The Kirk Ella conveyancing solicitors that I recently instructed on my house acquisition in Kirk Ella have without warning shut down. I chose them because I had to have a solicitor on the Kent Reliance conveyancing panel and my preferred Kirk Ella lawyer was not. I gave my credit card details for them to take one hundred and fifty pounds for searches. What are my options?

If you have an estate agent involved then let them know immediately so that they advise the vendors that there may be a slight delay due to reasons beyond your control. Hopefully they will be sympathetic and urge their lawyer to send a new set of papers to your new solicitors. You will need to appoint new lawyers that are on the Kent Reliance conveyancing panel and notify the lender. If you have paid over any money, it will hopefully be held by the SRA as money in an intervened firm's bank accounts is transferred to the SRA. Then, the SRA or the intervention agent looks at the intervened firm's accounts to work out who the money belongs to. To claim your money you will need to contact the SRA. If the SRA cannot return money you are owed from the firm's bank accounts, or if they can only return part of the money, you can apply to the Compensation Fund for a grant. Your new lawyers may be able to help.

Are there restrictive covenants that are commonly identified as part of conveyancing in Kirk Ella?

Restrictive covenants can be picked up when reviewing land registry title as part of the process of conveyancing in Kirk Ella. 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…’

I am buying a new build flat in Kirk Ella. Conveyancing is a frightening process at the best of times but I have never purchased a new build flat before. Can you give me some examples of some of the questions asked in new build legal work.

Here is a sample of a selection of leasehold new build enquiries that you may expect your new-build leasehold conveyancing in Kirk Ella

There must be mutual enforceability of lessee’s covenants. Has the Lease plan been approved by the Land Registry and if not when will they be lodged for this purpose? Where there is an Undertaking being granted there is the risk of forfeiture of the Headlease subject to relief if one or more of the Underlessees are willing to accept the original Head Lessee’s obligations as otherwise relief will be denied to the Underlessees. The only alternatives are the Head Lessor agreeing not to forfeit the Headlease or the Head Lessee guaranteeing to the Underlessees that it will not be in breach of the Headlease. If there are lifts in the building, please confirm that the owners of flats on the ground and basement floors will not be required to contribute towards the cost of maintenance and renewal. Will control of the Management Company (if any) be handed over to purchasers on completion of the last sale or earlier?

In my capacity as executor for the estate of my uncle I am disposing of a residence in Newport but reside in Kirk Ella. My conveyancer (based 250 kilometers from mehas requested that I execute a stat dec prior to completion. Could you suggest a conveyancing solicitor in Kirk Ella who can witness this legal document for me?

Technically speaking you should not be required to have the documents witnessed by a conveyancing solicitor. Ordinarily any notary public or solicitor will suffice regardless of whether they are based in Kirk Ella

I have been advised by many friends that it may take six to eight weeks for Kirk Ella conveyancing to complete.This was a month ago. The paperwork was only sent from the vendors property lawyer yesterday so does the clock start running now?

Don't bank on counting down a two month period. Giving assurances as to accurately how long Kirk Ella conveyancing will take is nigh on impossible. Every Kirk Ella conveyancing transaction will have it’s own unique set of complexities. As a result your conveyancer should find it difficult to accurately predict the length of time it will take to finalise your conveyancing in Kirk Ella.