I was recommended to a lawyer who has given a fee calculation of £1200 for leasehold conveyancing in Chalfont St Peter. I’m selling a Georgian detached home for £250,000. Are the quoted fees excessive? Is it above the norm for conveyancing in Chalfont St Peter?

The costs illustration is slightly on the expensive side. If you shop around you might get the conveyancing a bit cheaper by perhaps £100 plus VAT. On the other hand, you mightlive to regret choosing an an untested conveyancer. Don't forget to be sure the solicitor can also act for your lender. Do use our search tool to locate a Chalfont St Peter conveyancing company on the lender’s member panel which can often include conveyancing solicitors in Chalfont St Peter.

IfI was to purchase a straightforward propertyin Chalfont St Peter mortgage fee and dispense with a survey and no conveyancing searches how much would I expect to have to pay for conveyancing in Chalfont St Peter?

Any savings you would achieve would be isolated to the Chalfont St Peter conveyancing searches. Your conveyancing practitioner still be obliged to do everything else - money laundering, liaising with your vendors solicitor, stamp duty submission, register the property etc. A marginal saving might be made by not needing to register a charge however it will not be meaningful.

Do conveyancers ask for money up-front for conveyancing in Chalfont St Peter?

Where you are retaining lawyers for conveyancing in Chalfont St Peter your solicitor will ask you put them with funds to cover the the cost of the conveyancing searches. This will be the total of the cost of the Local Authority Search. If any deposit is as part of the total price then this will be required shortly ahead of exchange of contracts. The closing balance that is needed should be transferred a few days ahead of the day of completion.

My aunt passed away 10 months ago and as sole heir and executor I was left the house in Chalfont St Peter. The house had a small mortgage left on it of around £4500. I want to have the title changed into my name whilst I re-mortgage to HSBC, pay off the mortgage. Is this possible?

Given you plan to refinance then HSBC will require that you use a conveyancer on the HSBC conveyancing panel. Here is link to the Land Registry online guidance around what to do when a property owner dies. This will help you to understand the registration process behind changing the details re the registered title. in your case it would appear that you are effectively purchasing the property from the estate. Your HSBC conveyancing panel solicitor pays the new mortgage money into the estate, the estate pays off the old mortgage, the charge is released and you become the owner and the HSBC mortgage is registered as a charge at the Land Registry.

I purchased a flat in Chalfont St Peter last 23/1/2023 and to date it is still not recorded with the Land Registry. It is part of a development site and my solicitor told me that it may take 12 months to register. I have called HMLR directly and they have informed me the original application was cancelled due to failure to reply to requisitions. Do I need to be concerned?

Call your property lawyer - Where you are unsatisfied with the responses, find out about their internal complaints process and escalate your concerns to a Complaints Manager. Registrations for Chalfont St Peter conveyancing are not known to be significantly delayed.