Recently been in touch with my conveyancing lawyer in Bolton who conducted the legals 18 months ago and wanted a conveyancing quote based on the same type of home move (a leasehold property and a freehold property) of almost identical values with a home loan from Barnsley Building Society. I am now being quoted twice the amount. Am I right to be tempted to shop around for an alternative firm of conveyancing solicitor?
The costs illustration is slightly on the high side. If you shop around you might trim some of the expense by as much as a hundred pounds. That being said, providing that you were content with the assistance the firm offered you couldlive to rue choosing an an untested solicitor. If is important to check that the firm can act for Barnsley Building Society. Do employ our search tool to get a quote a Bolton conveyancing firm on the Barnsley Building Society approved list of lawyers, which can often include conveyancing solicitors in Bolton.
Do the conveyancing practitioners listed on your site perform right to buy conveyancing in Bolton?
We work with a number of conveyancing conveyancers carrying out right to buy transactions You should get in touch with us to secure a costs illustration.
Having sold my house in Bolton last October yet the purchaser is texting every few hours to say her conveyancer needs to hear from mine. What should have happened following completion?
After completion of your sale your solicitor is duty bound to send the transfer deeds and all additional paperwork to the purchaser's lawyers. Depending on the transaction, your conveyancer should also evidence that the legal charge in favour of the lender has been paid off to the purchasers conveyancers. There are no post completion procedures just for conveyancing in Bolton.
I bought my flat on 12 March and my personal details is yet to be registered. Should I be concerned? My conveyancing solicitor in Bolton advises it should be recorded inside ten days. Are transfers in Bolton uniquely lengthy to register?
As far as conveyancing in Bolton is concerned, registration is no faster or slower than anywhere else in the country. As opposed to being determined by geographic area, timescales can adjust depending on who lodges the application, whether there are errors and whether the Land registry need to notify any other persons or bodies. At present in the region of 80% of submission are fully addressed in less than three weeks but some can be subject to protracted hold-ups. Historically registration takes place once the buyer is living at the premises so post completion formalities is not typically an essential issue but where it is urgent that the the registration takes place urgently then you or your lawyers could speak with the land registry and explain the circumstances.
My 20yr old son is just in the process of moving house, the home loan was agreed last week in principle. After the seller agreed the offer on the house we rang the mortgage institution to progress the mortgage application. I was shocked to hear that mortgage companies do not accept all lawyer, they have to be on a list, is this legal?
Banks ordinarily imposes restrictions either the type or the number of conveyancing solicitors on their panel. Typical examples of such restriction(s) being that a firm must have two or more partners. In addition to restricting the type of firm, some have decided to limit the number of firms they use to represent them. You should note that lenders have no responsibility for the quality of advice provided by any Bolton conveyancer on their panel. Mortgage fraud was a key driver in the rationalisation of conveyancing panels a few years ago and whilst there are differing views about the extent of solicitor involvement in some of that fraud. Statistics from the Land Registry reveal that thousands of law firms only carry out one or two conveyances a year. Those supporting conveyancing panel cuts ask why law firms should have the right to be on a Lender panel when clearly, conveyancing is not their speciality. To put it another way; would you want a conveyancing solicitor to represent you if you were charged with a crime? Presumably not.