I am purchasing a terraced house in Tilehurst. Can I do my own conveyancing?

Leaving aside the complexities and merits of DIY conveyancing in Tilehurst you will have to appoint a solicitor on your lender's conveyancing panel to look after their interests. Most people therefore find it easier to let the solicitor act for them and the lender. Furthermore there is minimal cost savings to be made in you doing conveyancing for yourself and another lawyer conducting the conveyancing for the lender. Please feel free to use the search tool to find a lawyer on your lender panel in Tilehurst.

My relative suggested that where I am buying in Tilehurst 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 usually included in the estimate for your Tilehurst conveyancing searches. It is a large report of about 40 pages, listing and detailing important information about Tilehurst around the property and the people living there. It includes an Aerial Photograph, Planning Applications, Land Use, Mobile Phone Masts, Rights of Way, the local Housing Market, Council Tax Banding, the demographics of People living in the area, the dominant type of Housing, the Average Property Price, Crime statistics, Local Education with plans and statistics, Local Amenities and other useful data concerning Tilehurst.

I am purchasing my first flat in Tilehurst with the aid of help to buy. The sellers would not budge the amount so I negotiated £7000 of additionals instead. The estate agent advised me not reveal to my solicitor about the deal as it may jeopardize my mortgage with the bank. Should I keep quiet?.

All lenders require a Disclosure of Incentives Form from the developer of any new build, converted or renovated property, It is available online from the Lenders’ Handbook page on the CML website. CML form is completed and handed to the lender's surveyor when the inspection is done.

Lenders have different policies on incentives. Some accept none at all, cash or physical, while others will accept cash incentives up to 5%.

Hard to understand why the representative of a builder would be suggesting you withold information from a solicitor when all this will be clearly visible on forms the builder has to supply to its solicitor, the buyer's solicitor and the surveyor.

Due to the encouragement of my in-laws I had a survey completed on a house in Tilehurst before appointing conveyancers. I have been told that there is a flying freehold aspect to the house. The surveyor has said that some mortgage companies tend refuse to issue a loan on a flying freehold house.

It depends who your proposed lender is. Lloyds has different instructions from Birmingham Midshires. Should you wish to call us we can check via the appropriate lender. If you lender is happy to lend one our lawyers can help as they are accustomed to dealing with flying freeholds in Tilehurst. Conveyancing can be more complicated and therefore you should check with your conveyancing solicitor in Tilehurst to see if the conveyancing costs will increase in light of this.

I am looking into buying my first house which is in Tilehurst and I am already nervous. I couldn't find anything specific about Tilehurst. Conveyancing will be needed in due course but do you know about the Tilehurst area? or perhaps some other tips you can share?

Rather than looking online forget looking online you should go and have a look at Tilehurst. In the meantime here are some basic statistics that we found