Will my conveyancing lawyers need to check that the building insurance for my purchase of a house in Feltwell. My lender is Bank of Ireland

Bank of Ireland have specific requirements as set out in the UK Finance Lenders’ Handbook. As of 13/10/2025, the requirements read as follows :

I'm buying a new build house in Feltwell with the aid of help to buy. The sellers refused to reduce the amount so I negotiated 6k of extras instead. The property agent advised me not reveal to my lawyer about this extras as it may adversely affect my loan with the lender. Is this normal?.

All lenders require a Disclosure of Incentives Form from the developer of any new build, converted or renovated property, It is available online from the Lenders’ Handbook page on the CML website. CML form is completed and handed to the lender's surveyor when the inspection is done.

Lenders have different policies on incentives. Some accept none at all, cash or physical, while others will accept cash incentives up to 5%.

Hard to understand why the representative of a builder would be suggesting you withold information from a solicitor when all this will be clearly visible on forms the builder has to supply to its solicitor, the buyer's solicitor and the surveyor.

Hoping to buy a property located in Feltwell and I am already nervous. I couldn't find anything specific about Feltwell. Conveyancing will be needed in due course but do you know about the Feltwell area? or perhaps some other tips you can share?

Rather than looking online forget looking online you should go and have a look at Feltwell. In the meantime here are some basic statistics that we found

I am 14 days into a residential purchase having been referred to solicitors by the estate agent to do our conveyancing in Feltwell. We are not happy. Can you help me find new solicitors?

A solicitor would need to be very bad in order to consider replacing them. Has the mortgage been issued? In the event that it has you must advise them of the new contact details and ensure the offer are re-issued. The conveyancer needs to be on the lenders approved list to avoid supplemental charges and delays. That should be your first question of the new lawyers. The find a solicitor tool will assist you in finding a bank approved lawyer for your conveyancing in Feltwell

Should local authority permission be required to convert a house into a couple of appartments in Feltwell? This has occurred to a property opposite to my house in Feltwell and was unaware of the conversion until it was complete.

Planning consent is needed for splitting a single house in Feltwell into flats but possibly not for converting back to single dwelling-house so, simply put, yes.