Our family solicitor has sent a quote for £1700 for freehold conveyancing in Anstey. I am selling a Georgian property for £125,000. This seems too much. Is it in excess of what I should be paying for conveyancing in Anstey?

The estimate does seem marginally overpriced. If you shop around you may be able to get the conveyancing a bit cheaper by perhaps a hundred pounds. On the other hand, you maylive to rue choosing an an unknown conveyancer. Remember to enquire the firm can represent your mortgage company. Do employ our search tool to locate a Anstey conveyancing firm on the lender’s approved list of lawyers which can often include conveyancing solicitors in Anstey.

My relative suggested that where I am purchasing in Anstey I should carry out a Neighbourhood, Planning and Local Amenity Search. What does it cover?

This is a search is usually included in the estimate for your Anstey conveyancing searches. It is a large document of more than thirty pages, listing and setting out significant information about Anstey around the property and the people living there. It incorporates an Aerial Photograph, Planning Applications, Land Use, Mobile Phone Masts, Rights of Way, the local Housing Market, Council Tax Banding, the type of People living in the area, the dominant type of Housing, the Average House Prices, Crime statistics, Local Education with maps and statistics, Local Amenities and other useful information about Anstey.

The deeds to my home are lost. The solicitors who conducted the conveyancing in Anstey 4 years ago have long since closed. Will I be able to sell the house?

Nowadays there are copies made of almost everything, and your conveyancer should know exactly where to find all the appropriate paperwork so you may buy or sell your house without any difficulty. If copies are not available, your solicitor may be able to arrange cover in the form of insurance or indemnities protecting you against possible claims on your property.

I have been on the look out for a ground for flat up to £195,000 and identified one close by in Anstey I like with amenity areas and transport links in the vicinity, however it only has 52 remaining years left on the lease. There is not much else in Anstey in this price bracket, so just wondered if I would be making a grave error purchasing a short lease?

If you need a mortgage the shortness of the lease may be problematic. Discount the offer by the anticipated lease extension will cost if it has not already been discounted. If the existing proprietor has owned the premises for at least twenty four months you could request that they commence the lease extension formalities and pass it to you. An additional ninety years can be extended on to the existing lease term with a zero ground rent applied. You should consult your conveyancing solicitor regarding this matter.

My husband and I are disposing of a Anstey house left to us some years ago in 2009. I have over a decades worth of conveyancing knowledge and, now retired, see no reason not to conduct the conveyancing. The buyer's property lawyer has informed me that their building society will not allow us to do our own conveyancing insisting the funds to be released via a solicitor's bank account.

Mortgage instructions to conveyancers from all mainstream lenders specify that If the vendor is not legally represented the buyer’s lawyers should check whether the bank needs to be told so that a decision can be reached if they are willing to progress.