Having sold my house in Townhill last February yet the purchaser is SMS messaging me to say his lawyer needs to hear from mine. What should my lawyer have done now that I have sold?
Following your sale your lawyer is duty bound to send the transfer deeds and all supplemental paperwork to the buyer’s conveyancer. Depending on the transaction, your lawyer should also send confirmation that the legal charge in favour of the lender has been paid off to the buyers lawyers. There is unlikely to be post completion tasks just for conveyancing in Townhill.
My Conveyancer in Townhill has never been on on the Approved Panel. Is it possible for me to retain my prefered solicitor even though they are excluded from the panel of approved conveyancing solicitors?
Your options are as follows:
- Carry on with your preferred Townhill solicitors but will need to use a lawyer on their list of acceptable firms. This will inevitably rack up the total legal charges and cause frustration.
- Find an alternative solicitor to act in the purchase, remembering to check they are Persuade your conveyancer to use their best endeavours to join the conveyancing panel
I am selling our home in Townhill and the buyers lawyers are claiming that there is a risk of it being built on contaminated land. A high street Townhill lawyer would know that there is no such problem. For the life of me I don't know why the buyers are using an online conveyancing practice as opposed to a conveyancing solicitor in Townhill. We have lived in Townhill for 5 years we know that this is a non issue. Should we contact our local Authority to seek confirmation that the buyers are looking for.
It sounds as though you may have a conveyancing solicitor currently acting for you. What do they say? You need to check with your lawyer before you do anything. It is very possible that once the local authority has been informed of a potential issue it cannot be insured against (a bit like being diagnosed with a serious illness and then taking out life insurance to cover that same illness)
I have justdiscovered that Stirling Law have closed. They conducted my conveyancing in Townhill for a purchase of a leasehold flat 10 months ago. How can I be sure that my home is registered correctly in the name of the former proprietor?
The quickest way to see if the property is in your name, you can make a search of the land registry (£3.00). You can either do this yourself or ask a law firm to do this for you. If you are not registered you can seek help from one of a number of Townhill conveyancing specialists.
I have been on the look out for a leasehold apartment up to £195,000 and identified one near me in Townhill I like with amenity areas and transport links in the vicinity, however it only has 49 years unexpired on the lease. I can't really find anything else in Townhill suitable, so just wondered if I would be making a grave error acquiring a lease with such few years left?
Should you require a mortgage the remaining unexpired lease term may be problematic. Discount the offer by the amount the lease extension will cost if not already taken into account. If the existing owner has owned the property for at least twenty four months you could request that they commence the lease extension formalities and pass it to you. You can add 90 years to the current lease and have £0 ground rent by law. You should consult your conveyancing solicitor regarding this.