Having sold my house in Carlton last July but my buyer keeps whats apping daily complaining that his solicitor is waiting to hear from mylawyer. What should have happened following completion?

After completion of your sale your lawyer should send the transfer deeds and all of the paperwork to the purchaser's lawyers. Where relevant, your lawyer should also send confirmation that the mortgage has been paid off to the purchasers lawyers. There is unlikely to be post completion requirements specific conveyancing in Carlton.

A friend suggested that where I am buying in Carlton I should carry out a Neighbourhood, Planning and Local Amenity Search. What does it cover?

This is a search is usually quoted for as part of the standard Carlton conveyancing searches. It is not a small document of more than thirty pages, listing and detailing significant information about Carlton around the property and the people living there. It incorporates an Aerial Photograph, Planning Applications, Land Use, Mobile Phone Masts, Rights of Way, the local Housing Market, Council Tax Banding, the type of People living in the area, the dominant type of Housing, the Average Property Price, Crime statistics, Carlton Education with plans and statistics, Local Amenities and other useful data concerning Carlton.

I am buying a new build house in Carlton with a mortgage from Platform Home Loans Ltd. The builders refused to reduce the price so I negotiated £7000 of additionals instead. The estate agent advised me not to tell my solicitor about this deal as it may affect my loan with the bank. Should I keep quiet?.

All lenders require a Disclosure of Incentives Form from the developer of any new build, converted or renovated property, It is available online from the Lenders’ Handbook page on the CML website. CML form is completed and handed to the lender's surveyor when the inspection is done.

Lenders have different policies on incentives. Some accept none at all, cash or physical, while others will accept cash incentives up to 5%.

Hard to understand why the representative of a builder would be suggesting you withold information from a solicitor when all this will be clearly visible on forms the builder has to supply to its solicitor, the buyer's solicitor and the surveyor.

I opted to have a survey carried out on a house in Carlton in advance of instructing lawyers. I have been advised that there is a flying freehold aspect to the house. Our surveyor has said that some mortgage companies tend not give a loan on such a house.

It varies from the lender to lender. HSBC has different instructions for example to Halifax. Should you wish to call us we can check via the relevant bank. If you lender is happy to lend one our lawyers can help as they are used to dealing with flying freeholds in Carlton. Conveyancing can be more complicated and therefore you should check with your conveyancing solicitor in Carlton to see if the conveyancing costs will increase in light of this.

My sister purchased her house in Carlton 7 years ago. She has since got married, widowed and in recent months got remarried. She wishes to sell the house in a few weeks. I suspect that she will simply be requested to provide a copy of her marriage certificates to the conveyancer however she is anxious it could hold up the conveyancing. Should she instruct a lawyer to update the Land Registry information for the house?

It is not absolutely necessary to bring up to date the title for the property providing you have the proof required to show how the name change occurred.

Any buyer’s lawyer will check the title entries and request evidence by way of proof of the change of name e.g. marriage certificates.