Once your offer on a new home has been accepted, or you have decided to sell your current home, the next step is to find a conveyancing solicitor to handle the legal side of the move. The firm you choose will manage one of the largest transactions you are ever likely to make, so the decision is worth a little thought. This piece explains what to look for and why buyers and sellers across Ballymoney and County Antrim choose LMK Law to act for them. Find County Antrim Conveyancing solicitors.
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Does the firm have experience in Northern Irish conveyancing?
The conveyancing process in Northern Ireland follows its own rules, which are not the same as those in England and Wales. There are two systems of land records, the Land Registry for registered titles and the Registry of Deeds for unregistered ones, each of which has its own searches and forms of transfer. A firm that handles these transactions every day will deal with the registries, councils, and search providers far more efficiently than one that does so only occasionally.
LMK Law is a Northern Irish firm based on the High Street in Ballymoney, acting for clients throughout County Antrim. We work with registered and unregistered titles regularly, including the older and rural properties common in this part of the country, so the features that can complicate a local transaction are familiar to us.
How does the firm charge?
Solicitors in Northern Ireland are required by the Law Society of Northern Ireland to provide written terms of business at the start of a residential transaction, setting out their fees and the likely additional costs. We give every client a clear written quotation at the outset, and we would always encourage you to read it carefully and ask any questions, which we will be delighted to answer.
Our quotation sets out our own fee alongside the additional expenses, sometimes called disbursements, that arise on a typical matter. These include search fees, Land Registry fees, any Stamp Duty Land Tax payable to HM Revenue and Customs, and the cost of an Energy Performance Certificate where one is required. Setting these out plainly means you can see the full picture before you commit, with no surprises later on.
Who will handle your file?
One of the most common frustrations people describe when buying or selling a home is never speaking to the same person twice. At LMK Law, you deal with a small, experienced team who know your matter, and you can call into our Ballymoney office to sign documents or ask a question in person. Our clients regularly tell us that the personal attention they received from our friendly, approachable team made a stressful process much easier, and that they always knew where their transaction stood. We also offer multilingual support, including Polish, so that clients can deal with us in a language they are comfortable with.
That personal approach is reflected in the reviews our clients leave. People come back to us when they move again, and they recommend us to family and friends, which, for us, is the measure that matters most.
What types of property matters can LMK handle?
LMK Law acts across the full range of residential and commercial property work. We help first time buyers through every step of a first purchase, act for people moving home, advise landlords buying buy to let properties and building a portfolio, and work with property developers on residential and commercial sites. We also deal with the property aspects of wills, probate, and estates. Whatever your circumstances, you are dealing with a firm that has seen the situation before.
What happens once you instruct us?
Once you have chosen us to act, we will send you our written terms of business and carry out the identity and funding checks that all solicitors are required to make. From there, we begin the legal work, which means investigating the title on a purchase or proving it on a sale, raising or replying to enquiries, and dealing with your mortgage lender where there is one. We keep in regular contact throughout, so you are never left wondering what is happening, and we explain each stage in plain language as it comes up. When everything has been agreed and both sides are ready, we fix a completion date and see the matter through to the day the keys change hands.
If you are ready to instruct a firm with specialist experience in Northern Ireland conveyancing, LMK Law are perfectly placed to help. We are independent, we provide clear written quotations, and we keep our clients informed at every stage.
To speak to our experts please call us on 028 2766 6698 or Make An Online Enquiry.