Our family lawyer has given a fee estimate £1200 for leasehold conveyancing in Calne. I am selling a Georgian property for £225,000. This appears expensive. Is it in excess of the average fee for conveyancing in Calne?

The charges are a tad high. If you shop around you may be able to reduce the fees slightly by perhaps £100 plus VAT. That being said, you maycome to rue choosing an an unknown conveyancer. Don't forget to be sure that the firm can act for your lender. Do use our comparison tool to locate a Calne conveyancing company on the banks approved list of lawyers which can often include conveyancing solicitors in Calne.

I used Arc property Solicitors several years past for my conveyancing in Calne. Now, I need my documents but the law firm is no longer operating. What do I do?

Do call the Solicitors Regulatory Authority (SRA) to assist in tracing 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 Calne of the conveyancing firm of solicitors you previously hired, the name of conveyancing solicitor with whom you had dealings, and the date on which you last had dealings with the firm.

Is it possible to swap conveyancer as I have to choose a firm on the Norwich and Peterborough Building Society conveyancing list. I had appointed a high street conveyancing solicitor in Calne five minutes from me but he is not accepted by Norwich and Peterborough Building Society

We will our best to assist in finding you a conveyancing solicitor in Calne on the Norwich and Peterborough Building Society panel. Please note that the property lawyers that we work with do not pay us commission if you instruct them and are registered with the Solicitors Regulation Authority who oversee all conveyancing solicitors in Calne. Using search facility on this website, you can compare and instruct different solicitors and conveyancers both nationally and in Calne.

As co-executor for the will of my aunt I am disposing of a house in Monmouth but I am based in Calne. My conveyancer (who is 235 miles awayhas requested that I execute a stat dec before the transaction finalising. Could you suggest a conveyancing practitioner in Calne who can attest and place their company stamp on the document?

Technically speaking you are not likely to need to have the documents witnessed by a conveyancing solicitor. Ordinarily any notary public or qualified solicitor will suffice regardless of whether they are located in Calne

Do you have any advice for leasehold conveyancing in Calne from the perspective of expediting the sale process?

• Much of the frustration in leasehold conveyancing in Calne can be avoided where you instruct lawyers as soon as you market your property and request that they start to collate the leasehold information needed by the purchasers’ conveyancers.
If you are supposed to have a share in the freehold, you should ensure that you hold the original share certificate. Arranging a new share certificate is often a time consuming formality and delays many a Calne conveyancing transaction. Where a duplicate share certificate is needed, you should approach the company officers or managing agents (where applicable) for this as soon as possible. If there is a history of conflict with your landlord or managing agents it is very important that these are settled before the property is marketed. The buyers and their solicitors will be reluctant to purchase a flat where there is an ongoing dispute. You may have to bite the bullet and pay any arrears of service charge or settle the dispute prior to completion of the sale. It is therefore preferable to have any dispute settled prior to the contract papers being issued to the buyers’ solicitors. You are still duty bound to disclose details of the dispute to the purchasers, but it is clearly preferable to reveal the dispute as over rather than unresolved. Some Calne leases require Landlord’s consent to the sale and approval of the buyers. If this applies to your lease, it would be prudent to place the estate agents on notice to make sure that the purchasers put in hand financial (bank) and professional references. Any bank reference will need to confirm that the buyers are financially capable of paying the annual service charge and the actual amount of the service charge should be quoted in the bank’s letter. You will therefore need to provide your estate agents with the service charge figures so that they can pass this information on to the purchasers or their solicitors. Many freeholders or Management Companies in Calne levy fees for supplying management packs for a leasehold home. You or your lawyers should find out the fee that they propose to charge. The management information sought as soon as you have a buyer, thus reducing delays. The average time it takes to receive management information is three weeks. It is the most usual cause of frustration in leasehold conveyancing in Calne.

Calne Leasehold Conveyancing - Examples of Questions you should ask Prior to buying

What is the name of the managing agents? Where a Calne lease has less than 80 years it will have adverse implications on the value of the property. Check with your mortgage company that they are willing to lend given the lease term. Leases with less than 80 years remaining means that you will probably have to extend the lease at some point and it is worth finding out how much this would cost. Remember, in most cases you will be required to have owned the property for 24 months in order to be legally able to extend the lease.