Our god-son is purchasing a house that has just been built in Solva with a mortgage from Kent Reliance. His solicitor has advised him of a delay in receiving the ‘Disclosure of Incentive Form’. What is this document - I have never come across this before?

The form is intended to provide information to the main parties engaged in the purchase. Therefore, it will be provided to your son’s lawyer who should be on the Kent Reliance conveyancing panel as a standard part of the process, and to the surveyor when requested. The developer will be required to start the process by downloading the form and completing it. The form will therefore need to be available for the valuer at the time of his or her site visit. The form should be sent to the Kent Reliance conveyancing panel solicitor as early as possible, in order to avoid any last minute delays, and no later than at exchange of contracts.

Completed the sale of my flat in Solva last November but the buyer keeps telephoning me to moan that their lawyer is waiting to hear from mylawyer. What are the post completion sale legalities now that I have sold?

Following your disposal your conveyancer should send the transfer deeds and all supplemental paperwork to the buyer’s solicitors. If applicable, your solicitor should also confirm that the home loan has been redeemed to the purchasers conveyancers. There is unlikely to be post completion tasks specific conveyancing in Solva.

We are planning to purchase with Norwich and Peterborough Building Society. I popped in a few local practices yet am struggling to find a Solva conveyancing firm on the Norwich and Peterborough Building Society approved list. Could you help?

Feel free to take advantage of the find a lender approved solicitor tool on this site. Please choose the lender and type Solva or your preferred area and you will be presented with a number of lawyer offices in Solva or near you.

I have recently realised that I have 72 years left on my lease in Solva. I need to get lease extension but my freeholder is absent. What options are available to me?

If you qualify, under the Leasehold Reform, Housing and Urban Development Act 1993 you can apply to the County Court for an order to dispense with the service of the initial notice. This will mean that your lease can be lengthened by the Court. You will be obliged to demonstrate that you have done all that could be expected to locate the lessor. In some cases a specialist may be useful to conduct investigations and to produce an expert document to be accepted by the court as evidence that the landlord 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 covering Solva.

I purchased a studio flat in Solva, conveyancing was carried out January 2001. Can you please calculate a probable premium for a statutory lease extension? Similar flats in Solva with a long lease are worth £227,000. The ground rent is £50 per annum. The lease ends on 21st October 2097

With 72 years remaining on your lease we estimate the price of your lease extension to range between £9,500 and £11,000 plus costs.

The figure above a general guide to costs for renewing a lease, but we cannot give you the actual costs without more comprehensive due diligence. You should not use this information in a Notice of Claim or as an informal offer. There may be additional concerns that need to be taken into account and you obviously should be as accurate as possible in your negotiations. Please do not move forward placing reliance on this information without first getting professional advice.

Partway through the sale of a leasehold flat in Solva. Conveyancing is fine but we have been asked to pay an extortionate amount by the landlord. So far we have paid £275 for a leasehold management information and then a further £134.40 for supplemental questions raised by the buyers lawyer.

Neither you or your conveyancing practitioner will have any impact over the extent of the charges for this information but the average fee for the information for Solva leasehold property is £355. When it comes to Solva conveyancing sales it is conventional for the seller to pay for these costs. The landlord or their agents are not duty bound to answer such questions most will agree to do so - albeit often at exorbitant prices disproportionate to the work involved. Unfortunately there is no statute that requires set fees for administrative tasks. There is no statutory time frame by which they are required to supply answers.