We are planning to acquire a house and require a conveyancing solicitor in Kirby Muxloe who is on the Virgin Money approved panel. Could you point me in the right direction as regards a firm?

Our service is limited to being a directory service for firms who wish to be listed as being on the approved conveyancing panel for Virgin Money . We don't recommend any particular firms conducting conveyancing in Kirby Muxloe.

I am helping my niece sell her flat in Kirby Muxloe. Does the solicitor arrange the energy performance certificate or do I organise this?

Following the abolition of Home Information Packs, energy assessments was left as a required element of selling a house. An energy performance certificate needs to be to hand before the property is advertised. This is not a task that lawyers ordinarily arrange. Where you are using a Kirby Muxloe conveyancing lawyer they may be willing to arrange EPC’s given their contacts with long established Kirby Muxloe accredited person

I have today made my last payment due on my mortgage with RBS. I assume I don't need a Kirby Muxloe conveyancing practitioner on the RBS panel to remove the mortgage at the Land Registry. Please confirm.

If you have finished paying off your RBS mortgage, they may send you evidence showing that you have paid it off. Alternatively they may notify the Land Registry directly. The Land Registry need to see this evidence before they will remove the RBS mortgage from the register. RBS, and any evidence they send you, will determine the action you need to take. In cases where no conveyancer is acting for you and you have paid off your mortgage:

1. but are not moving to another property
2. where RBS has sent the Land Registry the discharge electronically, and
3. RBS has instructed the Land Registry to do so

My offer was accepted on an apartment in Kirby Muxloe on 16/7/2025, valuation was booked 4 days later, all came back fine. Solicitor appointed, so all that was missing was my mortgage offer. Having made daily calls to Barclays and chasing them on my offer, I have now been told that my offer will not be issued unless the lawyer is on the Barclays conveyancing panel. Are Barclays entitled to hold back the Mortgage pending the lawyer being on the approved list?

Mortgage companies tend not to not issue an offer until they have details of a lawyer on their panel. It can take a few weeks for Barclays to deal with your lawyer's application to be on the Barclays conveyancing panel. There's no guarantee that your solicitor will be accepted.

I require expedited conveyancing in Kirby Muxloe as I am under pressure to exchange contracts inside 3 weeks. Luckily I do not need a mortgage. Is it possible to escape the need for conveyancing searches to save fees and time?

If.Given you are are a mortgage free purchaser you are at liberty not to do searches although no law firm would suggest that you don't. Drawing on our experience of conveyancing in Kirby Muxloe the following are instances of what can crop up and therefore impact the marketability of the property: Refused Planning Applications, Overdue Fees, Outstanding Grants, Unadopted Roads,...

I have been on the look out for a leasehold apartment up to £305k and found one close by in Kirby Muxloe I like with a park and station nearby, the downside is that it's only got 52 remaining years left on the lease. There is not much else in Kirby Muxloe in this price bracket, so just wondered if I would be making a mistake buying a lease with such few years left?

If you need a home loan the remaining unexpired lease term will likely be an issue. Reduce the price by the expected lease extension will cost if not already taken into account. If the current owner has owned the property for at least twenty four months you can ask them to start the process of the extension and then assign it to you. An additional ninety years can be extended on to the existing lease term and have £0 ground rent by law. You should speak to your conveyancing lawyer concerning this matter.

I would like to let out my leasehold flat in Kirby Muxloe. Conveyancing solicitor who did the purchase is retired - so can't ask him. Is permission from the freeholder required?

Some leases for properties in Kirby Muxloe do contain a provision to say that subletting is only permitted with prior consent from the landlord. The landlord is not entitled to unreasonably refuse but, in such cases, they would need to see references. Experience suggests that problems are usually caused by unsatisfactory tenants rather than owner-occupiers and for that reason you can expect the freeholder to take up the references and consider them carefully before granting consent.

Kirby Muxloe Leasehold Conveyancing - A selection of Queries before Purchasing

What restrictions are there in the Kirby Muxloe Lease? How many of the leaseholders are in arrears for their maintenance charge payments? In the main the outlay for major works are not wrapped into the service charges, although a few managing agents in Kirby Muxloe ask tenants to pay into a reserve fund created for the specific intention of establishing a fund for larger works.