I have given 2 months notice to my existing landlord and have to be out of my let out property in Knaresborough by the end of next month. Conveyancing on my purchase has just started. How realistic is it to complete in six weeks as don't want to have to find short term accommodation?

The normal practice is not to serve notice on a rental until your lawyer suggests that you should. If you have not already done so, contact to your conveyancer and ask them to they apply pressure on the other lawyers, try to get a realistic time scale from them that all parties will work to achieve

Will lawyers ask for money up-front for conveyancing in Knaresborough?

Where you are retaining lawyers for conveyancing in Knaresborough your lawyer will ask you to provide them with funds to cover the the cost of the conveyancing searches. Ordinarily this is called for to cover the fees of the Local Authority Search. When the deposit is as part of the purchase price then this should be required immediately before exchange of contracts. The closing balance that is due should be transferred a couple of days ahead of the day of completion.

Various online forums that I have come across warn that are the primary reason for hinderance in Knaresborough conveyancing transactions. Is that correct?

The Council of Property Search Organisations (CoPSO) has noted the determinations of a review by MoveWithUs that conveyancing searches do not figure amongst the top 10 causes of hindrances in the conveyancing process. Searches are not likely to feature in any holding up conveyancing in Knaresborough.

I have justdiscovered that Stirling Law have been shut down. They carried out my conveyancing in Knaresborough for a purchase of a leasehold apartment 18 months ago. How can I establish that the property is in my name in the name of the previous owner?

The quickest way to see 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 Knaresborough conveyancing specialists.

I am on look out for some leasehold conveyancing in Knaresborough. Before I set the wheels in motion I would like to find out the number of years remaining on the lease.

If the lease is recorded at the land registry - and almost all are in Knaresborough - then the leasehold title will always include the short particulars of the lease, namely the date; the term; and the original parties. From a conveyancing perspective such details then enable any prospective buyer and lender to confirm that any lease they are looking at is the one relevant to that title. For any other purpose, such as confirming how long the term was granted for and calculating what is left, then the register should be sufficient on it's own.

Leasehold Conveyancing in Knaresborough - A selection of Questions you should ask before buying

The prefered form of lease arrangement is where the freehold interest is in the ownership of the leaseholders. In this situation the tenants enjoy control and even though a managing agent is frequently retained where the building is bigger than a house conversion, the managing agent acts for the leaseholders themselves. Are there any major works in the near future that will likely increase the maintenance costs? If a Knaresborough lease has less than eighty years it will have adverse implications on the salability of the apartment. Check with your mortgage company that they are happy with the length of the lease. Leases with fewer than 80 years remaining means that you will most likely have to extend the lease sooner rather than later and it is worth discovering how much this would cost. Remember, in most cases you will need to own the property for 24 months in order to be entitled to extend the lease.