I am buying a house without a mortgage in East Sheen. I have resided for the last dozen years in East Sheen. Conveyancing searches are a lot of money. As I know the road and vicinity intimately must I have all the conveyancing searches?

If you not getting a home loan, then the vast majority of the East Sheen conveyancing searches are optional. Your conveyancer will ’encourage you, no-doubt strongly, that you should have searches completed, but he is duty bound to take that path of advice. Do take into account; if you are likely to sell the house in the future, it could be of relevance to your future purchaser what the searches reveal. On occasion houses with no practical issues can still reveal negative search results. A good conveyancing solicitor in East Sheen should provide you some helpful advice in this regard.

My wife and I own a terraced Victorian house in East Sheen. Conveyancing lawyer represented me and HSBC Bank. I did a free Land Registry search last week and there are a couple of entries: one for freehold, the second leasehold with the matching property. I thought I was buying a freehold how can I check?

You should read the Freehold register you have again and check the Charges Register for mention of a lease. The best way to be sure that you are also the registered owner of the leasehold and freehold title as well is to check (£3). It is not completely unheard of in East Sheen and other locations in the country and poses no real issues for owners other than when they buy they have to account for both freehold and leasehold interests when dealing with mortgage companies. You can also check the position with the conveyancing solicitor who conducted the conveyancing.

The estate agent has sent us the confirmation of our purchase of a new build apartment in East Sheen. Conveyancing is daunting at the best of times but I have never purchased a new build flat before. What sort of enquires would be asked in new build legal work.

Set out below are examples of a few leasehold new build questions that you should expect your new-build leasehold conveyancing in East Sheen

Please provide evidence that the form of Lease proposed has been approved by the Land Registry. Investor purchasers must be able to freely grant unsecured tenancies at market rents without requiring any consents. The Lease must contain a provision on behalf of the Vendor to pay the service charges in respect of unoccupied units in order to ensure that all services can be provided. Will the freehold then be transferred for a nominal consideration (not exceeding £100) to the Management Company?

My husband and I are 3 weeks into a freehold purchase having been directed to solicitors by the estate agent to handle our conveyancing in East Sheen. I am am extremely frustrated with the quality of service. Could you help me find new conveyancers?

They would need to be very bad to suggest changing them. Has your loan offer been generated? If so you need to make them aware of the replacement solicitor and have the offer are re-sent. Your solicitor ideally needs to be on the mortgage company panel to avoid added costs and frustration. That should be your first question of the new lawyers. The find a solicitor tool can help you find a bank approved conveyancer for your home move in East Sheen

I own a leasehold flat in East Sheen. Conveyancing and Santander mortgage are in place. I have received a letter from someone claiming to own the freehold. It included a ground rent demand for rent dating back to 1998. The conveyancing solicitor in East Sheen who acted for me is not around. Do I pay?

First contact the Land Registry to be sure that the individual claiming to own the freehold is in fact the new freeholder. It is not necessary to incur the fees of a East Sheen conveyancing lawyer to do this as it can be done on-line for a few pound. You should note that regardless, even if this is the rightful landlord, under the Limitation Act 1980 no more than 6 years of rent can be collected.

I have had difficulty in trying to reach an agreement for a lease extension in East Sheen. Can this matter be resolved via the Leasehold Valuation Tribunal?

if there is a missing freeholder or if there is disagreement about what the lease extension should cost, under the relevant statutes you can apply to the Leasehold Valuation Tribunal to calculate the premium.

An example of a Freehold Enfranchisement decision for a East Sheen flat is 19 St. Margarets Crescent in August 2010. the tribunal was of the view that the premium to be paid by the leaseholder for the freehold reversion was £51,983.00 This case related to 3 flats. The unexpired lease term was 66.25 years.