Finally the sale completed on my house in Walmley last December but our buyer keeps whats apping every few hours to say his conveyancer is waiting to hear from mysolicitor. What should my lawyer have done following completion?

Following your sale your lawyer is duty bound to forward the transfer deeds and all supplemental paperwork to the purchaser's conveyancer. If applicable, your solicitor must also send confirmation that the home loan has been repaid to the buyers conveyancers. There is unlikely to be post completion formalities specific conveyancing in Walmley.

We are buying a property and the solicitor has identified Chancel Repair to which the property may be obligated to contribute to given it’s proximity to the area of such a church. She has mentioned insurance. Is this really appropriate for conveyancing in Walmley

Unless a prior purchase of the property took place after 12 October 2013 you could take it that conveyancing practitioners handling conveyancing in Walmley to continue to recommend a chancel search and or insurance against a claim.

I used Stirling Law a few years ago for my conveyancing in Walmley. Now, I need the documents however the law firm is no longer operating. What do I do?

You should contact the Solicitors Regulatory Authority (SRA) to assist in tracing your conveyancing files. They can be contacted on please contact on 0870 606 2555. Alternatively, you should use their online form to make an enquiry. You will need to provide the SRA with as much information as possible to assist their search, including the name and address in Walmley of the conveyancing firm of solicitors you previously hired, the name of conveyancing solicitor with whom you had dealings, and the date on which you last had dealings with the firm.

I am thinking of appointing a conveyancing solicitor in Walmley for my house move. Is there any facility to check a solicitor's record with the profession’s regulator?

One may see published Solicitor Regulator Association (SRA) determinations arising from investigations from 2008 onwards. Go to Check a solicitor's record. To find details about the period before 1 January 2008, or to check a solicitors record, phone 0870 606 2555, 08.00 - 18.00 any week day save for Tuesday when lines open at 9.30am. For callers outside the UK, use +44 (0)121 329 6800. The SRA sometimes recorded call for training reasons.

We are about to buying a home in Walmley. Conveyancing is not yet done but we would like have our transaction price confidential from sites such as Nestoria. How can this be achieved ?

HMLR by statute are required to specify price sold information on a register of the title for residential properties countrywide including homes in Walmley. The register of title is a public document, so HM Land Registry would be breaching their statutory duty excluded specific homes such as the property in Walmley.

In essence you can make a request of HMLR to withhold the price paid entry yet the response will be a No.