I used Wolstenholmes a few years past for my conveyancing in Wood Green. I now require my file however the law firm is no longer operating. What do I do?

Do call the Solicitors Regulatory Authority (SRA) to assist in tracking down 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 Wood Green of the conveyancing firm of solicitors you previously used, the name of conveyancing solicitor with whom you had dealings, and the date on which you last had dealings with the firm.

I am buying a new build house in Wood Green benefiting from help to buy. The builders refused to budge the price so I negotiated five thousand pounds worth of additionals instead. The house builders rep told me not reveal to my conveyancer about the side-deal as it could jeopardize my loan with the lender. Is this normal?.

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.

I'm converting the mortgage on my primary property to a BTL mortgage with Barnsley Building Society and I will use the rest of the raised equity as a deposit on another house. The location we are interested in is Wood Green. Will your conveyancers be able to act for the two mortgage companies and tie in the transactions?

Do use our comparison tool on this site to ensure that the solicitors are approved by both lenders. On the basis that they are your lawyer will be able to simultaneously deal with the two transactions but you should talk with you lawyer and specify your desired outcome and requirements.

We're FTB’s - agreed a price, but the property agent has warned us that the seller will only move forward if we appoint the agent's preferred solicitors as they want an ‘expedited deal’. My instinct tells me that we should use a local conveyancer used to conveyancing in Wood Green

We suspect that the seller is unaware of this ultimatum. Should the owner desire ‘a quick sale', taking such a hostile approach to a genuine purchaser is not the way to achieve this. Contact the vendors directly and explain that (a)you are genuine purchasers (b)you are excited to move forward, with finances arranged © you have nothing to sell (d) you intend to proceed fast (e)but you intend to instruct your preferred Wood Green conveyancing solicitors - as opposed tothose that will earn the negotiator at the agency a referral fee or achieve conveyancing thresholds set by head office.

I have read on numerous consumer advice websites that before selecting a conveyancing solicitors they must be approved by your bank. It happens to be my first home move but I have an AIP via HSBC and I already have a bricks and morter conveyancing lawyer in Wood Green at the ready. Does Nat West Bank require an approved lawyer to be used? Does a directory of approved conveyancers even exist so I can choose a conveyancing solicitor in Wood Green?

You need to instruct a solicitor that is on the Nat West Bank panel. The first thing to do is telephone your chosen Wood Green conveyancing lawyer to check if they are on the Nat West Bank panel. If they are not on the panel you have a couple of choices available to you here:

• Complete the purchase with your preferred Wood Green lawyer but Nat West Bank will need to use a lawyer on their approved panel. The net result is additional charges and probable interruption.
• Appoint a fresh property lawyer to act in the purchase, making sure they are on the Nat West Bank conveyancing panel.
• Convince your conveyancer to do everything within their powers to join the Nat West Bank conveyancing panel.