Finally the sale completed on my house in South Yorkshire last December yet the purchaser is calling me to say their conveyancer needs to hear from mine. What should my lawyer have done following completion?
After completion of your house sale your conveyancer is obliged to deliver the transfer documentation and all of the paperwork to the purchaser's conveyancer. If applicable, your lawyer should also evidence that the legal charge in favour of the lender has been discharged to the buyers lawyers. There is unlikely to be post completion requirements just for conveyancing in South Yorkshire.
I just acquired a house at auction in South Yorkshire. Conveyancing is needed. What is next?
Now that you are exchanged you must choose a conveyancing practitioner quickly as you will have a pending a drop dead date to complete the deal. All auction property will have a bespoke legal set of papers. This will likely include the copy title deeds, local authority and drainage searches. In the case of leasehold premises the conveyancing papers should include a copy of the lease, management information and a sellers leasehold information form and associated conveyancing documentation pertinent to a leasehold property. You must give this to your appointed conveyancing solicitor as soon as possible. Do make sure that your finances are in order to complete on the on the contractual date .
My stepmother advised me that in buying a property in South Yorkshire there could be a number of restrictions preventing external changes to a property. Is this right?
There are a number of properties in South Yorkshire which have some sort of restriction or requirement of consent to execute external variations. Part of the conveyancing in South Yorkshire should determine what restrictions are applicable and advising you as part of a ROT that should be sent to you.
When it comes to lenders such as UBS, do South Yorkshire lawyers face an annual charge to be on the conveyancing panel?
We are not aware of any mortgage company fees to be on their panel, although some do charge an administration fee to deal with the processing of the conveyancing panel application.
What will a local search inform me regarding the house we're purchasing in South Yorkshire?
South Yorkshire conveyancing often starts with the ordering local authority searches directly from your local Authority or through a personal search organisations for instance Searches UK The local search is essential in every South Yorkshire conveyancing purchase; that is if you don’t want any nasty once you have moved into your property. The search should reveal information on, amongst other things, details on planning applications relevant to the property (whether granted or refused), building control history, any enforcement action, restrictions on permitted development, nearby road schemes, contaminated land and radon gas; in all a total of thirteen subject headings.
How easy is it to change firm as I have to instruct one who is on the Clydesdale conveyancing list. I had appointed a high street conveyancing solicitor in South Yorkshire round the corner but she is not accepted by Clydesdale
It would be our pleasure to assist you select a conveyancing solicitor in South Yorkshire on the Clydesdale panel. Please note that the property lawyers that we on the directory do not pay us a referral fee if you instruct them and are authorised and regulated by the SRA who regulate all conveyancing solicitors in South Yorkshire. In making use of search facility on this site, you can compare and instruct different solicitors and conveyancers both nationally and in South Yorkshire.
A licensed conveyancer dealt with my conveyancing in South Yorkshire half a dozen years past having archived my deeds but has now closed – how do I retreive them?
Title deeds, as such, no longer exist as most homes in South Yorkshire are recorded electronically at Land Registry. Should you need to show ownership or are disposing of or refinancing your property lawyer should obtain up to date copies of the register from the Land Registry in any case.
If you feel there may be other documents or you have any other queries please e-mail your request with details of the transaction and documents you need to filerequest@clc-uk.org. The CLC will let you know what information they have and any additional information they may need before they are in a position to identify and send the documents to you. Following an intervention it may take some time for the CLC to access archived files and documents, but your request will be actioned as quickly as possible.