At what point will exchange of contracts take place for residential conveyancing in North Woolwich and am I required to be at the lawyers branch?
If you are near to our conveyancing solicitors in North Woolwich you are invited in to sign documents. That being said, the law practices we recommend offer a national conveyancing service and provide just as detailed and professional a job for you when dealing with you electronically. The executing of the contract is not when everything is set in stone. Signing on the dotted line is necessary for the conveyancer to address the formalities at the appropriate time, which will usually be very shortly after signing. The exchange process is nowadays normally dealt with by telephone and can be very rapid, although where a long "chain" is in the mix, since the process requires the relevant party's solicitor (not necessarily a conveyancing solicitor in North Woolwich)to be in the office available at the end of the phone to exchange contracts.
I have been recommended a conveyancing solicitor in North Woolwich. I I am struggling to find out if they are on the Platform Home Loans Ltd approved list of lawyers. Can you help?
The first thing to do is e-mail the conveyancer and enquire whether they can act for the lender. Alternatively you can get in touch with Platform Home Loans Ltd who may be able to confirm.
Forgive me if this question is silly but I am unseasoned as a first time buyer of a two bedroom flat in North Woolwich. Do I pick up the keys to the house on the completion date from my solicitor? If so, I will instruct a High Street conveyancing solicitor in North Woolwich?
On the day of completion you do not need to attend the conveyancers office in North Woolwich. Your solicitors will electronically transfer the purchase money to the owner’s solicitors, and shortly after the monies have arrived, you should be able to receive the keys from the selling Agents and move into your new home. Usually this happens between 1 and 3pm.
My wife and I are at the point of looking at apartments in North Woolwich and I am now considering a potential offer. Is it best to have my solicitor on ‘stand by’? I am planning to take a mortgage with Co-operative.
It would be sensible to start your search sooner rather than later. Once you decide who you want to use and once your offer is accepted you can instruct them to work for you and forward their contact information on to the EA. As you are getting a mortgage with Co-operative, ask your prospective lawyers if they are on the Co-operative conveyancing panel otherwise they can't do the mortgage legal work.
I have paid off my mortgage with HSBC. I assume I don't need a North Woolwich conveyancer on the HSBC panel to discharge the mortgage at the Land Registry. Please confirm.
If you have finished paying off your HSBC 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 HSBC mortgage from the register. HSBC, 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:
- but are not moving to another property
- where HSBC has sent the Land Registry the discharge electronically, and
- HSBC has instructed the Land Registry to do so
Are there restrictive covenants that are commonly picked up during conveyancing in North Woolwich?
Restrictive covenants can be picked up when reviewing land registry title as part of the legal transfer of property in North Woolwich. An 1874 stipulation that was seen was ‘The houses to be erected on the estate are each to be of a uniform elevation in accordance with the drawings to be prepared or approved by the vendor’s surveyor…’
Are there any apps to assist me to locate a North Woolwich solicitor on the Leeds Building Society conveyancing panel? I have a car and am happy to travel upto 25kilometers to meet the conveyancer.
Feel free to make use of the search on this website. Please pick a mortgage company and your location and you will see a number of North Woolwich conveyancing lawyers located nearest you. We have detailed some North Woolwich conveyancing firms towards the end of this page and you can ring them to check whether they are on the Leeds Building Society approved list