When it comes to mortgage companies such as RBS, do Taplow solicitors face a yearly amount to be on the list of approved solicitors?

We are unaware of any bank fees to be on their panel, although some do charge an administration charge to deal with the processing of the conveyancing panel submission.

My wife and I are spending time looking at flats in Taplow and I am about to put in an offer. Should I already have a conveyancing practitioner appointed at this stage? I intend to finance via a home loan with Skipton.

It would be wise to start your search sooner rather than later. After you have chosen your lawyer and once your offer is accepted you can instruct them to work for you and pass their contact information on to the EA. Given that you are obtaining a mortgage with Skipton, make sure you remember to check that your lawyer is on the Skipton conveyancing panel.

After months of negotiation I have agreed a price on an apartment in Taplow. My financial adviser suggested a conveyancing practitioner. I paid an upfront payment of £175. A couple of days later, the solicitor called me embarrassingly acknowledging that they were not on the Principality 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 Principality 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.

My relative recommended that where I am buying in Taplow I should ask my conveyancer to execute a Neighbourhood, Planning and Local Amenity Search. What does it cover?

A search of this type is sometimes included in the estimate for your Taplow conveyancing searches. It is a large report of more than thirty pages, listing and setting out significant information about Taplow around the property and the people living there. It includes an Aerial Photograph, Planning Applications, Land Use, Mobile Phone Masts, Rights of Way, the Taplow Housing Market, Council Tax Banding, the type of People living in the area, the dominant type of Housing, the Average Property Price, Crime details, Local Education with plans and statistics, Local Amenities and other useful data regarding Taplow.

I acquired my home on 9 April and my personal details is yet to be registered. Need I be worried? My conveyancing solicitor in Taplow expressed confidence that it should be registered in a couple of weeks. Are titles in Taplow particularly slow to register?

There is nothing unique when it comes to conveyancing in Taplow registration formalities. Rather than based on location, timescales can vary subject to who lodges the application, whether there are errors and whether the Land registry communicate with any interested persons or bodies. At present approximately 80% of submission are fully addressed in less than three weeks but occasionally there can be protracted delays. Registration is effected once the new owner has moved in to the property therefore 'speed' is not typically top priority but if there is a degree of urgency associated with the registration then you or your conveyancer should contact the land registry and explain the circumstances.

Just had an offer accepted on a new build flat in Taplow. Conveyancing is daunting at the best of times but I have never purchased a new build flat before. Can you give me some examples of some of the questions asked in new build conveyancing.

Set out below is a sample of a few leasehold new build questions that you can expect your new-build leasehold conveyancing in Taplow

There must be mutual enforceability of lessee’s covenants. Will the freehold then be transferred for a nominal consideration (not exceeding £100) to the Management Company? Will control of the Management Company (if any) be handed over to purchasers on completion of the last sale or earlier? Investor purchasers must be able to freely grant unsecured tenancies at market rents without requiring any consents.

I decided to have a survey completed on a property in Taplow prior to appointing conveyancers. I have been told that there is a flying freehold overhang to the property. Our surveyor advised that some banks may refuse to issue a loan on this type of house.

It varies from the lender to lender. HSBC has different instructions for example to Birmingham Midshires. If you contact us we can check via the relevant lender. If you lender is happy to lend one our lawyers can help as they are used to dealing with flying freeholds in Taplow. Conveyancing may be slightly more expensive based on your lender's requirements.