Having sold my house in Bearsted last August but our buyer keeps texting daily to moan that her solicitor needs to hear from mylawyer. What should have happened following completion?

After completion of your sale your lawyer should send the transfer documentation and all of the paperwork to the purchaser's solicitors. If applicable, your lawyer must also confirm that the mortgage has been paid off to the buyers conveyancers. There are no post completion formalities peculiar conveyancing in Bearsted.

I'm purchasing my first flat in Bearsted with the aid of help to buy. The developers would not move on the price so I negotiated five thousand pounds worth of extras instead. The estate agent suggested that I not to tell my solicitor about this deal as it may jeopardize my mortgage with the lender. Should I keep quiet?.

All lenders require a Disclosure of Incentives Form from the developer of any new build, converted or renovated property, It is available online from the Lenders’ Handbook page on the CML website. CML form is completed and handed to the lender's surveyor when the inspection is done.

Lenders have different policies on incentives. Some accept none at all, cash or physical, while others will accept cash incentives up to 5%.

Hard to understand why the representative of a builder would be suggesting you withold information from a solicitor when all this will be clearly visible on forms the builder has to supply to its solicitor, the buyer's solicitor and the surveyor.

Yesterday I discovered that there is a flying freehold element on a house I have offered on two weeks back in what should have been a simple, no chain conveyancing. Bearsted is the location of the property. Can you offer any assistance?

Flying freeholds in Bearsted are rare but are more likely to exist in relation to terraced houses. Even though you don't necessarily need a conveyancing solicitor in Bearsted you must be sure that your lawyer goes through the deeds thoroughly. Your lender may require your conveyancing solicitor to take out an indemnity policy. Some of the more diligent conveyancing solicitors in Bearsted may decide that this is not enough and that the deeds be re-written to give you the most up to date legal protection. If so, the next door neighbour also had to sign up to the revised deeds.It is possible that your lender will not accept the situation so the sooner you find out the better. You should also check with your insurance broker as to whether they will insure a flying freehold premises.

Taking into account that I will soon part with over three hundred thousand on a garden flat in Bearsted I would like to talk to a lawyer about mytransaction ahead of instructing the firm. Is this something that you can arrange?

We could not agree more - we would be pleased to talk to you we do not take any clients on without you first talking to the lawyer due to be doing your property ownership legalities in Bearsted.There is no ‘factory style conveyancing’ - each client is an important person, not a file number. The solicitors that we put you in touch with believe that the fees you are calculated and presented to you for residential conveyancing in Bearsted should be the figure that you end up paying.

Finally our conveyancing in Bearsted is set to complete this Friday, but the owners I am purchasing from wishes to move out 24 hours later at noon. Should I accept such a idea?

You can't complete on a Saturday because the bank systems aren't operational.