Completed the sale of my flat in Clifton Village last June yet the purchaser is e-mailing me complaining that her conveyancer needs to hear from myconveyancer. What are the post completion sale formalities now that I have sold?
Following your house sale your solicitor is duty bound to deliver the transfer documentation and all of the paperwork to the buyer’s conveyancer. Depending on the transaction, your lawyer must also confirm that the home loan has been discharged to the purchasers conveyancers. There is unlikely to be post completion formalities unique to conveyancing in Clifton Village.
I am helping my step-mother sell her property in Clifton Village. Will the solicitor arrange the energy assessment or should I organise this?
Following the abolition of Home Information Packs, energy assessments was kept a required part of selling a property. An EPC should be to hand in advance of the property being advertised. This is not a task that lawyers normally arrange. Where you are using a Clifton Village conveyancing practitioner they may be able to arrange energy performance certificates given their contacts with long established Clifton Village accredited person
We have a mortgage agreed in principle with Nationwide. Clifton Village conveyancing solicitors were instructed. How long does it take for Nationwide to issue the offer to the solicitor?
Some lenders take longer than others. Have Nationwide conducted the survey? Have you advised Nationwide as to your lawyers' details and checked that your lawyers are on the Nationwide conveyancing panel? It is not unusual for a mortgage offer to take a month to come through.
Leeds Building Society have agreed my home loan in principle, my offer on a flat in Clifton Village has been accepted, now what?
Your estate agent will need to know who your solicitors are (ensure that the property lawyers are on the bank’s panel). Telephone Leeds Building Society or your financial adviser and complete any relevant forms. Leeds Building Society will instruct a valuer who will get in touch with the selling agent or seller to arrange a time for the valuation to occur. Once conducted (assuming no problems) it takes on average a week for the mortgage offer to be issued. Leeds Building Society will issue the offer to you and your conveyancing practitioners. The transaction will then take it’s course according the nature and complexity of the conveyancing in Clifton Village.
What can a local search tell me about the house my wife and I purchasing in Clifton Village?
Clifton Village conveyancing often commences with the submitting local authority searches directly from your local Authority or through a personal search organisations such as Searchflow The local search is essential in every Clifton Village conveyancing purchase; as long as you wish to avoid any nasty surprises after you move into your new home. The search should reveal data on, amongst other things, details on planning applications relevant to the property (whether granted or refused), building control history, any enforcement action, restrictions on permitted development, nearby road schemes, contaminated land and radon gas; in all a total of thirteen subject areas.
I have todaydiscovered that Arc property Solicitors have been shut down. They carried out my conveyancing in Clifton Village for a purchase of a freehold house 9 months ago. How can I check that the property is in my name in the name of the previous owner?
The easiest method to see if the property is in your name, you can carry out a search of the land registry (£3.00). You can either do this yourself or ask a law firm to do this for you. If you are not registered you can seek help from one of a number of Clifton Village conveyancing specialists.
Is it best to appoint a Clifton Village conveyancing practitioner in close proximity to the house I am hoping to buy? We have a good friend who can conduct the conveyancing but her office is over three hundred miles away.
The primary upside of using a local Clifton Village conveyancing firm is that you can drop in to sign paperwork, deliver your identification documents and pester them where appropriate. They will also have local intelligence which is a bonus. However it's more important to get someone that will do a good and efficient job. If if people you trust used your friend and they were impressed that should surpass using an unknown Clifton Village conveyancing solicitor solely due to them being local.