I am in need of a property lawyer. Should I go for for a nationwide conveyancer rather than a family Standish conveyancing solicitor?
In the main conveyancing solicitors in your location will have excellent alliances with your local authority, which could assist with the Standish conveyancing searches that your lawyer will require. It also helps if they have strong relationships with the Local Land Registry Office your area Standish, other conveyancers in the area and Standish Estate Agents.
Can I use your services to recommend a Conveyancing solicitor in Standish even where I’m not purchasing or selling a house, for instance if I wish to acquire an office in Standish with a mortgage from Nottingham Building Society?
Our comparison service is primarily used to help choose domestic conveyancing solicitors in Standish but we have recorded towards the bottom of this page a selection of Standish commercial conveyancing firms. You should enquire with the company directly to establish if they can also act for Nottingham Building Society
Do I have to have a meeting at the offices of the solicitor to execute the mortgage deed? If so, I will choose one who does conveyancing in Standish so that I can pop in to their offices if necessary.
Whereas this was necessary 15 years ago, the vast majority lenders no longer oblige their conveyancing panel solicitor to witness the mortgagors signature. It will still be necessary for you to provide identification documents and there are still distinct benefits to instructing a locally based practitioner, in your situation a conveyancing solicitor in Standish.
Forgive me if this question is silly but I am unseasoned as FTB of a garden flat in Standish. Do I collect the keys to the house on the completion date from my lawyer? If this is the case, I will instruct a local conveyancing solicitor in Standish?
There is no need to visit the lawyers office on the day of completion. Your solicitors will arrange to send the purchase money to the owner’s solicitors, and shortly after the monies have arrived, you should be able to collect the keys from the property Agents and start moving into the property. Usually this happens between 1 and 3pm.
I recently had an offer accepted on a house in Standish. My mortgage broker suggested a conveyancing practitioner. I paid an upfront payment of £175. Shortly after, the solicitor contacted me to say that they were not on the TSB conveyancing panel. Am I right in thinking that I should be due a refund?
You should be able to recover this from the law firm if they were not on the TSB panel. They should have asked at the outset which lender you were obtaining a mortgage with. An important lesson to readers of this site is to check that the lawyers are on the appropriate lender panel.
I had an offer accepted on a property in Standish on 20/3/2024, valuation was booked 4 days later, all came back fine. Conveyancer appointed, so all that was missing was my mortgage offer. Having made daily calls to Co-operative and chasing them on my offer, I have now been told that my offer will not be issued unless the lawyer is on the Co-operative conveyancing panel. Are Co-operative entitled to hold back the Mortgage pending the lawyer being on the approved list?
Mortgage companies tend not to not issue a mortgage until they have details of a lawyer on their panel. It can take a few weeks for Co-operative to deal with your lawyer's application to be on the Co-operative conveyancing panel. There's no guarantee that your solicitor will be accepted.
My parents are experiencing difficulties in finding their Standish property on the HMLR website. They recall that 50 years ago when they bought the house there were complications with the post code not being identified on some systems.
Nearly all premises in Standish should show up. Have you endevoured to search with simply the postcode. Normally it should mention all the houses and flats within that postcode. Assuming the property is recorded it will show up with a title number. If they bought 48 years ago it's conceivable it may be unregistered. The address could still be revealed but with the title number identified as 'na'. In this scenario you will need to track down the original title deeds which may be with your parent’s bank.