My IFA says he needs my Hinckley law firm’s panel reference for the Santander conveyancing panel. Can you suggest how I obtain this. I have called my local Hinckley office but they have not responded to me.

You are best placed to get this information from your Hinckley conveyancing practitioner . They keep a central record lender panel numbers.

I require conveyancing for a flat in a relatively new development (seven years old) in Hinckley. 95% of the properties have already been disposed of. Do I need carry out the neighbourhood searches for my conveyancing in Hinckley?

Where you are obtaining a loan, your lender will need some (many) of the searches so you'll have no choice. If not, then Hinckley conveyancing searches are for you to decide upon. No doubt your conveyancer, will ’encourage’, perhaps strongly, that you should have the searches done, but he or she has a professional duty to do this. One thing to bear in mind; if you are likely to sell the house one day, it may be of interest to your future buyer what the searches contain. Sometimes houses with no practical issues can still throw up adverse search results. But if you insist that your lawyer to proceed without searches then your lawyer will have to follow your instructions or you will need to change to another solicitor for your conveyancing in Hinckley.

We wanted to use a conveyancing solicitor in Hinckley for our house move. Our broker has since notified us that our mortgage lenders Halifax won't deal with them. Surely this is unduly restrictive?

A mortgage company will insist on an approved conveyancer act for it. Borrowers are liable to bear the charges for this. Try using our tool to locate a solicitor to conduct conveyancing in Hinckley on the Halifax approved list of solicitors.

Just bought a detached house in Hinckley , What is the estimated time for the Land Registry to register my ownership? My Hinckley conveyancing solicitor works at snail pace, so I want to check the land registry aspects are addressed.

There is nothing unique about conveyancing in Hinckley registration formalities. Rather than based on location, timeframes can vary depending on the party submitting the application, whether it is in order and if the Land registry need to notify any third persons or bodies. Currently roughly 80% of such applications are fully dealt with within 12 days but some can be subject to extensive delays. Registration is effected after the purchaser has moved in to the premises therefore 'speed' is not always top priority yet if it is urgent that the the registration takes place urgently then you or your solicitor could contact the land registry and explain the circumstances.

I happen to be an executor of my recently deceased aunt’s Will, with a house in Hinckley which will be sold. The house is unregistered at HMLR and I'm advised that many estate agents will insist that it is completed before they will move forward. What's the mechanism for this?

In the circumstances that you have set out it seems sensible to seek to register in the names of the personal representative(s) as named in the probate and in their capacity as PRs. HMLR’s online guidance explains how to register for the first time and what is required re the deeds and forms. You would need to include and certified copy of the probate as well and complete the form FR1 to refer to the PRs as the applicant.