I am under pressure from the owner of a property in East London to exchange within four weeks. What can I do to expedite matters?

Where you are under a tight deadline for your conveyancing it is advisable to make sure that your lawyer is familiar with the area as they will make use of local connections and insight. It is even conceivable that they would have handled otherhomes in the same neighbourhood. You would be best advised to use a East London conveyancing solicitor. In addition, make sure that the lawyer is on the lender panel. It is claimed that 18% of East London conveyancing deals are frustrated or derailed after finding out that a buyer’s conveyancer was not on their banks list of approved solicitors. In many cases this discovery resulted in the home move being held up by as much as three weeks. It is believed that this issue affects in the region of one hundred thousand home sales annually. Most East London conveyancing firms can not represent certain lenders so do check at the outset.

It is is a decade since I purchased my property in East London. Conveyancing solicitors have now been instructed on the sale but I am unable to track down the title documents. Will this jeopardise the sale?

Don’t worry too much. Firstly the deeds may be retained by your lender or they may be in the possession of the lawyers who acted in your purchase. Secondly in most cases the property will be registered at the land registry and you will be able to establish that you are the registered owner by your conveyancing solicitors obtaining up to date copy of the land registers. Nearly all conveyancing in East London relates to registered property but in the rare situation where your property is not registered it is more of a problem but is not insurmountable.

Have completed on a a detached house in East London , how long will it take for the Land Registry to record my title? My East London conveyancing solicitor has been painfully slow, so I want to be certain the registration is dealt with.

There is nothing unique about conveyancing in East London registration formalities. Rather than based on location, timeframes can adjust subject to the party submitting the application, whether there are errors and whether the Land registry must send notices to any third persons or bodies. As of today roughly three quarters of submission are completed in less than three weeks but some can be subject to protracted delays. Registration takes place once the buyer has moved in to the property so an expedited registration is not typically primary concern yet where it is urgent that the the registration takes place urgently then you or your conveyancer could contact the land registry and explain the circumstances.

Just had an offer accepted on a new build flat in East London. Conveyancing is daunting at the best of times but I have never purchased a new build flat before. What sort of enquires would be asked in new build conveyancing.

Set out below is a sample of a few leasehold new build questions that you should expect your new-build leasehold conveyancing in East London

If there are lifts in the building, please confirm that the owners of flats on the ground and basement floors will not be required to contribute towards the cost of maintenance and renewal. Please supply a car parking plan. Please supply evidence that the form of Lease proposed has been approved by the Land Registry. Investor purchasers must be able to freely grant unsecured tenancies at market rents without requiring any consents. The Lease must contain a provision on behalf of the Vendor to pay the service charges in respect of unoccupied units in order to ensure that all services can be provided.

I was pointed in your direction by two or three local selling agents in East London to select a conveyancer using your seach tool. Is there a financial advantage for Estate Agents to offer your services over and above alternative conveyancing organisations?

We refuse to make any commission for sending work in our direction. We thought it would be too underhand a fee as a client could think, ‘How come the agent getting a kickback? Why aren’t I getting any benefit too?’ We would prefer to grow our business on genuine recommendations.