Some advice if I may. My Portslade lawyer is advising me that he is legally obliged toorder Portslade conveyancing searches asthe firm are on the Nat Westapproved lawyer panel. Is this really necessary?
Unfortunately both you and your lawyer have little choice here. As you are taking a home loan with a mortgage company your conveyancer has to comply with their conditions as set out in their version of the CML Conveyancing Handbook. Your conveyancing practitioner would have previously signed the Terms and Conditions of your lender’s conveyancing panel appointment which obliges them to follow the CML Handbook requirements . Even if you were a cash buyer you would be ill advised not to carry out Portslade conveyancing searches.
Can your site be used to find a Conveyancing solicitor in Portslade even if I’m not buying or selling a house, for instance if I intend to buy an office in Portslade with a loan from Accord Mortgages Ltd?
The service is primarily utilised to get a quote from domestic conveyancing solicitors in Portslade but we have set out at the bottom of this page some Portslade commercial conveyancing firms. You should enquire with the solicitors directly to establish if they can also act for Accord Mortgages Ltd
We're in Portslade, FTBs buying with a mortgage (lender is Virgin Money , and our solicitor is on the Virgin Money conveyancing panel). How long should the conveyancing process take?
The fact that your lawyer is on the Virgin Money conveyancing panel is a help. It would almost certainly delay matters if they were not. However, no lawyer should guarantee a timeframe for your conveyancing, due to third parties outside of your control such as delays caused by lenders,conveyancing search providers or by the other side’s solicitors. The time taken is often determined by the number of parties in a chain.
I have been advised by a few estate agents in Portslade to select a solicitor using your seach tool. What’s the financial upside for Estate Agents to market your site over another?
We don’t offer any referral fee for sending work to this site. We found it would be just too difficult to pay a commission because a client could think, ‘Why is the agent getting a kickback? Why aren’t I getting any benefit too?’ We would prefer to grow our business on genuine recommendations.
My partner is buying a leasehold flat in Portslade. He has received a fee estimate by the conveyancer connected to the selling agents and it came to £1300 . It was eight years ago I sold and bought a property and the bill was £495. Have fees really escalated to that extent?
What does the conveyancing estimate include? Is it just for the legal fees, or what you will be paying in total (for example Portslade searches, land registry fees, etc)