My financial adviser requires my Branston lawyer’ panel member for the Nationwide conveyancing panel. How do I find this out. I have e-mailed my local Branston office but they cant find it on their system.
Have you tried contacting your Branston lawyer about this?. They keep a central record lender panel numbers.
My colleague recommended that if I am purchasing in Branston I should carry out a Neighbourhood, Planning and Local Amenity Search. Can you explain what the purpose of this search is?
A search of this type is usually included in the estimate for your Branston conveyancing searches. It is a large report of more than thirty pages, listing and detailing important information about Branston around the property and the people living there. It includes an Aerial Photograph, Planning Applications, Land Use, Mobile Phone Masts, Rights of Way, the Branston Housing Market, Council Tax Banding, the demographics of People living in the area, the dominant type of Housing, the Average House Prices, Crime statistics, Branston Education with maps and statistics, Local Amenities and other useful data concerning Branston.
Are there restrictive covenants that are commonly picked up during conveyancing in Branston?
Restrictive covenants can be picked up when reviewing land registry title as part of the legal transfer of property in Branston. An 1874 stipulation that was seen was ‘The houses to be erected on the estate are each to be of a uniform elevation in accordance with the drawings to be prepared or approved by the vendor’s surveyor…’
Yesterday I discovered that there is a flying freehold element on a property I have offered on two weeks back in what should have been a simple, chain free conveyancing. Branston is the location of the property. Is there any advice you can give?
Flying freeholds in Branston are unusual but are more likely to exist in relation to terraced houses. Even though you don't necessarily need a conveyancing solicitor in Branston you must be sure that your lawyer goes through the deeds thoroughly. Your lender may require your conveyancing solicitor to take out an indemnity policy. Some of the more diligent conveyancing solicitors in Branston may decide that this is not enough and that the deeds be re-written to give you the most up to date legal protection. If so, the next door neighbour also had to sign up to the revised deeds.It is possible that your lender will not accept the situation so the sooner you find out the better. You should also check with your insurance broker as to whether they will insure a flying freehold premises.
Having used your search tool I can't find the lawyer I was hoping to instruct as being on the mortgage company conveyancing panel. My lawyer has said that they are on the lender approved panel. How can I be sure given that they are not listed on your directory?
Not all firms are yet listed on our lender panel search tool which is still relatively new. Law firms are listing on a daily basis and it is probably the case that your lawyer is on the mortgage company conveyancing lawyer and you should probably take them at their word. Please do feel free to suggest that they completing their listing on our site as it would only cost them £1 a month to list themselves as being on the lender solicitor panel.