What is the optimal method for finding a leasehold conveyancing in Covent Garden?

First ask your friends and family who they would recommend.

Second, search the web for conveyancing in Covent Garden. Pick up the phone to a couple or more firms from the list and request that they forward you their conveyancing quote and have a conversation with the lawyer who will oversee your legal process ahead ofmaking your choice.

Option 3 is to use our search tool to assist you in finding the right solicitors for you based on your own factors including the type of property,deadlines, complications and who your intended lender is. Avoid the trap of appointing low cost conveyancing in Covent Garden

Would the conveyancing lawyers that you recommend conduct auction conveyancing in Covent Garden?

There are a few auction practitioners we can connect you with those conducting auction conveyancing. Covent Garden is one of hundreds of areas of in which our lawyers cover.

What is the difference between a licensed conveyancer and conveyancing solicitor in Covent Garden

Two types of professional can perform conveyancing in Covent Garden namely CLC regulated conveyancers or solicitors. The two can administer conveyancing services that required to complete the disposal or acquisition of property. They are both obliged to carry out Covent Garden conveyancing to the same quality and guidelines so you may be sure that your conveyancing will be properly administered and that all requirements and steps will be correctly followed.

Have just purchased a repossessed house at auction in Covent Garden. Conveyancing is needed. What happens now?

Given that you have now to in every practical sense signed on the dotted line you must find a conveyancing lawyer as a matter of urgency as you now have a tight deadline in which to complete the transaction. All auction property should have an associated legal set of papers. This will likely include evidence of title and search results. In the case of leasehold premises the legal papers may contain a copy of the lease, management information and a sellers leasehold information form and other conveyancing documentation pertinent to a leasehold property. You should pass this on to the lawyer working for you ASAP. Do make sure that you have funds organised to complete the transaction on the set completion date.

It is unclear whether my bank obliges me to make sure the lease term for the flat is extended prior to the completion date. I have called my Covent Garden building society branch on numerous occasions and was advised it wasn't a problem and they would lend. My Covent Garden conveyancing solicitor - who is on the mortgage company conveyancing panel- telephoned to say that they will not lend in accordance with their published requirements. I simply don't know who is right.

Provided that the conveyancer is on the mortgage company approved list, they must follow the Council of Mortgage Lenders’ Handbook provisions for the lender. Unless your lawyer obtains specific confirmation in writing that the lender will go ahead, your lawyer has no choice but to refrain from exchanging contract and committing you to the purchase. We would suggest that you ask the bank to contact your lawyer in writing confirming that they will accept the number of years left on the lease.

I used Action Conveyancing a few years ago for my conveyancing in Covent Garden. I now require my file but the law firm is no longer operating. What do I do?

You should contact the Solicitors Regulatory Authority (SRA) to help locate your conveyancing files. They can be contacted on please contact on 0870 606 2555. Alternatively, you should use their online form to make an enquiry. You will need to provide the SRA with as much information as possible to assist their search, including the name and address in Covent Garden of the conveyancing firm of solicitors you previously instructed, the name of conveyancing solicitor with whom you had dealings, and the date on which you last had dealings with the firm.

I’m about to sell my ground floor apartment in Covent Garden.Conveyancing is yet to be initiated but I have just received a half-yearly maintenance charge invoice – what should I do?

It best that you clear the maintenance contribution as usual because all ground rent and maintenance payments should be allottedon completion, so you will be reimbursed by the buyer for the period running from after the completion date to the next payment date. Most management companies will not acknowledge the buyer until the service charges have been paid and are up to date so it is important for both buyer and seller for the seller to show that they are up to date. This will smooth the conveyancing process