I am helping my step-mother sell her house in Preston Park. Does the conveyancing solicitor commission the energy assessment or should I organise this?

After the demise of Home Packs, energy assessments was kept a required element of selling a property. An energy performance certificate must be commissioned in advance of the property being put on the market. This is not something that lawyers normally organise. Where you are using a Preston Park conveyancing solicitor they might be willing to arrange energy assessments due to their relationships with reputable local energy assessors

I am aiming to move house in March. Should my conveyancing solicitor communicate with the removal company on the day of completion. On a separate note, can you suggest a removal company in Preston Park. Conveyancing lawyer was found prior to coming across this site.

On the day of completion you can pick up the keys from the selling agent however this can only take place when the vendors conveyancers advise the agent that they have the completion monies and the keys can be passed over. You will need to advise the removal men that you are ready to move in. As a matter of policy we do not recommend a particular removal company but can help you find a conveyancing in Preston Park or a lawyer that specialises in conveyancing in Preston Park.

I was told four weeks ago that my mortgage has been agreed to by Aldermore. Is it usual for Aldermore to only issue the offer once my solicitor in Preston Park is approved on their conveyancing panel? Aldermore have asked my solicitor to see a copy of their PI Insurance.

A lender would not issue an offer until they have details of a lawyer on their panel. It can take a few weeks for Aldermore to deal with your lawyer's application to be on the Aldermore conveyancing panel. There's no guarantee that your solicitor will be accepted.

My relative advised me that where I am buying in Preston Park I should ask my conveyancer to perform a Neighbourhood, Planning and Local Amenity Search. What does it cover?

A search of this type is usually quoted for as part of the standard Preston Park conveyancing searches. It is not a small document of about 40 pages, listing and detailing important information about Preston Park around the property and the people living there. It includes an Aerial Photograph, Planning Applications, Land Use, Mobile Phone Masts, Rights of Way, the Preston Park Housing Market, Council Tax Banding, the demographics of People living in the area, the dominant type of Housing, the Average Property Price, Crime statistics, Preston Park Education with maps and statistics, Local Amenities and other useful information regarding Preston Park.

Are there restrictive covenants that are commonly picked up during conveyancing in Preston Park?

Covenants that are restrictive in nature can be picked up when reviewing land registry title as part of the legal transfer of property in Preston Park. 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…’

I've recently found out that there is a flying freehold element on a house I have offered on a fortnight ago in what was supposed to be a straight forward, no chain conveyancing. Preston Park is where the house is located. Is there any advice you can give?

Flying freeholds in Preston Park are not the norm but are more likely to exist in relation to terraced houses. Even where you use a solicitor outside Preston Park you would need to get your solicitor to go through the deeds very carefully. Your mortgage company may require your conveyancing solicitor to take out an indemnity policy. Some of the more diligent conveyancing solicitors in Preston Park may ascertain 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 property.

My sister purchased her house in Preston Park Six years past. She has got married, widowed and is now remarried. She now wishes to dispose of the Preston Park property. I think she will just be asked to supply copies of the marriage certificates to the conveyancing practitioner however she is anxious it will hold up the conveyancing. Should she appoint a conveyancing practitioner to update the land title information for the property?

It is not absolutely necessary to bring up to date the title for the property on the basis that you have the proof required to demonstrate how the change of name occurred.

Any purchaser’s property lawyer should review the registered details and ask for evidence to establish the change of name e.g. marriage certificates.