Walkers Solicitors Ltd

08/10/2025

📣 WE’RE HIRING!

Are you a passionate and driven Crime Solicitor looking for a new opportunity?

We’re expanding our team and are looking for a crime solicitor to join our busy and dedicated criminal law department. There’s room for progression for the right person. Could that be you?

📍 Waterfoot, Rossendale
🕰️ Full time position
💼 Competitive salary based on experience
✔️ Great career development opportunities

Interested or know someone who might be?
Please contact us. We’d love to hear from you!

29/08/2024

There are a limited number of "rewards" left to be purchased by way of a donation. These include a discount of £400 off your conveyancing fees or free wills, along with lots of other things. Just follow the link below and click "donate" to browse what is available!

Our aim is to reduce the pollution that the 2-stroke engine on our club rib puts out into the lakes & seas, by replacing it with a 4-stroke.

23/08/2024

Walkers Solicitors Ltd are proud to support Burnley Sub Aqua Club in their fundraising for a new, quieter, less polluting engine for their Rhib. If anyone wants to donate the details are on the following link. There are a number of "rewards" to be purchased at tasty discounted prices too. Also, if any local businesses would like to get involved and offer rewards, please get in touch!

Our aim is to reduce the pollution that the 2-stroke engine on our club rib puts out into the lakes & seas, by replacing it with a 4-stroke.

07/05/2024

Yet another couple of happy clients showing their appreciation 💐🌻

17/04/2024

It’s nice to be nice… and lovely to be appreciated. Happy Wednesday everyone☀️

19/06/2023

We frequently ask clients to comment on aspects of the service they have received - those comments are always reviewed and provide hugely important feedback for us. Here are a couple recently and gratefully received by our Private Client team:

"Very quick and professional service. Already recommended to friends"

"Professional, courteous and everything fully explained"

The team can help with Wills, Powers of Attorney, Grants of Probate & Estate Administration - give us a call on 01706 213565.

19/05/2023

It is with great sadness that we mark the passing of Colin Foster. Colin, who was a respected and much loved solicitor and a former director of Walkers, died on 16th May 2023. Our thoughts are with his wife Karen at this difficult time.

05/04/2023

🐣EASTER EXTRAVAGANZA!🐣

We are excited to offer an Easter promotion throughout the month of April for our conveyancing clients.

If you instruct us to act on a sale, purchase or both during April 2023 we will give you £100 plus VAT towards your legal fees!

Give us a call on 01706213565 ☎️or drop us an email on [email protected] ✉️

🌼🐰🐣Happy Easter from all at Walkers Solicitors Ltd! 🐣🐰🌼

24/03/2023

National Conveyancing Week: Lenders

As part of purchasing a property the conveyancer usually also acts for the lender who will be a client and owed the same duties by the conveyancer as is the buyer.

The Lender will send the mortgage offer and letter of instructions to supplement their standard instructions contained (usually) within the UK Finance Lenders’ Handbook which extend to many pages covering all aspects of the transaction. Each lender has different requirements, and the conveyancer has to comply with those as well as with any specific instructions from the buyer and will examine the title documents with those instructions in mind. If your conveyancer is asking questions you don’t think are important, it is likely because they must due to the lender’s requirements.

When you’re ready to complete, the Conveyancer requests funds from the lender by submitting a certificate of title to say that the property complies with all the lenders’ instructions and is suitable security for their lending. Those funds are added to the deposit and used to purchase the property.

Most lenders have limited panels of solicitors they will deal with. Walkers are on the panels of most mainstream lenders.

Give us a call or drop us an email for a quotation or for more information on the process.

22/03/2023

National Conveyancing week – Following on from confirming that you are who you say, the conveyancer will look at the title to the property. This includes ownership details, as well as detailing any rights granted to the property over other land, rights reserved to other land over the property, restrictive covenants and a host of other features.

The conveyancer for the seller will draft a contract based on this to send to the purchasers’ conveyancer. The purchasers’ conveyancer is checking that there is nothing about these rights, reservations or covenants which might be a problem to you in the future – such as they are too onerous, are missing, or have been breached.

Beyond the title the conveyancer will also look at the planning and building regulations history for the property to ensure there are no enforceable breaches there. This information usually comes from the searches, along with a huge volume of additional information which is all collated and checked against all sources of information we have (such as the sales particulars, survey, and discussions with you). If there are concerns or omissions, these are sent back to the sellers as pre-contract enquiries which can take some time to resolve.

It is this part of the process which needs the most legal (and often local) knowledge and which takes the most time, particularly where problems are discovered. At Walkers we have a very experienced team of conveyancers who have the knowledge needed to resolve any problems swiftly and efficiently – give us a call, drop us an email, or download our app for a quotation or more information.

21/03/2023

National Conveyancing Week thoughts: once you instruct a conveyancer the first thing that will happen is that they will ask you to provide evidence of your identity.

Why? Because they have an obligation to protect against fraud. They have to check that their client is actually who they say they are as they don’t want to help a criminal to sell a house they don’t own or take out a mortgage in a false name.

Conveyancers also have to look at the funding for the transaction – is that funding from legitimate sources or is it from nefarious activities - perhaps from the proceeds of crime or tax evasion. It is not an area of the job conveyancers enjoy doing, but there are criminal sanctions for failing to do it properly so please do what you can to help by providing the information requested as soon as you can particularly because your transaction is unlikely to go anywhere until you have done.

At Walkers we use an electronic solution for all of this via our app and web portal – search for Walkers Solicitors in your app store! The information we request in the app can be provided in as little as 20 minutes in the comfort of your own home…although we do prefer you to be fully clothed when you take your selfie!