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

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Recently asked questions about conveyancing in Holland Park

My husband and I are purchasing a flat in Holland Park. My lawyer has never been on on the lender conveyancing list. Am I still permitted to use my Holland Park conveyancing solicitor even though they are excluded from the lender panel of approved conveyancing solicitors?

You must have a conveyancing practitioner to complete the formalities when you take out a mortgage to buy your home. They will carry out all the relevant due diligence on the property, ensuring that you will be registered as proprietor and ensure that all the necessary mortgage documentation is dealt with. You may appoint a Holland Park conveyancing practitioner of your choice. However, where the property lawyer selected is not on the lender solicitor panel supplemental costs will be incurred as separate legal representation will be required by them. Conveyancing panel applications can be submitted, so if your lawyer has not in the past applied for membership they should take the opportunity to apply.

I am purchasing a property without a mortgage in Holland Park. I have lived for the previous twelve years in Holland Park. Conveyancing searches are expensive. Given that I have knowledge of the road and vicinity very well should I not bother getting the solicitor to do all the conveyancing searches?

Provided that you do not need a home loan, then all but one or two of the Holland Park conveyancing searches are at your discretion. Your conveyancer will 'advise', perhaps strongly, that you should have searches done, but he has a professional duty to take that path of advice. Do consider; if you are intend to sell the house at a future date, it may be of importance to your future purchaser what the searches reveal. There are plenty of instances where houses with functional issues can still throw up unfavourable search results. A competent conveyancing solicitor in Holland Park will be able to give you some helpful advice concerning this.

Can your site be used to recommend a Conveyancing solicitor in Holland Park even where I’m not purchasing or selling a house, for example where I intend to buy an office in Holland Park with a mortgage from Nationwide Building Society?

The service is predominantly there to get a quote from domestic conveyancing solicitors in Holland Park but we have set out towards the end of this page some Holland Park commercial conveyancing firms. You should speak with the solicitors directly to check if they are also authorised to represent Nationwide Building Society

How does conveyancing in Holland Park differ for newly converted properties?

Most buyers of new build or newly converted property in Holland Park approach us having been asked by the developer to sign contracts and commit to the purchase even before the house is ready to move into. This is because developers in Holland Park tend to acquire the site, plan the estate and want to get the plots sold off as they are building the properties. Buyers, therefore, will have to exchange contracts without actually seeing the house they are buying. To reduce the chances of losing the property, buyers should instruct conveyancers as soon as the property is reserved and mortgage applications should be submitted quickly. Due to the fact that it could be several months and even years between exchange of contracts and completion, the mortgage offer may need to be extended. It would be wise to use a lawyer who specialises in new build conveyancing especially if they are used to new build conveyancing in Holland Park or who has acted in the same development.

I have been on the look out for a ground for flat up to £195,000 and identified one round the corner in Holland Park I like with amenity areas and station nearby, the downside is that it's only got 61 years unexpired on the lease. There is not much else in Holland Park in this price bracket, so just wondered if I would be making a mistake buying a lease with such few years left?

Should you need a home loan that many years will likely be an issue. Discount the price by the amount the lease extension will cost if not already taken into account. If the current owner has owned the property for a minimum of 2 years you could ask them to start the process of the extension and pass it to you. An additional ninety years can be extended on to the existing lease and have £0 ground rent by law. You should consult your conveyancing lawyer about this matter.

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