I am helping my mother sell her property in St Andrews. Will the conveyancing solicitor commission an energy performance certificate or do I organise this?
After the demise of HIPs, energy performance certificates was maintained a mandatory element of moving house. An EPC needs to be commissioned prior to the property being advertised. It is not a task that law firms ordinarily organise. If you are instructing a St Andrews conveyancing lawyer they may be willing to arrange energy performance certificates due to their relationships with long established St Andrews providers
I am due to move house in April. Should my conveyancing solicitor communicate with the removal company on the day of completion. Incidentally, can you put forward a removal company in St Andrews. Conveyancing lawyer was organised before I stumbled across your site.
On the afternoon of completion you will need to collect the house keys from your estate agent however this can only happen after the sellers solicitors confirm to the agent that they have the completion monies and the keys can be given over. Subsequently you will need to advise the removal company that you are ready to move in. We do not suggest a particular removal organisation but can assist you in finding a residential property solicitor in St Andrews or a solicitor that specialises in conveyancing in St Andrews.
How can we know in advance if a St Andrews conveyancing solicitor on the HSBC panel is any good?
When it comes to conveyancing in St Andrews seeking recommendations is a sensible starting point. Before you go ahead, check if they offer a no sale no fee offer. Also, you often get what you pay for - a firm which quotes more, will often provide a better service than one which is cheap as chips. We would always suggest that you speak with the solicitor carrying out your transaction.
I understand that there are debates on Chancel Insurance on online forums. Do I require chancel insurance when buying a residence in St Andrews? or I am told that there is a law dating back centuries that means some owners of property residing in a parish church boundary will be compelled to pay for repairs towards the chancel within the church. Is this appropriate for conveyancing in St Andrews?
Unless a prior acquisition of the property completed post 12 October 2013 you may assume that conveyancing practitioners handling conveyancing in St Andrews to continue to propose a a chancel search and or chancel repair liability insurance.
I purchased my flat on 7 April and the transaction details are still not registered. Need I be worried? My conveyancing solicitor in St Andrews expressed confidence that it will be registered inside ten days. Are titles in St Andrews uniquely lengthy to register?
There is nothing unique about conveyancing in St Andrews registration formalities. Rather than based on location, timescales can vary subject to who lodges the application, whether there are errors and if the Land registry must send notices to any other persons or bodies. At present approximately three quarters of submission are fully addressed within 12 days but some can be subject to longer hold-ups. Historically registration is effected after the buyer is living at the property thus an expedited registration is not typically top priority yet if there is a degree of urgency associated with the registration then you or your lawyers could communicate with the Registry to express the reasoning for an expedited registration.
I have been recommended by a number of selling agents in St Andrews to select a conveyancer using your seach tool. What’s the financial incentive for Estate Agents to recommend your services rather than a competitor’s?
We refuse to offer any referral fee for pointing buyers and sellers in our direction. We thought it would be too underhand to pay a commission as a client could think, ‘How come the agent getting a kickback? Why am I not receiving any benefit too?’ So we decided to step away from that.
As co-executor for the will of my aunt I am disposing of a property in Neath but live in St Andrews. My lawyer (who is 300 miles from merequires that I sign a stat dec prior to the transaction finalising. Can you recommend a conveyancing practitioner in St Andrews to attest this legal document for me?
strictly speaking you should not need to have the documents witnessed by a conveyancing solicitor. Normally any notary public or solicitor will be fine regardless of whether they are St Andrews based