Completed the sale of my flat in Devon last October but our buyer keeps whats apping every few hours to moan that his conveyancer is waiting to hear from myconveyancer. What should have happened now that I have sold?

After completion of your disposal your solicitor should deliver the transfer deeds and all of the paperwork to the purchaser's lawyers. Where relevant, your conveyancer must also confirm that the home loan has been repaid to the purchasers lawyers. There are no post completion steps specific conveyancing in Devon.

I am assisting my aunt sell her property in Devon. Will the conveyancer commission the energy performance certificate or it is for the seller to coordinate?

Following the demise of HIPs, energy performance certificates became a mandatory element of selling a property. An energy assessment must be commissioned before the property is marketed. It is not as aspect of the sale process that lawyers normally organise. Where you are instructing a Devon conveyancing practitioner they might be able to arrange EPC’s given their contacts with long established local assessors

My conveyancer has informed me that missing deeds insurance is needed on my purchase. What is the typical level of cover needed for conveyancing in Devon?

The appropriate level of missing deeds indemnity insurance should be dictated by who who your lender is. It would differ for example between National Westminster Bank and Norwich and Peterborough Building Society. Conveyancing practitioners as opposed to borrowers take out such insurances.

Is there a list of Lloyds panel conveyancers in Devon on the Council of Mortgage Lender’s Website?

Unfortunately not yet. There is no such tool on the Council of Mortgage Lenders or Building Society Association sites. A small selection of mortgage companies make their panel listings available on the web. If you are seeking to appoint a Devon conveyancing practitioner on the Lloyds please make the most of our tool.

I used Wolstenholmes a few years past for my conveyancing in Devon. I now require my papers however cannot find the solicitor. What do I do?

Do 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 Devon of the conveyancing firm of solicitors you previously retained, the name of conveyancing solicitor with whom you had dealings, and the date on which you last had dealings with the firm.

I have been pointed in your direction by three or four local estate agents in Devon to choose a conveyancer on your site. Is there a financial incentive for Estate Agents to recommend your site rather than alternative conveyancing organisations?

We don’t give any referral fee for sending work in our direction. We found it would be just too difficult to pay a commission as home movers will think, ‘How come the agent getting a kickback? Why aren’t I getting any benefit too?’ So we decided to step away from that.

A conveyancing company acted on my conveyancing in Devon seven years past having retained my deeds but has since been shut down – how do I retreive them?

Title deeds, as such, no longer exist as most homes in Devon are recorded digitally at Land Registry. If you need to establish ownership or are disposing of or re-mortgaging your property lawyer should obtain up to date copies of the register from the Land Registry in any case.

If you feel there may be other documents or you have any other queries please e-mail your request with details of the transaction and documents you need to filerequest@clc-uk.org. The CLC will let you know what information they have and any additional information they may need before they are in a position to identify and send the documents to you. Following an intervention it may take some time for the CLC to access archived files and documents, but your request will be actioned as quickly as possible.