It is 10 years ago since I bought my home in Lee. Conveyancing solicitors have recently been appointed on the sale but I can't track down my deeds. Will this jeopardise the sale?

You need not be too concerned. Firstly the deeds may be with the mortgage company or they may be in the possession of the lawyers who handled your purchase. Secondly in most cases the land will be recorded at the land registry and you will be able to establish that you own the property by your conveyancing solicitors procuring current official copies of the land registers. Nearly all conveyancing in Lee relates to registered property but in the rare situation where your property is not registered it adds to the complexity but is resolvable.

I used Action Conveyancing a few years ago for my conveyancing in Lee. Now, I need the documents but cannot find the solicitor. What do I do?

Do call the Solicitors Regulatory Authority (SRA) to help locate your conveyancing files. They can be contacted on please contact on 0870 606 2555. Alternatively, you should use their online form to make an enquiry. You will need to provide the SRA with as much information as possible to assist their search, including the name and address in Lee of the conveyancing firm of solicitors you previously instructed, the name of conveyancing solicitor with whom you had dealings, and the date on which you last had dealings with the firm.

I'm buying a new build house in Lee with the aid of help to buy. The builders would not reduce the price so I negotiated £7000 of extras instead. The sale representative suggested that I not reveal to my conveyancer about the extras as it may impact my mortgage with The Mortgage Works. Do I keep my lawyer in the dark?.

All lenders require a Disclosure of Incentives Form from the developer of any new build, converted or renovated property, It is available online from the Lenders’ Handbook page on the CML website. CML form is completed and handed to the lender's surveyor when the inspection is done.

Lenders have different policies on incentives. Some accept none at all, cash or physical, while others will accept cash incentives up to 5%.

Hard to understand why the representative of a builder would be suggesting you withold information from a solicitor when all this will be clearly visible on forms the builder has to supply to its solicitor, the buyer's solicitor and the surveyor.

I'm converting the mortgage on my primary home to a buy to let mortgage with Barclays Direct and I will use the rest of the raised equity as a down payment on another house. The neighborhood we are looking at is Lee. Will your conveyancers be able to act for both sets of lenders and tie in the conveyances?

Make use of our search tool on this page to ensure that the solicitors are on the relevant lender panels. On the basis that they are the solicitor should be able to tie up the two transactions but you should have a chat with you conveyancer and communicate your desired outcome and needs.

Am I better off to choose a Lee conveyancing lawyer based in the vicinity that I am hoping to buy? We have a good friend who can carry out the legal formalities but they are based approximately 350kilometers drive away.

The benefit of a local Lee conveyancing firm is that you can drop in to execute documents, present your identification documents and pester them if necessary. They will also have local insight which is a plus. That being said it's more important to get someone that will do a good and efficient job. If other friends have instructed your friend and the majority were happy that should surpass using an unfamiliar Lee conveyancing lawyer just because they are Lee based.