Having sold my house in Camden last April yet the purchaser is SMS messaging me complaining that her solicitor needs to hear from mysolicitor. What should have happened following completion?
Following your house sale your solicitor is obliged to deliver the transfer deeds and all supplemental paperwork to the buyer’s solicitors. If applicable, your conveyancer must also evidence that the legal charge in favour of the lender has been repaid to the buyers lawyers. There are no post completion tasks specific conveyancing in Camden.
Are the BSA intent on creating a online directory to to identify firms on the Loughborough BS conveyancing panel for instance in Camden?
Lexsure has not been advised of any intention on the part of the BSA to develop such a tool.
I was recommended by a couple of local estate agents in Camden to find a conveyancer using your seach tool. Is there a financial advantage for Estate Agents to recommend your lawyers ahead of a competitor’s?
We don’t make any commission for pointing buyers and sellers in our direction. We thought it would be too underhand to pay a commission because members of the public would think, ‘How come the agent getting a kickback? Why aren’t I receiving any benefit too?’ So we decided to step away from that.
Should I instruct a Camden conveyancing solicitor who is local to the property I am purchasing? An old friend can conduct the conveyancing but his firm is located approximately 350miles away.
The primary upside of using a high street Camden conveyancing practice is that you can pop in to sign documents, deliver your ID and apply pressure on them if necessary. They will also have local insight which is a benefit. That being said it's more important to get someone that will do a good and efficient job. If you know people who instructed your friend and they were content that should outweigh using an unfamiliar Camden conveyancing lawyer just because they are based in the area.
The lawyers handling our conveyancing in Camden has sent documents to review that show the land is unregistered with epitome documents. Why is the property not yet recorded at the Land Registry?
It is a rare occurrence indeed to find premises in Camden to be unregistered. An 'epitome' is basically a dossier of photocopies of documents affecting an unregistered title. Many Camden conveyancing practitioners will be able to handle this type of conveyancing but where uncertainty prevails the standard guidance nowadays seems to be for the seller to register the title first and then sell - this undoubtedly result in a significant delay.