We were about to instruct a conveyancing solicitor in Clayton listed using your comparison tool but have come across some other fee calculations on the internet seem cheaper – why is this?

One can find many firms of solicitors advertising what appear to be cut price. Our recommendation is to give due consideration as to how much you respect your own move to want to take 'cheap' risks over the quality of the conveyancing. Many of them accentuate a bargain quote to tempt you but hide additional fees in the fine print..

I require conveyancing for a flat in a relatively new development (five years built) in Clayton. 95% of the appartments have already been disposed of. Do I need carry out the local searches as part of conveyancing in Clayton?

Where you are obtaining a loan, your mortgage company will insist on some (many) of the searches so you'll have no choice. If not, then Clayton conveyancing searches are optional. No doubt your conveyancer, will ’encourage’, perhaps in the strongest possible terms, that you should have the searches done, but he or she has a professional duty to do this. One thing to bear in mind; if you are likely to sell the house one day, it may be of interest to your future buyer what the searches contain. Sometimes houses with no practical issues can still throw up adverse search results. But if you insist that your lawyer to proceed without searches then your lawyer will have to follow your instructions or you will need to swap to another solicitor for your conveyancing in Clayton.

We are buying a house and the solicitor has referenced Chancel Repair for which the house could be liable because it falls into the area of such a church. She has suggested insurance. Is this strictly necessary for conveyancing in Clayton

Unless a prior purchase of the premises took place after 12 October 2013 you could take it that lawyers handling conveyancing in Clayton to remain encouraging a chancel search and or insurance against a claim.

What tools are available to identify a Clayton law firm on the Accord Mortgages Ltd conveyancing panel? I am a keen cyclist and am happy to travel upto 25miles to meet the solicitor.

Feel free to make use of the search on this page. Please choose the bank and your location and you will see a number of Clayton conveyancing lawyers locally. We have listed some Clayton conveyancing firms towards the end of this page and you can ring them to verify if they are on the Accord Mortgages Ltd approved list

Frank (my husband) and I may need to let out our Clayton basement flat for a while due to taking a sabbatical. We instructed a Clayton conveyancing practice in 2003 but they have since shut and we did not think at the time get any advice as to whether the lease permits subletting. How do we find out?

The lease dictates relations between the landlord and you the flat owner; in particular, it will say if subletting is banned, or permitted but only subject to certain caveats. The rule is that if the lease contains no specific ban or restriction, subletting is permitted. The majority of leases in Clayton do not prevent subletting altogether – such a provision would undoubtedly devalue the property. In most cases there is simply a requirement that the owner notifies the freeholder, possibly supplying a duplicate of the sublease.

I acquired a 1 bedroom flat in Clayton, conveyancing having been completed March 2009. Can you shed any light on how much the price could be for a 90 year extension to my lease? Similar properties in Clayton with a long lease are worth £216,000. The average or mid-range amount of ground rent is £50 invoiced annually. The lease terminates on 21st October 2094

You have 69 years left to run the likely cost is going to be between £9,500 and £11,000 as well as costs.

The suggested premium range above a general guide to costs for renewing a lease, but we are not able to supply the actual costs in the absence of comprehensive due diligence. You should not use this information in tribunal or court proceedings. There are no doubt other issues that need to be considered and you obviously want to be as accurate as possible in your negotiations. Neither should you move forward placing reliance on this information before getting professional advice.