My wife and I are planning to acquire a property in Bridgwater and are in fact using a Bridgwater conveyancing practice. Within the last couple of days our property lawyer has forwarded the sale agreement to be signed with a detailed report in anticipation of exchanging contracts shortly. Nottingham Building Society have this afternoon contacted us to advise us that they have now hit a problem as our Bridgwater lawyer is not on their approved list of lawyers. Is this a problem?
Where you are buying a property requiring a mortgage it is standard for the purchasers' lawyers to also act for the mortgage company. In order to act for a bank or building society a law firm has to be on that lender's conveyancing panel. An application has to be made by the law firm to the lender to become a member of the lender's panel and there are increasingly strict criteria which the firm has to satisfy and indeed some lenders now require their panel members to be part of the Law Society’s Conveyancing Quality Scheme. Your solicitor should contact your mortgage company and see if they can apply for membership of their conveyancing panel, but if that is not viable they will instruct their own solicitors to act. You don't have to instruct a firm on the lender’s conveyancing panel as you are at liberty to use your preferred Bridgwater lawyers, in which case it will likely add costs, and it may delay matters as you are adding another lawyer into the mix.
My fiance and I are hoping to buy a purpose built flat in Bridgwater with a homeloan from Britannia.We would like to retain our Bridgwater conveyancing solicitor but Britannia says his firm is not listed on their approved list of member firms. we are left little option but to use a Britannia panel lawyer or keep our local solicitor and fork out for one of their panel ones to represent them. This seems very unfair; Can we not simply insist that Britannia use our lawyer?
Unfortunately,no. The loan issued to you is subject to its various provisions, one of which will be that conveyancers will be on the Britannia solicitor panel. Until recently, most lenders had large numbers of law firms 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 solicitors to apply to be on the conveyancing panel for Britannia
I am looking for a ground for flat up to £245,000 and found one near me in Bridgwater I like with open areas and transport links in the vicinity, the downside is that it's only got 61 remaining years left on the lease. I can't really find anything else in Bridgwater suitable, so just wondered if I would be making a grave error buying a short lease?
Should you require a home loan the remaining unexpired lease term will be an issue. Discount the offer by the anticipated lease extension will cost if not already taken into account. If the existing owner has owned the premises for at least twenty four months you could ask them to commence the lease extension formalities and then assign 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 lawyer about this matter.
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In sourcing the world wide web for the words on line conveyancing in Bridgwater it reveals many conveyancersin the area. With so much choice what is the best way to find the right conveyancing solicitor for the sale of my house?
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