My brother-in-law has suggested I instruct a conveyancing solicitor in Summertown and Botley. I need to find out whether they are accepted on the The Royal Bank of Scotland approved list of lawyers. Could you help?

The first thing you should do is e-mail the solicitor and enquire whether they can act for the lender. Otherwise you can call The Royal Bank of Scotland who may be able to help.

My wife and I are buying a flat in Summertown and Botley. It might be a silly question but how we can trust a solicitor? At some point we have to put funds into their account. What protection do we have from them run away with our deposit?

Be assured that all money in a Solicitors client account is 100% safe, and even if your Solicitor ran off with it, the Law Society would reimburse you fully.

My partner and I have organised the release of further monies on our home loan from Clydesdale as we want to carry out a loft conversion to our property in Summertown and Botley. Are we obliged to select a high street Summertown and Botley solicitor on the Clydesdale conveyancing panel to handle the legals?

Clydesdale do not ordinarily instruct a member of their approved list of lawyers to handle such a matter. If they do require any legal work then you would need to ensure that such a lawyer was on the Clydesdale conveyancing panel.

I recently had an offer agreed on a house in Summertown and Botley. My financial adviser pressured me to appoint their lawyer. I paid an on account payment of £150. A couple of days later, the conveyancing practitioner called me to say that they were not on the Nationwide conveyancing panel. Am I right in thinking that I should be due a refund?

You should be able to recover this from the law firm if they were not on the Nationwide panel. They should have asked at the outset which lender you were obtaining a mortgage with. An important lesson to readers of this site is to check that the lawyers are on the appropriate lender panel.

The estate agent has sent us the confirmation of our purchase of a new build flat in Summertown and Botley. Conveyancing is a frightening process at the best of times but I have never purchased a new build flat before. What sort of enquires would be asked in new build legal work.

Set out below is a sample of a few leasehold new build questions that you may expect your new-build leasehold conveyancing in Summertown and Botley

Where there is an Undertaking being granted there is the risk of forfeiture of the Headlease subject to relief if one or more of the Underlessees are willing to accept the original Head Lessee’s obligations as otherwise relief will be denied to the Underlessees. The only alternatives are the Head Lessor agreeing not to forfeit the Headlease or the Head Lessee guaranteeing to the Underlessees that it will not be in breach of the Headlease. Will the freehold then be transferred for a nominal consideration (not exceeding £100) to the Management Company? The Landlord must covenant to assume the management if the Management Company goes into liquidation or otherwise defaults in running the management scheme. Investor purchasers must be able to freely grant unsecured tenancies at market rents without requiring any consents. Please supply a car parking plan.

How do I use the search tool to select a conveyancing practitioner in Summertown and Botley on the panel for my mortgage?

Step one is to select a lender such as HSBC Bank, Bank of Scotland or Nottingham Building Society then type in your location for instance Summertown and Botley. Conveyancing firms in Summertown and Botley and nationally should be shown.

Fiveweeks into a sale of a flat in Summertown and Botley. Conveyancing is fine but we have been asked to pay an extortionate amount from the landlord. So far we have paid £268 for a leasehold management pack and then a further £118 for supplemental questions supplied by the purchaser's property lawyer.

You will not have any say over the level of the bill for this information however the average fee for the information for Summertown and Botley leasehold premises is £380. When it comes to Summertown and Botley conveyancing deals it is usual 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. Regretfully there is no statute that mandates set fees for administrative tasks. Neither is there any prescriptive time frame by which they are obliged to issue answers.