Completed the sale of my flat in Feltham last March yet the purchaser is SMS messaging me to say his solicitor is waiting to hear from mine. What are the post completion sale legalities following completion?

Following your sale your solicitor should deliver the transfer deeds and all of the paperwork to the buyer’s solicitors. If applicable, your conveyancer should also evidence that the mortgage has been discharged to the purchasers lawyers. There are no post completion formalities unique to conveyancing in Feltham.

What is the best way to check that the solicitor conducting my conveyancing in Feltham is on the mortgage lender’sapproved panel? I am looking to avoid the situation of having one lawyer for me and one for Nationwide Building Society thus spending £192.00 in supplemental conveyancing bill.

You should make use of the find a lender approved solicitor tool on this web page. Pick the lender and type ‘Feltham’ or your location and you will be presented with a number of lawyer based in Feltham or nearest you.

My wife and I own a terraced Georgian property in Feltham. Conveyancing practitioner acted for me and Yorkshire Building Society. I happened to do a free search for it on the Land Registry database and I saw two entries: one for freehold, another for leasehold with the matching address. I thought I was buying a freehold how can I check?

You should review the Freehold register you have again and check the Charges Register for mention of a lease. The best way to be sure that you are also the registered owner of the leasehold and freehold title as well is to check (£3). It is not completely unheard of in Feltham and other areas of the country and poses no real issues for owners other than when they buy they have to account for both freehold and leasehold interests when dealing with buyers. You can also enquire as to the position with the conveyancing lawyer who conducted the conveyancing.

There are only Sixty One years remaining on my flat in Feltham. I need to get lease extension but my freeholder is can not be found. What options are available to me?

If you qualify, under the Leasehold Reform, Housing and Urban Development Act 1993 you can submit an application to the County Court for for permission to dispense with the service of the initial notice. This will enable the lease to be granted an extra 90 years by the Court. However, you will be required to demonstrate that you or your lawyers have done all that could be expected to locate the landlord. On the whole an enquiry agent may be helpful to try and locate and to produce a report to be accepted by the court as proof that the landlord is indeed missing. It is advisable to get professional help from a property lawyer in relation to proving the landlord’s disappearance and the vesting order request to the County Court covering Feltham.

I am the proprietor of a ground-floor 1960’s flat in Feltham. Given that I can not reach agreement with the freeholder, can the Leasehold valuation Tribunal determine the sum due for the purchase of the freehold?

if there is a missing landlord or where there is disagreement about the premium for a lease extension, under the Leasehold Reform, Housing and Urban Development Act 1993 it is possible to make an application to the Leasehold Valuation Tribunal to calculate the amount due.

An example of a Lease Extension case for a Feltham flat is 147 Redford Close in June 2012. The Tribunal determined the lease extension premium to be at £4,200 This case related to 1 flat. The unexpired term as at the valuation date was 82.93 years.

Is it necessary during the course of the conveyancing process to visit the offices of the bank conveyancing panel solicitor to sign the legal charge? If so, I will instruct a firm who offer conveyancing in Feltham as it will be easier to pop in to their offices if required.

As opposed to ten years ago, most lenders no longer require their conveyancing panel solicitor to witness the borrowers signature. You will still be obliged to provide ID Documents and there are still distinct advantages to using a local solicitor, in your case a conveyancing solicitor in Feltham.