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Find a Flint Conveyancing Solictior on Your Lender’s Panel

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

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Recently asked questions about conveyancing in Flint

I am buying residence in Flint. My property lawyer is not on the lender conveyancing list. Is it possible for me to appoint my Flint conveyancing solicitor notwithstanding that they are excluded from the bank approved list?

Various options include

  • Carry on with your preferred Flint lawyer but your mortgage company will no doubt appoint a conveyancing practitioner on their approved list. The net result is additional cost and likely interruption.
  • Get a new conveyancing practitioner to conduct the conveyancing, ensuring that they are on the lender conveyancing panel.
  • Convince your lawyer to do everything within their powers to join the mortgage company panel of solicitors

Can your site be used to locate a Conveyancing solicitor in Flint even if I’m not buying or selling a house, for instance if I intend to acquire an office in Flint with a loan from Barclays Direct?

Our comparison service is primarily there to select domestic conveyancing solicitors in Flint but we have listed towards the end of this page a few Flint commercial conveyancing firms. You should speak with the solicitors directly to check if they are also authorised to represent Barclays Direct

Forgive me if this question is silly but I am unexperienced as FTB of a garden flat in Flint. Do I receive the keys to the property on completion from my conveyancer? If this is the case, I will appoint a local conveyancing solicitor in Flint?

On the day of completion you do not need to attend the conveyancers office in Flint. Conveyancing lawyers for you will electronically transfer the purchase money to the seller's conveyancers, and once they have received this, you will be invited to receive the keys from the property Agents and move into your new home. Usually this occurs between 1 and 3pm.

is it true that all Flint solicitor practices on the HSBC conveyancing panel are regulated by the SRA?

As a firm of solicitors, in order to be on the HSBC approved list of solicitors they would need to be governed by the Solicitors Regulatory Authority. Some mortgage companies do allow licenced conveyancers on their panel in which case such practice would be regulated by the Council of Licensed Conveyancers.

We had instructed conveyancers located in Flint on the Bank of Ireland solicitor approved list. They have just billed me a further fee for the legal aspects of the Bank of Ireland mortgage. Is this a supplemental conveyancing fee set by Bank of Ireland?

As unfair as it may appear, as long as it’s in their Terms and Conditions or Quote then yes your conveyancing practitioner may levy a fee for this. This charge is not dictated by Bank of Ireland but by your Flint conveyancer. Some firms on the Bank of Ireland panel will quote ’dealing with mortgage’ fee and others do not.

Due to the input of my in-laws I had a survey completed on a property in Flint in advance of appointing conveyancers. I have been told that there is a flying freehold element to the property. Our surveyor has said that some lenders may not give a loan on this type of house.

It depends who your proposed lender is. Lloyds has different requirements for example to Nationwide. If you call us we can look into this further via the appropriate mortgage company. If you lender is happy to lend one our lawyers can help as they are accustomed to dealing with flying freeholds in Flint. Conveyancing can be more complicated and therefore you should check with your conveyancing solicitor in Flint to see if the conveyancing costs will increase in light of this.

I need to instruct a conveyancing solicitor for freehold conveyancing in Flint. I have chance upon a site which seems to have the ideal solution If it is possible to get all formalities completed via phone that would be preferable. Should I be wary? What should out be looking out for?

As usual with these online conveyancers you need to read ALL the small print - did you notice the extra charge for dealing with the mortgage?

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