My relative recommended that where I am buying in Hope Valley I should carry out a Neighbourhood, Planning and Local Amenity Search. Can you explain what the purpose of this search is?

This is a search is usually quoted for as part of the standard Hope Valley conveyancing searches. It is not a small report of about 40 pages, listing and setting out significant information about Hope Valley around the property and the people living there. It includes an Aerial Photograph, Planning Applications, Land Use, Mobile Phone Masts, Rights of Way, the local Housing Market, Council Tax Banding, the demographics of People living in the area, the dominant type of Housing, the Average House Prices, Crime details, Local Education with maps and statistics, Local Amenities and other useful information concerning Hope Valley.

I have justbeen informed that Stirling Law have closed. They conducted my conveyancing in Hope Valley for a purchase of a leasehold apartment 12 months ago. How can I check that my home is registered correctly in the name of the previous owner?

The easiest method to check if the property is registered to you, you can carry out a search of the land registry (£3.00). You can either do this yourself or ask a law firm to do this for you. If you are not registered you can seek help from one of a number of Hope Valley conveyancing specialists.

I have been pointed in your direction by a few property agents in Hope Valley to select a property lawyer using your seach tool. Is there a financial upside for Estate Agents to offer your site over a competitor’s?

We don’t offer any referral fee for pointing buyers and sellers our way. We found it would be just too difficult a fee because home movers will think, ‘How come the agent getting a kickback? Why aren’t I getting any benefit too?’ We would prefer to grow our business on genuine recommendations.

In my capacity as executor for the will of my father I am disposing of a property in Monmouth but reside in Hope Valley. My conveyancer (based 250 miles awayneeds me to sign a stat dec before completion. Could you suggest a conveyancing practitioner in Hope Valley who can witness and place their company stamp on the document?

Technically speaking you are unlikely to need to have the documents attested by a conveyancing solicitor. Normally any notary public or qualified solicitor will do regardless of whether they are located in Hope Valley

I note that you have a post code search directory identifying solicitors on the lender conveyancing panel. Do Hope Valley conveyancing firms pay you a referral fee if I instruct them for my own conveyancing?

We are a listing service only for law firms wishing to communicate if they are on the lender conveyancing panel or other lender panels. We do not charge referral fees to the any conveyancer that you subsequently appoint for your conveyancing in Hope Valley.