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Ready to buy a new home in East London? Failing to check that a lawyer is on your lender’s list of approved solicitors can put your East London conveyancing at risk of delay or failure.

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Recently asked questions about conveyancing in East London

IfI was to purchase a freehold propertyin East London mortgage fee and dispense with a survey and no local authority searches how much should I expect to have to pay for conveyancing in East London?

The sole reduction in fees you would achieve is the East London conveyancing searches. A property lawyer still got to do everything else - money laundering, liaising with your vendors conveyancing practitioner, SDLT submission, register the ownership etc. A slight saving might be made by not needing to register a mortgage but it will not be significant.

Are the BSA intent on creating a searchable register to list solicitors on the Coventry BS conveyancing panel for instance in East London?

Lexsure has not been advised of any intention on the part of the BSA to develop such a register.

Forgive me if this question is silly but I am new to the house moving as FTB of a garden flat in East London. Do I receive the keys to the house on completion from my lawyer? If so, I will use a High Street conveyancing solicitor in East London?

On the day of completion you will not be required to attend the conveyancers office in East London. Your solicitors will electronically transfer the completion advance to the owner’s lawyers, and once they have received this, you should be called to receive the keys from the property Agents and move into your new home. This tends to happen early afternoon.

After months of negotiation I have agreed a price on a house in East London. My financial adviser recommended their conveyancers. I paid an on account payment of £225. A few days later, the conveyancing practitioner called me sheepishly admitting that they were not on the Aldermore conveyancing panel. Am I right in thinking that I should be due a refund?

You should be able to recover this from the law firm if they were not on the Aldermore panel. They should have asked at the outset which lender you were obtaining a mortgage with. An important lesson to readers of this site is to check that the lawyers are on the appropriate lender panel.

Co-operative have agreed my mortgage in principle, my bid on a flat in East London has been accepted, what happens next?

Your property agent will need to be advised as to your solicitor's details (ensure that the conveyancing practitioners are on the bank’s approved list). Call up Co-operative or your financial adviser and finalise any outstanding documentation. Co-operative will sellect a valuer who will get in touch with the selling agent or owners to arrange an appointment. Once carried out (assuming no problems) it takes on average a fortnight to receive the mortgage offer. Co-operative will send the offer to you and your conveyancers. The legal work will then take it’s course according the nature and complexity of the conveyancing in East London.

Yesterday I discovered that there is a flying freehold issue on a house I put an offer in a fortnight ago in what should have been a simple, no chain conveyancing. East London is the location of the property. Can you shed any light on this issue?

Flying freeholds in East London are not the norm but are more likely to exist in relation to terraced houses. Even where you use a solicitor outside East London you would need to get your solicitor to go through the deeds diligently. Your lender may require your conveyancing solicitor to take out an indemnity policy. Some of the more diligent conveyancing solicitors in East London may ascertain that this is not enough and that the deeds be re-written to give you the most up to date legal protection. If so, the next door neighbour also had to sign up to the revised deeds.It is possible that your lender will not accept the situation so the sooner you find out the better. You should also check with your insurance broker as to whether they will insure a flying freehold residence.

My husband and I are new on the property ladder - agreed a price, yet the estate agent told us that the seller will only move forward if we use the agent's preferred lawyers as they want an ‘expedited deal’. My instinct tells me that we should use a local conveyancer accustomed to conveyancing in East London

We suspect that the seller is not behind this request. If they require ‘a quick sale', alienating a genuine purchaser is counter productive. Speak to the vendors direct and make the point that (a)you are serious buyers (b)you are ready to go, with mortgage lined up © you are chain free (d) you wish to move quickly (e)but you are going to appoint your own,trusted East London conveyancing solicitors - not the ones that will provide the estate agent a referral fee or hit his conveyancing figures demanded by HQ.

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