I was notified yesterday by my IFA that my West Ealing solicitor is not on the lender Conveyancing panel. What can I do to check?

You need to call your West Ealing lawyer directly. You lawyer should inform you what has happened. If they are not on the panel they could put your in touch with solicitors on the conveyancing panel for your lender.

My husband and I are buying a newly constructed apartment in West Ealing and my lawyer is informing me that she has to the mortgage company to reveal incentives from the builder. The Estate Agents are hassling me to sign contracts and I don't want to delay the conveyancing. is my lawyer playing by the book?

You should not exchange unless you have been advised to do so by your solicitor. A precondition to being on a bank panel is to comply with the UK Finance Lenders’ Handbook provisions. The CML Conveyancing Handbook requires that your lawyer have the appropriate Disclosure of Incentive form completed by the developer and accepted by your lender.

It has been five months since my purchase conveyancing in West Ealing completed. I have checked the Land Registry website which shows that I paid £175,000 when infact I paid £160,000. Why the discrepancy?

The price paid figure is taken from the application to register the purchase. It is the figure included in the Transfer (the legal deed which transfers the residence from one person to the other) and referred to as the 'consideration' or purchase price. You can report an error in the price paid figure using the LR online form. In most cases errors result from typos so at first glance the figure. Do report it so they can double check and advise.

The estate agent has sent us the confirmation of our purchase of a new build flat in West Ealing. Conveyancing is necessary evil 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 selection of leasehold new build enquiries that you can expect your new-build leasehold conveyancing in West Ealing

The Lease must contain a provision on behalf of the Vendor to pay the service charges in respect of unoccupied units in order to ensure that all services can be provided. Please confirm the Lease plans are surveyor prepared. There must be mutual enforceability of lessee’s covenants. Investor purchasers must be able to freely grant unsecured tenancies at market rents without requiring any consents.

What are my options where I am not happy with the property lawyer who carried out my conveyancing in West Ealing?

We live in an imperfect world, and is is a fact of life that occasionally things do go wrong. Nevertheless there is recourse if you were not happy with your conveyancing in West Ealing. This varies from trying to resolve matters directly with them, through to reporting a solicitor to their governing body. If you remain unhappy you may consider getting in touch with the Legal Ombudsman.