My fiance and I are planning to purchase a flat in Park Langley and are in fact using a Park Langley conveyancing firm. Within the past 48 hours our lawyer has forwarded the sale agreement to be signed with a detailed report with a view to exchanging next week. The Royal Bank of Scotland have this afternoon contacted us to advise us that there is now an issue as our Park Langley conveyancer is not on their conveyancing panel. What do we do from here?
If you are buying a property needing a mortgage it is normal for the purchasers' lawyers to also represent the mortgage company. In order to act for a bank or building society a law firm has to be on that lender's conveyancing panel. An application has to be made by the law firm to the lender to become a member of the lender's panel and there are increasingly strict criteria which the firm has to satisfy and indeed some lenders now require their panel members to be part of the Law Society’s Conveyancing Quality Scheme. Your solicitor should contact your lender and see if they can apply for membership of their conveyancing panel, but if that is not viable they will instruct their own solicitors to act. You are not legally obliged to appoint a law firm on the bank's conveyancing panel as you are at liberty to use your preferred Park Langley lawyers, in which case it will likely add costs, and it may delay matters as you have another set of people involved.
Can the conveyancing practitioners indexed on your site conduct right to buy conveyancing in Park Langley?
We work with a number of conveyancing experts who can handle right to buy transactions Please call the conveyancers listed in order to get a costs illustration.
A relative advised me that where I am purchasing in Park Langley 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 quoted for as part of the standard Park Langley conveyancing searches. It is not a small document of more than thirty pages, listing and setting out significant information about Park Langley around the property and the people living there. It includes an Aerial Photograph, Planning Applications, Land Use, Mobile Phone Masts, Rights of Way, the Park Langley Housing Market, Council Tax Banding, the demographics of People living in the area, the dominant type of Housing, the Average House Prices, Crime statistics, Park Langley Education with plans and statistics, Local Amenities and other useful information concerning Park Langley.
I have been sourcing a conveyancing practitioner in Park Langley for my home move. Can I see a solicitor's complaints history with the legal regulator?
One can find presented Solicitor Regulator Association (SRA) decisions arising from investigations commenced on or after 1 January 2008. Go to Check a solicitor's record. For records about the period before 1 January 2008, or to check a solicitors history, call 0870 606 2555, 08.00 - 18.00 Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and 09.30 - 18.00 Tuesday. For non-uk callers, use +44 (0)121 329 6800. The regulator could recorded call for training reasons.
Me and my wife have recently had an offer accepted on our 1st home in Park Langley, and are now looking to get solicitors lined up. We have made use of the numerous comparison tools and the fee estimates are from all across the the UK. Is it essential to have a Park Langley property lawyer local to your potential house? I am fine to do everything over the web, but I guess at some stage we may be required to physically go into the solicitor's office to sign papers?
The conveyancer does not have to be in Park Langley, but choosing local means that you can go in if required, for instance, if a signature is needed urgently. In addition, a Park Langley solicitor is likely to be familiar with local agents and (if the vendor has chosen a local solicitor) with them, which should help smooth the process.