The property market in Brunswick Park is hotting up. What can be done to speed up the buying process?

First, If you are under pressure for your conveyancing we would recommend that your conveyancer is familiar with the area as they will benefit local contacts and intelligence. It is even conceivable that they would have handled previoushomes in the same street. Therefore consider using a Brunswick Park conveyancing firm. Second, be sure that the conveyancing firm is on the on the approved list for your mortgage company. It is understood that just under twenty per cent of Brunswick Park conveyancing deals are held up or jeopardised after finding out that a buyer’s conveyancer was not on their banks member panel. In many cases this discovery resulted in the home move being delayed by as much as 21 days. It is said that this issue impacts in the region of 100,000 home moves annually. Most Brunswick Park conveyancing practices can not represent certain mortgage companies so do check as early as possible.

I am the registered owner of a freehold house in Brunswick Park but still charged rent, why is this and what is this?

It’s unusual for properties in Brunswick Park and has limited impact for conveyancing in Brunswick Park but some freehold properties in England (particularly common in North West England) pay an annual sum known as a Chief Rent or a Rentcharge to a third party who has no other legal interest in the land.

Rentcharge payments are usually between £2.00 and £5.00 per year. Rentcharges date back many centuries, but the Rent Charge Act 1977 barred the establishment of new rentcharges from 1977 onwards.

Old rentcharges can now be redeemed by making a lump sum payment under the Act. Any rentcharges that are still in existence in 2037 is to be dispensed with completely.

I used Stirling Law a few years past for my conveyancing in Brunswick Park. I now require my file however the law firm has closed. What do I do?

You should contact the Solicitors Regulatory Authority (SRA) to help locate your conveyancing files. They can be contacted on please contact on 0870 606 2555. Alternatively, you should use their online form to make an enquiry. You will need to provide the SRA with as much information as possible to assist their search, including the name and address in Brunswick Park of the conveyancing firm of solicitors you previously used, the name of conveyancing solicitor with whom you had dealings, and the date on which you last had dealings with the firm.

I've recently found out that there is a flying freehold element on a house I put an offer in two weeks back in what was supposed to be a quick, no chain conveyancing. Brunswick Park is where the house is located. What do you suggest?

Flying freeholds in Brunswick Park are rare but are more likely to exist in relation to terraced houses. Even though you don't necessarily need a conveyancing solicitor in Brunswick Park you would need to get your solicitor to go through the deeds very carefully. Your lender may require your conveyancing solicitor to take out an indemnity policy. Some of the more diligent conveyancing solicitors in Brunswick Park 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.

My husband and I are new on the property ladder - had an offer accepted, yet the selling agent told us that the seller will only proceed if we appoint the agent's chosen conveyancers as they need an ‘expedited deal’. My instinct tells me that we should use a high street solicitor used to conveyancing in Brunswick Park

We suspect that the seller is not behind this ultimatum. If they require ‘a quick sale', alienating a serious purchaser is is going to put the whole deal at risk. Avoid the agents and go straight to the owners and explain that (a)you are keen to buy (b)you are ready to go, with mortgage lined up © you are chain free (d) you intend to proceed fast (e)but you intend to appoint your preferred Brunswick Park conveyancing solicitors - not the ones that will earn the estate agent a introducer fee or meet his conveyancing thresholds set by senior management.