I am in the throes of transferring my domestic home loan to a BTL Santander mortgage. The bank has said that I require a conveyancer for this. I had a chat my former Kelsall conveyancing solicitor who who conducted the conveyancing when I originally purchased the property. The costs illustration supplied of £470 is an eye-watering amount to do this as its a remortgage than a sale or purchase.
The estimate does seem a tad steep. If you you were to look around you may be able to trim some of the expense by perhaps £100 plus VAT. On the other hand, providing that you were pleased with the service the firm provided you maylive to rue opting for an a cheaper solicitor. If is important to ensure the conveyancer can also act for Santander. You can employ our search tool to locate a Kelsall conveyancing firm on the Santander approved list of lawyers, which can often include conveyancing solicitors in Kelsall.
Will lawyers ask for money up-front for my conveyancing in Kelsall?
Where you are retaining lawyers for conveyancing in Kelsall your solicitor will ask you to provide them with monies to cover the search fees. Ordinarily this is requested to cover the fees of the conveyancing searches. When the down payment is as part of the purchase price then this should be needed immediately before contracts are exchanged. Any further balance that is due will be payable a few days ahead of the completion date.
My uncle passed away 10 months ago and as sole heir and executor I was left the property in Kelsall. The house had a small mortgage left on it of around £4500. I want to have the title changed into my name whilst I re-mortgage to HSBC, pay off the mortgage. Is this allowed?
Where you plan to refinance then HSBC will require that you use a conveyancer on the HSBC conveyancing panel. Here is link to the Land Registry online guidance around what to do when a property owner dies. This will help you to understand the registration process behind changing the details re the registered title. in your case it would appear that you are effectively purchasing the property from the estate. Your HSBC conveyancing panel solicitor pays the new mortgage money into the estate, the estate pays off the old mortgage, the charge is released and you become the owner and the HSBC mortgage is registered as a charge at the Land Registry.
I decided to have a survey completed on a house in Kelsall ahead of appointing solicitors. I have been told that there is a flying freehold aspect to the house. Our surveyor has said that some mortgage companies tend not give a mortgage on this type of home.
It depends who your proposed lender is. HSBC has different instructions from Birmingham Midshires. If you call us we can investigate further with the relevant lender. If you lender is happy to lend one our lawyers can help as they are used to dealing with flying freeholds in Kelsall. Conveyancing will be smoother if you use a solicitor in Kelsall especially if they regularly deal with such properties in Kelsall.
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