We were just about to exchange contracts for a freehold house in Earls Barton. We encountered a snag. The mortgage offer with TSB runs out on 27/10/2025 but the sellers are insisting on a completion date of 29/10/2025. Can one prolong the loan offer?
The best person to deal with your issue is your solicitors who should determine whether they should be discussing with the lender, seller’s solicitors, estate agents or indeed all parties given the circumstances your transaction as of today.
Is there a search tool that I can use to check that the solicitor carrying out my conveyancing in Earls Barton is on the mortgage lender’sconveyancing panel? I am looking to avoid the situation of having one lawyer for me and one for Bank of Ireland thus paying £175.00 in supplemental conveyancing costs.
You should make use of the search tool on this web page. Pick the mortgage company and type ‘Earls Barton’ or your location and you will discover numerous solicitors offices in Earls Barton or by proximity to you.
My colleague suggested that if I am buying in Earls Barton I should carry out a Neighbourhood, Planning and Local Amenity Search. Can you explain what the purpose of this search is?
This is a search is sometimes quoted for as part of the standard Earls Barton conveyancing searches. It is not a small report of about 40 pages, listing and detailing significant information about Earls Barton around the property and the people living there. It includes an Aerial Photograph, Planning Applications, Land Use, Mobile Phone Masts, Rights of Way, the local Housing Market, Council Tax Banding, the type of People living in the area, the dominant type of Housing, the Average Property Price, Crime statistics, Earls Barton Education with maps and statistics, Local Amenities and other useful data concerning Earls Barton.
Despite weeks of looking the Title Certificate and documents to our property can not be found. The lawyers who conducted the conveyancing in Earls Barton 4 years ago are no longer around. What are my next steps?
You no longer need to hold title official documentation to establish that you own the land or premises, as the Land Registry have everything they need in a digital format.
In what way does the Landlord & Tenant Act 1954 impact my commercial premises in Earls Barton and how can your lawyers assist?
The 1954 Act gives security of tenure to business tenants, giving them the dueness to make a request to court for a continuation of occupancy at the end of an expired lease. There are certain specified grounds where a landlord can refrain from granting a lease renewal and the rules are complex. Fees are different for commercial conveyancing. Earls Barton is one of the hundreds of areas of the UK in which our lawyers are located