As someone clueless as to the Greasby conveyancing process what is your top tip you can give me concerning the legal transfer of property in Greasby

You may not hear this from too many lawyers but conveyancing in Greasby and elsewhere in England and Wales is often a confrontational process. Put another way, when it comes to conveyancing there is plenty of room for conflict between you and others involved in the transaction. For instance, the vendor, selling agent and even potentially the mortgage company. Choosing a lawyer for your conveyancing in Greasby is a critical decision as your conveyancer is your adviser, and is the ONE person in the transaction whose interest is to protect your best interests and to keep you safe.

We are witnessing a distinct ongoing adversarial element to conveyancing- someone must be blamed for the process taking so long. You your first instinct should be to trust your conveyancer above the other players when it comes to the legal assignment of property.

I am helping my mother sell her property in Greasby. Does the conveyancer arrange the EPC or should I organise this?

Following the demise of Home Information Packs, energy performance certificates was retained a mandatory component of moving house. An energy performance certificate must be to hand before the property is advertised. It is not something that conveyancers ordinarily arrange. If you are instructing a Greasby conveyancing practitioner they might help arrange EPC’s due to their contacts with long established local assessors

My partner and I are spending time looking at houses in Greasby and I am now considering a potential offer. Is it premature to have a solicitor in place? I am planning to take a mortgage with Co-operative.

You should start requesting conveyancing estimates from solicitors ASAP. Once you decide who you want to use and once your offer is accepted you can instruct them to work for you and forward their contact information on to the estate agent. As you are getting a mortgage with Co-operative, ask your prospective lawyers if they are on the Co-operative conveyancing panel otherwise they can't do the mortgage legal work.

HSBC have agreed my mortgage in principle, my offer on a flat in Greasby has been accepted, now what?

The property agent will need to be informed of your conveyancing practitioner's details (make sure the solicitors are on the bank’s panel). Telephone HSBC or your financial adviser and finish off any appropriate paperwork. HSBC will instruct a valuer who will get in touch with the estate agent or vendor to book a time for the valuation to happen. Once conducted (assuming no problems) it takes approximately ten days for the mortgage offer to be issued. HSBC will send the offer to you and your solicitors. The transaction will then take it’s course according the nature and complexity of the conveyancing in Greasby.

Given that I will soon spend over three hundred thousand on a property in Greasby I would like to talk to a lawyer regarding thehouse move in advance of appointing the firm. Is this something that you can arrange?

This is something that we encourage - we would be pleased to talk to you we do not take any clients on without you speaking to the lawyer due to be conducting your property ownership legalities in Greasby.There is no ‘factory style conveyancing’ - each client is unique person, not a matter number. The solicitors that we put you in touch with believe that the fees you are calculated and presented to you for residential conveyancing in Greasby should be the figure that you end up paying.

I have just started marketing my ground floor flat in Greasby. Conveyancing lawyers have not yet been instructed, but I have recently had a yearly maintenance charge invoice – what should I do?

Your conveyancing lawyer is likely to suggest that you should pay the maintenance contribution as normal because all rents and service charges should be apportioned on completion, so you should recover the relevant percentage by the purchaser for the period running from after the completion date to the next payment date. Most management companies will not acknowledge the buyer until the service charges have been paid and are up to date, so it is important for both buyer and seller for the seller to show that they are up to date. Having a clear account will assist your cause and will leave you no worse off financially.

I invested in buying a 1 bedroom flat in Greasby, conveyancing having been completed 6 years ago. Can you let me have an estimated range of the fair premium for a lease extension? Comparable flats in Greasby with a long lease are worth £171,000. The average or mid-range amount of ground rent is £50 per annum. The lease runs out on 21st October 2103

With 79 years remaining on your lease we estimate the premium for your lease extension to be between £7,600 and £8,800 plus plus your own and the landlord's "reasonable" professional fees.

The figure above a general guide to costs for extending a lease, but we cannot give you the actual costs without more comprehensive due diligence. You should not use the figures in tribunal or court proceedings. There may be additional issues that need to be considered and you obviously should be as accurate as possible in your negotiations. You should not move forward based on this information before seeking the advice of a professional.

Your search tool is useful but there are many lawyers listed near Greasby being on the bank conveyancing panel. It would be a lot more helpful if you could recommend a specific firm on the bank approved panel?

We do not recommend specific Greasby firms as the right Greasby conveyancing solicitor for you depends on where your priorities lie. For example you may require a local firm with Greasby knowledge or you might be looking for the low cost conveyancing. We recommend that you speak to 3 or 4 lawyers listed before you make your choice..