I am need of leasehold conveyancing for an apartment in a relatively new development (6 years old) in Southam. Almost all the properties are already occupied. Do I need carry out the local searches as part of conveyancing in Southam?

If you are purchasing a property with the assistance of a mortgage, your mortgage company will require some (many) of the searches so you'll have no choice. If not, then Southam conveyancing searches are optional. No doubt your conveyancer, will 'advise', perhaps in the strongest possible terms, that you should not go ahead without searches, but he or she has a professional duty to do this. One thing to bear in mind; if you are likely to sell the house one day, it may be of interest to your future buyer what the searches contain. Sometimes houses with no practical issues can still throw up adverse search results. But if you choose to instruct your lawyer to proceed without searches then your lawyer will have to follow your instructions or it may be necessary to find a new lawyer for your conveyancing in Southam.

I am due to move house in March. Should my conveyancing solicitor call the removal company on the day of completion. On a separate note, can you suggest a removal company in Southam. Conveyancing firm was chosen prior to coming across your website.

On the day of completion you will need to collect the keys from your selling agent however this should only be done after the sellers conveyancers confirm to the agent that the monies to complete are in and the keys can be passed over. You will need to advise the removal company that they can start moving you in. We do not recommend a particular removal organisation but can help you choose a conveyancing in Southam or a lawyer with expertise in conveyancing in Southam.

Can you point me to a directory of Nottingham panel solicitors in Southam on the UK Finance Lenders’ Handbook Website?

Unfortunately not yet. There is no such tool on the CML or Building Society Association websites. A small selection of lending institutions make their panel listings available online. If you are in need of a Southam conveyancing practitioner on the Nottingham please use our facility.

We are getting a further advance on our home loan from TSB as we intend to conduct alterations to our house in Southam. Do we need to choose a bricks and mortar Southam solicitor on the TSB conveyancing panel to deal with the legals?

TSB would not normally require firms on their approved list of lawyers to deal with such a matter. If they do require any legal work then you would need to ensure that such a lawyer was on the TSB conveyancing panel.

My colleague recommended that where I am buying in Southam I should ask my conveyancer to execute a Neighbourhood, Planning and Local Amenity Search. Can you explain what the purpose of this search is?

A search of this type is sometimes quoted for as part of the standard Southam conveyancing searches. It is a large report of about 40 pages, listing and detailing important information about Southam around the property and the people living there. It includes an Aerial Photograph, Planning Applications, Land Use, Mobile Phone Masts, Rights of Way, the Southam Housing Market, Council Tax Banding, the type of People living in the area, the dominant type of Housing, the Average House Prices, Crime statistics, Southam Education with plans and statistics, Local Amenities and other useful data about Southam.

I am four weeks into a freehold purchase having been directed to solicitors by the estate agent to handle our conveyancing in Southam. I am not happy. Could you you assist me in finding new conveyancers?

A lawyer would have to be really bad to suggest changing them. Has the mortgage offer been issued? If so you need to make them aware of the new solicitor and get the loan are re-issued. Your solicitor ideally should be on the lenders approved list to avoid supplemental charges and frustration. So that should be your starting point. Our find a solicitor tool can assist you in finding a lender approved solicitor for your home move in Southam

Can you provide any advice for leasehold conveyancing in Southam from the perspective of saving time on the sale process?

• Much of the frustration in leasehold conveyancing in Southam can be bypassed if you get in touch lawyers as soon as you market your property and ask them to put together the leasehold information which will be required by the buyers’ lawyers.
If you have the benefit of shareholding in the Management Company, you should make sure that you have the original share document. Organising a re-issued share certificate is often a time consuming formality and frustrates many a Southam home move. Where a new share is necessary, do contact the company director and secretary or managing agents (where relevant) for this at the earliest opportunity. You believe that you know the number of years remaining on your lease but it would be advisable double-check via your solicitors. A purchaser's conveyancer will be unlikely to recommend their client to where the remaining number of years is below 80 years. It is therefore important at an early stage that you identify whether the lease term for your property needs extending. If it does, contact your solicitors before you put your premises on the market for sale. In the event that you altered the property did you need the Landlord’s permission? In particular have you installed wooden flooring? Southam leases often stipulate that internal structural alterations or installing wooden flooring require a licence from the Landlord acquiescing to such works. Should you dont have the consents to hand you should not communicate with the landlord without contacting your solicitor in advance.

Southam Leasehold Conveyancing - Examples of Questions you should consider Prior to buying

What prohibitions are contained in the Southam Lease? Where a Southam lease has fewer than 80 years it will impact the marketability of the apartment. Check with your lender that they are willing to lend given the lease term. Leases with less than 80 years remaining means that you will most likely need a lease extension sooner rather than later and it is worth discovering what this would cost. For most Southamlease extensions you would be required to have owned the residence for a couple of years before you are eligible to extend the lease.