Do lawyers ask for an advanced payment for conveyancing in Mitcham?

Where you are retaining lawyers for conveyancing in Mitcham your solicitor will ask you to provide them with funds to cover the search fees. Normally this is needed to cover the fees of the Local Authority Search. When the deposit is payable against the total price then this should be needed shortly ahead of contracts are exchanged. Any further balance that is due should be sent to your lawyer shortly before completion.

We are expecting a mortgage offer soon. The bank mentioned the home loan came with free conveyancing. Is the implication that I have to instruct their panel conveyancer as I would much rather appoint a Mitcham based conveyancing firm?

Do check but the chances are that appoint one of their panel solicitors where you take up the "fee-free" incentive. Call the lender to check if they make available a cash alternative. In the past a few lenders offered a £250 cashback as a further option in which case you could put that amount towards the cost for your conveyancing solicitor near Mitcham.

My wife and I are buying a apartment in Mitcham. I might seem paranoid but how we can trust a conveyancer? At some point we have to deposit money into their account. What is the protection we have from them run away with our money?

Be assured that all money in a Solicitors client account is 100% safe, and even if your Solicitor ran off with it, the Law Society would reimburse you fully.

I am assisting my mother sell her flat in Mitcham. Does the conveyancer commission the energy assessment or it is for the seller to see to?

After the demise of Home Information Packs, energy assessments became a compulsory part of moving property. An energy assessment should be commissioned before the property is placed on the market. This is not something that lawyers ordinarily arrange. Where you are instructing a Mitcham conveyancing solicitor they might be able to arrange energy performance certificates due to their relationships with long established Mitcham energy assessors

I am planning to move property in January. Should my conveyancing solicitor communicate with the removal company on the completion day. As an aside, can you put forward a removal company in Mitcham. Conveyancing solicitor was found before I stumbled across your page.

On the day of completion you can collect the house keys from your selling agent however this can only happen when the previous owners conveyancers advise the agent that they acknowledge receipt of the completion payment and the keys can be released. Subsequently you can tell the removal men that you are ready to move in. As a matter of policy we do not suggest a particular removal organisation but can help you find a residential property solicitor in Mitcham or a solicitor with expertise in conveyancing in Mitcham.

I purchased a renovated Edwardian house in Mitcham. Conveyancing practitioner represented me and TSB. I did a free Land Registry search last week and there are a couple of entries: the first freehold, the second leasehold with the matching property. If a house is not a freehold shouldn't I have been informed?

You need to read the Freehold register you have again and check the Charges Register for mention of a lease. The best way to be sure that you are also the registered owner of the leasehold and freehold title as well is to check (£3). It is not completely unheard of in Mitcham and other areas of the country and poses no real issues for owners other than when they sell they have to account for both freehold and leasehold interests when dealing with lenders. You can also check the position with your conveyancing lawyer who carried out the work.

About to purchase a new build apartment in Mitcham. Conveyancing is a frightening process at the best of times but I have never purchased a new build flat before. What sort of enquires would be asked in new build conveyancing.

Set out below is a sample of a few leasehold new build enquiries that you may expect your new-build leasehold conveyancing in Mitcham

The Lease must contain a provision on behalf of the Vendor to pay the service charges in respect of unoccupied units in order to ensure that all services can be provided. Please provide evidence that the form of Lease proposed has been approved by the Land Registry. If there are lifts in the building, please confirm that the owners of flats on the ground and basement floors will not be required to contribute towards the cost of maintenance and renewal. Will control of the Management Company (if any) be handed over to purchasers on completion of the last sale or earlier? Where service of notices and proceedings can be at the property demised please confirm that this can be amended to include simultaneous services at the Lessees’ solicitors’ offices where the Lessee from time to time is not resident in the UK - such solicitors may be varied by notice in writing to the Landlord from time to time but otherwise will be as previously specified.