Finally the sale completed on my house in Brackla last September but the buyer keeps SMS messaging daily to say their lawyer is waiting to hear from mine. What should my lawyer have done following completion?

Following your sale your conveyancer is obliged to send the transfer documentation and all additional paperwork to the purchaser's conveyancer. If applicable, your solicitor must also evidence that the home loan has been paid off to the purchasers solicitors. There are no post completion tasks peculiar conveyancing in Brackla.

A friend suggested that if I am purchasing in Brackla I should ask my conveyancer to perform a Neighbourhood, Planning and Local Amenity Search. What does it cover?

A search of this type is occasionally included in the estimate for your Brackla conveyancing searches. It is not a small report of more than thirty pages, listing and setting out important information about Brackla around the property and the people living there. It includes an Aerial Photograph, Planning Applications, Land Use, Mobile Phone Masts, Rights of Way, the Brackla Housing Market, Council Tax Banding, the type of People living in the area, the dominant type of Housing, the Average Property Price, Crime details, Local Education with plans and statistics, Local Amenities and other useful information concerning Brackla.

I have recentlydiscovered that Arc property Solicitors have been shut down. They conducted my conveyancing in Brackla for a purchase of a leasehold apartment 18 months ago. How can I check that the property is in my name in the name of the former proprietor?

The easiest way to check if the premises is registered to you, you can carry out a search of the land registry (£3.00). You can either do this yourself or ask a law firm to do this for you. If you are not registered you can seek help from one of a number of Brackla conveyancing specialists.

I am buying a new build apartment in Brackla. Conveyancing is necessary evil at the best of times but I have never purchased a new build flat before. What sort of enquires would be asked in new build legal work.

Here are examples of a few leasehold new build questions that you may expect your new-build leasehold conveyancing in Brackla

Please supply evidence that the form of Lease proposed has been approved by the Land Registry. Where there is an Undertaking being granted there is the risk of forfeiture of the Headlease subject to relief if one or more of the Underlessees are willing to accept the original Head Lessee’s obligations as otherwise relief will be denied to the Underlessees. The only alternatives are the Head Lessor agreeing not to forfeit the Headlease or the Head Lessee guaranteeing to the Underlessees that it will not be in breach of the Headlease. Investor purchasers must be able to freely grant unsecured tenancies at market rents without requiring any consents. Please supply a car parking plan.

As co-executor for the will of my grandmother I am selling a property in Neath but reside in Brackla. My solicitor (approximately 260 kilometers awayrequires that I execute a stat dec prior to the transaction finalising. Can you recommend a conveyancing solicitor in Brackla who can attest and place their company stamp on the document?

strictly speaking you are unlikely to be required to have the documents witnessed by a conveyancing solicitor. Normally or notary public or qualified solicitor will do regardless of whether they are based in Brackla