I am buying a property without a mortgage in Farnham Common. I have lived for the last dozen years in Farnham Common. Conveyancing searches are a lot of money. Given that I know the road and vicinity intimately must I have all the conveyancing searches?

Provided that you do not need a home loan, then the vast majority of the Farnham Common conveyancing searches are non-obligatory. Your solicitor will try and sway you, no-doubt strongly, that you should have searches done, but she is duty bound to take that path of advice. Do bear in mind; if you are likely to sell the house in the future, it will likely be be of relevance to your prospective buyer what the searches disclose. Sometimes premises with functional issues can still throw up negative search results. A competent conveyancing solicitor in Farnham Common will provide you some helpful guidance concerning this.

Various internet forums that I have frequented warn that are the primary reason for delay in Farnham Common house deals. Is there any truth in this?

The Council of Property Search Organisations (CoPSO) released conclusions of a review by MoveWithUs that conveyancing searches do not feature amongst the most frequent causes of hindrances in the conveyancing process. Local searches are not likely to be the root cause of slowing down conveyancing in Farnham Common.

I have recentlyfound out that Wolstenholmes have been shut down. They conducted my conveyancing in Farnham Common for a purchase of a leasehold apartment 10 months ago. How can I establish that my home is registered correctly in the name of the previous owner?

The quickest way to see if the property is registered to you, you can make a search of the land registry (£3.00). You can either do this yourself or ask a law firm to do this for you. If you are not registered you can seek help from one of a number of Farnham Common conveyancing specialists.

Just had an offer accepted on a new build apartment in Farnham Common. Conveyancing is necessary evil at the best of times but I have never purchased a new build flat before. Can you give me some examples of some of the questions asked in new build legal work.

Here are examples of a selection of leasehold new build enquiries that you can expect your new-build leasehold conveyancing in Farnham Common

Forfeiture - bankruptcy or liquidation must not apply under this provision. The Landlord must covenant to assume the management if the Management Company goes into liquidation or otherwise defaults in running the management scheme. Where service of notices and proceedings can be at the property demised please confirm that this can be amended to include simultaneous services at the Lessees’ solicitors’ offices where the Lessee from time to time is not resident in the UK - such solicitors may be varied by notice in writing to the Landlord from time to time but otherwise will be as previously specified. 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. Will the freehold then be transferred for a nominal consideration (not exceeding £100) to the Management Company?

I have been advised by a number of property agents in Farnham Common to locate a property lawyer using your seach tool. Is there a financial advantage for Estate Agents to recommend your lawyers over a competitor’s?

We don’t make any financial incentive for directing people in our direction. We found it would be just too difficult a fee because a client could think, ‘How come the agent getting a kickback? Why am I not getting any benefit too?’ So we decided to step away from that.