I have given 8 weeks notice to my current landlord and have to vacate my rented property in Newbiggin By The Sea by the end of next month. Conveyancing for my house purchase is progressing. Is it possible to complete in 4 weeks as don't want to have to move into short term accommodation?

The normal practice is not to give notice on a rental until exchange of contracts has taken place. Assuming that you have not already done so, contact to your solicitor and ask them to they seek the assistance the other side, try to an acceptable time-line that everyone will aim towards

My friend advised me that where I am buying in Newbiggin By The Sea I should carry out a Neighbourhood, Planning and Local Amenity Search. Can you explain what the purpose of this search is?

A search of this type is sometimes included in the estimate for your Newbiggin By The Sea conveyancing searches. It is a large document of more than thirty pages, listing and detailing important information about Newbiggin By The Sea around the property and the people living there. It includes an Aerial Photograph, Planning Applications, Land Use, Mobile Phone Masts, Rights of Way, the Newbiggin By The Sea Housing Market, Council Tax Banding, the demographics of People living in the area, the dominant type of Housing, the Average Property Price, Crime details, Newbiggin By The Sea Education with maps and statistics, Local Amenities and other useful information about Newbiggin By The Sea.

I used Stirling Law a few years ago for my conveyancing in Newbiggin By The Sea. Now, I need the documents however the law firm is no longer operating. What do I do?

You should contact the Solicitors Regulatory Authority (SRA) to assist in tracking down 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 Newbiggin By The Sea of the conveyancing firm of solicitors you previously used, the name of conveyancing solicitor with whom you had dealings, and the date on which you last had dealings with the firm.

Planning to exchange soon on a basement flat in Newbiggin By The Sea. Conveyancing solicitors inform me that they will have a report out to me next week. What should I be looking out for?

Your report on title for your leasehold conveyancing in Newbiggin By The Sea should include some of the following:

What the implications are if you breach a clause of your lease? Additions to the flat You should have a good understanding of the building insurance requirements Specifying your rights in relation to common areas in the building.For example, does the lease grant a right of way over a path or hallways? Responsibility for maintaining the window frames

Newbiggin By The Sea Leasehold Conveyancing - Examples of Questions you should ask before buying

How many of the leaseholders are in arrears for their maintenance charge payments? Best to be warned if changing the roof or some other significant cost is due shortly that will be shared between the leaseholders and may well materially impact the level of the maintenance fees or result in a specific payment. Many Newbiggin By The Sea leasehold properties will be liable to pay a service bill for the upkeep of the block invoiced by the freeholder. Where you acquire the apartment you will have to meet this liability, normally periodically during the year. This could be anything from a couple of hundred pounds to thousands of pounds for bigger purpose-built blocks. In all probability there will be a ground rent for you to pay annual, normally this is not a significant amount, say around £50-£100 but you need to enquire as occasionally it could be surprisingly expensive.

My son is just in the process of moving house, he had his mortgage in principle. After the offer was accepted on house we telephoned the mortgage institution to go forward with his. I was disappointed to learn that mortgage lenders do not accept all conveyancer, they have to be on a list, is this correct?

Mortgage Companies tend to restrict either the type or the number of conveyancing solicitors on their panel. A common example of such restriction(s) being that a firm must have two or more partners. In addition to restricting the type of firm, some have decided to limit the number of firms they use to represent them. You should note that banks have no responsibility for the quality of advice provided by any Newbiggin By The Sea conveyancer on their panel. Mortgage fraud was a key driver in the rationalisation of conveyancing panels a few years ago and whilst there are differing views about the extent of solicitor involvement in some of that fraud. Statistics from the Land Registry reveal that thousands of law firms only carry out one or two conveyances a year. Those supporting conveyancing panel cuts ask why law firms should have the right to be on a Lender panel when clearly, conveyancing is not their speciality. To put it another way; would you want a conveyancing solicitor to represent you if you were charged with a crime? Probably not.