Having sold my house in Clevedon last June but my buyer keeps e-mailing every few hours to moan that their solicitor needs to hear from myconveyancer. What are the post completion sale formalities following completion?
After completion of your disposal your solicitor should forward the transfer documentation and all of the paperwork to the purchaser's solicitors. Depending on the transaction, your conveyancer must also send confirmation that the home loan has been redeemed to the purchasers solicitors. There are no post completion procedures unique to conveyancing in Clevedon.
I am assisting my step-mother sell her flat in Clevedon. Does the solicitor arrange an energy assessment or it is for the owner to coordinate?
Following the demise of Home Information Packs, EPC’s remained a required component of moving house. An energy performance certificate needs to be to hand in advance of the property being marketed. It is not as aspect of the sale process that conveyancers normally organise. Where you are instructing a Clevedon conveyancing lawyer they may be able to arrange EPC’s given their contacts with long established local providers
My wife and I purchasing a end of terrace house in Clevedon. Our aim is to convert the garage to a playroom at the house.Will the conveyancing process involve checks to ascertain if these alterations were previously refused?
Your conveyancer should check the registered title as conveyancing in Clevedon will occasionally identify restrictions in the title documents which prohibit categories of alterations or require the permission of another owner. Some extensions call for local authority planning consent and approval in accordance building regulations. Certain locations are designated conservation areas and special planning restrictions apply which often prevent or affect extensions. You should check these issues with a surveyor before you commit yourself to a purchase.
My partner and I are in the process of looking at apartments in Clevedon and I am about to put in an offer. Should I already have a conveyancing practitioner appointed at this point? I intend to finance via a mortgage with Clydesdale.
You should start requesting conveyancing estimates from solicitors ASAP. After you have chosen your lawyer and once your offer is accepted you can instruct them to work for you and pass their contact information on to the selling agent. As you are taking out a mortgage with Clydesdale, make sure you remember to check that your lawyer is on the Clydesdale conveyancing panel.
A relative advised me that where I am buying in Clevedon I should carry out a Neighbourhood, Planning and Local Amenity Search. Can you explain what the purpose of this search is?
This is a search is sometimes included in the estimate for your Clevedon conveyancing searches. It is a large report of more than thirty pages, listing and setting out important information about Clevedon around the property and the people living there. It incorporates an Aerial Photograph, Planning Applications, Land Use, Mobile Phone Masts, Rights of Way, the local Housing Market, Council Tax Banding, the demographics of People living in the area, the dominant type of Housing, the Average Property Price, Crime statistics, Local Education with plans and statistics, Local Amenities and other useful data concerning Clevedon.
Due to the encouragement of my in-laws I had a survey completed on a property in Clevedon before instructing lawyers. I have been told that there is a flying freehold aspect to the property. The surveyor advised that some banks tend not grant a loan on a flying freehold house.
It depends who your proposed lender is. Bank of Scotland has different requirements for example to Halifax. If you call us we can look into this further via the relevant mortgage company. If you lender is happy to lend one our lawyers can help as they are accustomed to dealing with flying freeholds in Clevedon. Conveyancing may be slightly more expensive based on your lender's requirements.
My husband and I are first time buyers - had an offer accepted, yet the selling agent informed us that the owners will only move forward if we use their recommended lawyers as they want a ‘quick sale’. My instinct tells me that we should use a family conveyancer accustomed to conveyancing in Clevedon
We suspect that the seller is not behind this request. If they require ‘a quick sale', taking such a hostile approach to a genuine buyer is not the way to achieve this. Contact the owners directly and make the point that (a)you are motivated purchasers (b)you are ready to go, with mortgage lined up © you have nothing to sell (d) you intend to proceed fast (e)however you are going to use your own,trusted Clevedon conveyancing lawyers - as opposed tothe ones that will earn their estate agent a kickback or meet his conveyancing figures demanded by HQ.