Will conveyancers request an advanced payment when it comes to conveyancing in Beacon Hill?

Where you are retaining lawyers for conveyancing in Beacon Hill your solicitor will ask you place them with funds to cover the search fees. Generally this is requested to cover the fees of the Local Authority Search. If any deposit is as part of the total price then this should be required shortly ahead of contracts are exchanged. Any further balance that is due should be transferred shortly before completion.

we are a couple who decided to purchase a newbuild flat in Beacon Hill with a residential mortgage from Skipton Building Society.We use our Beacon Hill conveyancing lawyer but Skipton Building Society informed us his firm is not listed on their "panel". We have to appoint a Skipton Building Society panel firm or keep our preferred solicitor and fork out for one of their panel ones to represent them. This seems very unfair; Can we not simply insist that Skipton Building Society use our lawyer?

Unfortunately,no. The mortgage issued to you is subject to its various provisions, one of which will be that lawyers must be on the Skipton Building Society conveyancing panel. in the past, most lenders had large numbers of solicitors on their panels: a borrower could find one for themselves, as long as it was on the lender's panel. The lender would then simply instruct the borrower's lawyers to act for the lender, too. You can use your lender's panel lawyers or you could borrow from another lender which does not restrict your choice. Another option that might be available is for your lawyer to apply to be on the conveyancing panel for Skipton Building Society

A relative suggested that if I am buying in Beacon Hill I should ask my conveyancer to perform a Neighbourhood, Planning and Local Amenity Search. What does it cover?

A search of this type is sometimes quoted for as part of the standard Beacon Hill conveyancing searches. It is a large document of about 40 pages, listing and setting out significant information about Beacon Hill around the property and the people living there. It includes an Aerial Photograph, Planning Applications, Land Use, Mobile Phone Masts, Rights of Way, the Beacon Hill Housing Market, Council Tax Banding, the demographics of People living in the area, the dominant type of Housing, the Average Property Price, Crime statistics, Beacon Hill Education with maps and statistics, Local Amenities and other useful data regarding Beacon Hill.

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Having had my offer accepted I require leasehold conveyancing in Beacon Hill. Before I get started I want to be sure as to the number of years remaining on the lease.

Assuming the lease is registered - and 99.9% are in Beacon Hill - then the leasehold title will always include the basic details of the lease, namely the date; the term; and the original parties. From a conveyancing perspective such details then enable any prospective buyer and lender to confirm that any lease they are looking at is the one relevant to that title. For any other purpose, such as confirming how long the term was granted for and calculating what is left, then the register should be sufficient on it's own.

I inherited a split level flat in Beacon Hill, conveyancing having been completed February 2006. Can you work out an approximate cost of a lease extension? Similar properties in Beacon Hill with a long lease are worth £265,000. The ground rent is £50 invoiced annually. The lease runs out on 21st October 2101

You have 76 years left to run we estimate the price of your lease extension to span between £8,600 and £9,800 as well as plus your own and the landlord's "reasonable" professional fees.

The suggested premium range that we have given is a general guide to costs for extending a lease, but we cannot give you a more accurate figure without more detailed due diligence. Do not use the figures in tribunal or court proceedings. There may be other issues that need to be considered and you obviously should be as accurate as possible in your negotiations. Neither should you take any other action placing reliance on this information without first getting professional advice.