I am acquiring an apartment in Dollis Hill. My Solicitor has never been on on the mortgage company conveyancing list. Can I still continue with my Dollis Hill conveyancing solicitor notwithstanding that they are excluded from the lender panel of approved conveyancing solicitors?

One must have a conveyancer to complete the formalities if you require a mortgage to buy your home. The conveyancing practitioner will carry out all the necessary due diligence on the property, make sure that you’re registered as proprietor and ensure that all the necessary mortgage documentation is dealt with. One may instruct a Dollis Hill property lawyer of your choice. However, where the conveyancer appointed is not on the mortgage company approved list further fees will be incurred as separate legal representation will be need by the bank. Conveyancing panel applications can be submitted, so where your conveyancer has not in the past sought membership they should take the opportunity to apply.

How up to date is your database of Dollis Hill solicitors on the Co-operative conveyancing panel? Do Co-operative send you an updated list?

Dollis Hill conveyancing firms themselves provide us confirmation that they are on the Co-operative conveyancing panel as opposed to being supplied with a list from Co-operative directly.

My colleague recommended that where I am buying in Dollis Hill I should carry out a Neighbourhood, Planning and Local Amenity Search. What does it cover?

This is a search is sometimes included in the estimate for your Dollis Hill conveyancing searches. It is not a small document of more than thirty pages, listing and setting out important information about Dollis Hill around the property and the people living there. It incorporates an Aerial Photograph, Planning Applications, Land Use, Mobile Phone Masts, Rights of Way, the Dollis Hill Housing Market, Council Tax Banding, the type of People living in the area, the dominant type of Housing, the Average House Prices, Crime details, Local Education with plans and statistics, Local Amenities and other useful information concerning Dollis Hill.

We expect to complete our sale of a £325,000 garden flat in Dollis Hill next week. The landlords agents has quoted £360 for Landlord’s certificate, building insurance schedule and previous years service charge statements. Is it legal for a freeholder to charge exorbitant fees for a leasehold conveyance in Dollis Hill?

For the majority of leasehold sales in Dollis Hill conveyancing will involve, queries regarding the management of a building inevitably needing to be answered directly by the freeholder or its agent, this includes :

Completing conveyancing due diligence enquiries Where consent is required before sale in Dollis Hill Copies of the building insurance and schedule Deeds of covenant upon sale Registering of the assignment of the change of lessee after a sale

Your conveyancer will have no control over the level of the charges for this information but the average costs for the information for Dollis Hill leasehold premises is £350. For Dollis Hill conveyancing transactions it is customary for the seller to pay for these costs. The landlord or their agents are under no legal obligation to answer such questions most will be willing to do so - albeit often at exorbitant prices where the fees bear little relation to the work involved. Unfortunately there is no law that requires fixed charges for administrative tasks. Neither is there any legal time frame by which they are required to supply the information.

Having spent years of correspondence we cannot agree with our landlord on how much the lease extension should cost for our flat in Dollis Hill. Does the Leasehold Valuation Tribunal have jurisdiction to calculate the appropriate figures?

You certainly can. We can put you in touch with a Dollis Hill conveyancing firm who can help.

An example of a Freehold Enfranchisement case for a Dollis Hill premises is 12 & 12A Deacon Road in May 2010. the Tribunal concluded that the price to be paid for the freehold should be £38,287 This case was in relation to 2 flats. The unexpired term as at the valuation date was 65.58 years.

Do I stop my mortgage payments with Lloyds once a completion date for my home sale in Dollis Hill has been agreed?

You would be well advised to keep paying any mortgage payments to Lloyds pending the mortgage being redeemed on completion as part of your Dollis Hill conveyancing.