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Find a Oakleigh Park Conveyancing Solictior on Your Lender’s Panel

Ready to buy a new home in Oakleigh Park? Failing to check that a lawyer is on your lender’s list of approved solicitors can put your Oakleigh Park home move at risk of delay or failure.

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Recently asked questions about conveyancing in Oakleigh Park

We are looking to buy a flat and need a conveyancing solicitor in Oakleigh Park who is on the HSBC approved panel. Could you point me in the right direction as regards a conveyancing firm?

Our service is limited to being a directory service for firms who wish to be listed as being on the approved conveyancing panel for HSBC . We don't recommend any particular firms conducting conveyancing in Oakleigh Park.

Despite weeks of looking the Title Certificate and documents to my house are lost. The conveyancers who handled the conveyancing in Oakleigh Park 5 years ago no longer exist. What do I do?

You no longer need to hold title deeds to establish that you own the land or premises, given that the Land Registry have everything they need in a digital format.

I'm buying a new build house in Oakleigh Park with a mortgage from Leeds Building Society. The sellers would not reduce the price so I negotiated £7000 of extras instead. The estate agent suggested that I not to tell my solicitor about this deal as it would adversely affect my loan with the lender. Should I keep quiet?.

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.

Yesterday I discovered that there is a flying freehold issue on a property I have offered on a fortnight ago in what should have been a quick, no chain conveyancing. Oakleigh Park is the location of the property. Is there any guidance you can impart?

Flying freeholds in Oakleigh Park are unusual but are more likely to exist in relation to terraced houses. Even where you use a solicitor outside Oakleigh Park you must be sure that your lawyer goes through the deeds very carefully. Your lender may require your conveyancing solicitor to take out an indemnity policy. Some of the more diligent conveyancing solicitors in Oakleigh Park may determine that this is not enough and that the deeds be re-written to give you the most up to date legal protection. If so, the next door neighbour also had to sign up to the revised deeds.It is possible that your lender will not accept the situation so the sooner you find out the better. You should also check with your insurance broker as to whether they will insure a flying freehold residence.

There are only 62 years unexpired on my flat in Oakleigh Park. I need to extend my lease but my landlord is missing. What options are available to me?

On the basis that you meet the appropriate requirements, under the Leasehold Reform, Housing and Urban Development Act 1993 you can apply to the County Court for for permission to dispense with the service of the initial notice. This will enable the lease to be lengthened by the Court. However, you will be required to demonstrate that you have made all reasonable attempts to track down the lessor. In some cases a specialist would be helpful to try and locate and to produce a report which can be used as proof that the freeholder is indeed missing. It is advisable to get professional help from a property lawyer both on proving the landlord’s disappearance and the application to the County Court overseeing Oakleigh Park.

After months of negotiations we are unable to agree with our landlord on how much the lease extension should cost for our flat in Oakleigh Park. Can we issue an application to the Residential Property Tribunal Service?

in cases where there is a missing landlord or if there is dispute about what the lease extension should cost, under the Leasehold Reform, Housing and Urban Development Act 1993 it is possible to make an application to the LVT to decide the price.

An example of a Lease Extension case for a Oakleigh Park residence is Flat 2 2 Netherfield Road in April 2010. The Tribunale held that premium payable for a 90 year extension to the existing Lease should be £7,705. This case affected 1 flat. The unexpired residue of the current lease was 76 years.

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