I can't travel far from Rothley. Is there a reason why all Rothley conveyancing practitioners aren't automatically on all mortgage company panels?

Even though it may seem unfair for banks to limit who can act for them, from the public’s or solicitor’s point of view, the other side of the coin is that banks are increasingly anxious and consider it vital to protect them from mortgage fraud. As a result of this concern banks are limiting their conveyancing panel to a size that they are happy to control.

Are the Rothley conveyancing solicitors identified as being on the HSBC conveyancing panel, together with their details provided by HSBC?

Rothley conveyancing firms themselves provide us confirmation that they are on the HSBC conveyancing panel as opposed to being supplied with a list from HSBC directly.

My colleague advised me that if I am buying in Rothley I should ask my conveyancer to 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 occasionally included in the estimate for your Rothley conveyancing searches. It is a large document of about 40 pages, listing and detailing significant information about Rothley around the property and the people living there. It includes an Aerial Photograph, Planning Applications, Land Use, Mobile Phone Masts, Rights of Way, the Rothley Housing Market, Council Tax Banding, the demographics of People living in the area, the dominant type of Housing, the Average Property Price, Crime details, Rothley Education with maps and statistics, Local Amenities and other useful information concerning Rothley.

I am 18 days into a freehold purchase having been recommend to solicitors by the selling agent to do our conveyancing in Rothley. I am am extremely dissatisfied with the quality of service. Could you help me find new solicitors?

They would have to be very bad in order to consider changing them. Has your mortgage offer been generated? In the event that it has you must make them aware of the new conveyancer and have the loan are re-sent. Your new solicitor ideally should be on the banks panel to avoid added costs and complications. That should be your starting point. Our search tool can assist you in finding a lender approved solicitor for your home move in Rothley

The property lawyers handling our conveyancing in Rothley has sent papers to review that indicate that the property is unregistered with epitome documents. How can it be that the property not registred at HMLR?

Much of the property in Rothley is registered. An 'epitome' is basically a dossier of photocopies of documents affecting an unregistered title. Many Rothley conveyancing practitioners should be able to handle such matters but if any uncertainty prevails the prevailing recommendation these days appears to be for the vendor’s solicitor to register the title first and subsequently sell - this no doubt cause a prolonged transaction.