Do I choose a Licenced Conveyancer or Solicitor for conveyancing in Timsbury?

Two types of professional can do conveyancing in Timsbury namely licenced conveyancers or solicitors. The two can administer the legal services that required to complete the sale or acquisition of property. Both are required to execute Timsbury conveyancing on similar standards and guidelines so you can be sure that your conveyancing will be properly conducted and that all necessary steps should be appropriately attended to.

I am helping my sister sell her property in Timsbury. Does the solicitor order an EPC or it is for the owner to see to?

Following the abolition of HIPs, energy assessments was maintained a compulsory component of selling a house. An energy performance certificate needs to be commissioned in advance of the property being marketed. This is not as aspect of the sale process that conveyancers normally arrange. If you are instructing a Timsbury conveyancing solicitor they might be able to arrange EPC’s given their contacts with long established local accredited person

Completion of my purchase has taken place for my property in Timsbury. Conveyancing was satisfactory but I feel I should register my dissatisfaction about the lender. Who do I contact should I wish to lodge a complaint?

Almost all banks and building societies have complaints procedures. Your first port of call should be one of the lender’s branches or the Customer Care Department at head office. In most cases complaints to a lender are sorted out very quickly. If you feel the matter is not resolved you can write to Financial Ombudsman Service, South Quay Plaza, 183 Marsh Wall, London E14 9SR with full details of your complaint.

I require fast conveyancing in Timsbury as I have pressure to sign on the dotted line within 3 weeks. A mortgage is not required. Is it possible to escape the need for conveyancing searches to save fees and time?

As you are are a cash purchaser you have the choice not to have searches carried out although no solicitor would advise that you don't. Drawing on our experience of conveyancing in Timsbury the following are instances of issues that can show up and therefore affect future saleability: Refused Planning Applications, Outstanding Fees, Overdue Grants, Road Schemes,...

I used Arc property Solicitors several years ago for my conveyancing in Timsbury. I now require my papers but the law firm has closed. What do I do?

You should call the Solicitors Regulatory Authority (SRA) to assist in tracing your conveyancing files. They can be contacted on please contact on 0870 606 2555. Alternatively, you should use their online form to make an enquiry. You will need to provide the SRA with as much information as possible to assist their search, including the name and address in Timsbury of the conveyancing firm of solicitors you previously hired, the name of conveyancing solicitor with whom you had dealings, and the date on which you last had dealings with the firm.

I am buying a new build apartment in Timsbury. Conveyancing is daunting 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.

Set out below are examples of a few leasehold new build questions that you may expect your new-build leasehold conveyancing in Timsbury

Please supply a car parking plan. There must be mutual enforceability of lessee’s covenants. Will the freehold then be transferred for a nominal consideration (not exceeding £100) to the Management Company? 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. Where service of notices and proceedings can be at the property demised please confirm that this can be amended to include simultaneous services at the Lessees’ solicitors’ offices where the Lessee from time to time is not resident in the UK - such solicitors may be varied by notice in writing to the Landlord from time to time but otherwise will be as previously specified.

We're novice buyers - agreed a price, but the estate agent has warned us that the owners will only move forward if we appoint their chosen conveyancers as they need a ‘quick sale’. We would rather use a local conveyancer with experience of conveyancing in Timsbury

It is highly unlikely the owners are driving this. If they desire ‘a quick sale', alienating a genuine purchaser is going to damage their objectives. Avoid the agents and go straight to the sellers and explain that (a)you are serious buyers (b)you are excited to move forward, with finances in place © you do not need to sell (d) you wish to move quickly (e)however you will continue to use your own,trusted Timsbury conveyancing solicitors - not the ones that will earn the negotiator at the agency a kickback or achieve conveyancing figures pre-set by head office.