My wife and I are purchasing a newly built flat in Datchet and Langley and my lawyer is advising me that she has to the mortgage company to reveal incentives from the builder. The Estate Agents are hassling me to exchange contracts and I don't want to delay the conveyancing. Is my lawyer right?

You should not exchange unless you have been advised to do so by your conveyancing practitioner. A precondition to being on a bank panel is to comply with the UK Finance Lenders’ Handbook provisions. The CML Conveyancing Handbook requires that your lawyer have the appropriate Disclosure of Incentive form completed by the developer and accepted by your lender.

A relative suggested that where I am purchasing in Datchet and Langley I should ask my conveyancer to carry out a Neighbourhood, Planning and Local Amenity Search. What does it cover?

This is a search is occasionally included in the estimate for your Datchet and Langley conveyancing searches. It is not a small report of about 40 pages, listing and detailing important information about Datchet and Langley around the property and the people living there. It incorporates an Aerial Photograph, Planning Applications, Land Use, Mobile Phone Masts, Rights of Way, the Datchet and Langley Housing Market, Council Tax Banding, the demographics of People living in the area, the dominant type of Housing, the Average House Prices, Crime details, Datchet and Langley Education with maps and statistics, Local Amenities and other useful information about Datchet and Langley.

I'm buying a new build house in Datchet and Langley benefiting from help to buy. The builders refused to reduce the amount so I negotiated five thousand pounds worth of fixtures and fittings instead. The property agent told me not reveal to my conveyancer about this deal as it could put at risk my mortgage with the lender. Should I keep quiet?.

All lenders require a Disclosure of Incentives Form from the developer of any new build, converted or renovated property, It is available online from the Lenders’ Handbook page on the CML website. CML form is completed and handed to the lender's surveyor when the inspection is done.

Lenders have different policies on incentives. Some accept none at all, cash or physical, while others will accept cash incentives up to 5%.

Hard to understand why the representative of a builder would be suggesting you withold information from a solicitor when all this will be clearly visible on forms the builder has to supply to its solicitor, the buyer's solicitor and the surveyor.

I am looking for a conveyancing practitioner in Datchet and Langley for my home move. Can I check a solicitor's complaints history with the profession’s regulator?

Anyone may review presented Solicitor Regulator Association (SRA) determinations arising from inquisitions from 2008 onwards. Visit Check a solicitor's record. To find details about the period before 1 January 2008, or to check a firm's record, ring 0870 606 2555, 08.00 - 18.00 any week day save for Tuesday when lines open at 9.30am. For non-uk callers, call +44 (0)121 329 6800. The regulator could recorded telephone calls for training purposes.

My husband and I have agreed a price on a Datchet and Langley property left to us six years ago in 2011. I have over a decades worth of conveyancing knowledge and, now retired, intend to do the conveyancing. The buyer's conveyancing practitioner has informed me that their mortgage company will not allow us to do our own conveyancing as they require the funds to be passed via a solicitor's bank account.

Mortgage requirements to conveyancers from all mainstream lenders specify that If the vendor is not legally represented the buyer’s lawyers should check whether the mortgage company needs to be told so that a decision can be reached as to whether or not they are willing to progress.