience.”
Whether you require our services yourself or you wish to refer a friend, colleague or client you can feel confident that our Residential Property team can provide legal advice to the highest possible standard.
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