My IFA requires my Worthing lawyer’ panel reference for the Nationwide conveyancing panel. Can you suggest how I obtain this. I have e-mailed my local Worthing branch but they cant find it on their system.

Have you tried contacting your Worthing conveyancing practitioner about this?. They should have a central record lender panel numbers.

My wife and I changing mortgage lender for our apartment in Worthing with Co-operative. We have a son 18 who lives with us. Our solicitor has asked us to disclose any adults other than ourselves who lives in the flat. Our lawyer has now e-mailed a document for our son to sign, giving up any rights in the event that the apartment is repossessed. I have a couple of concerns (1) Is this form unique to the Co-operative conveyancing panel as he did not need to sign this form when we remortgaged 3 years ago (2) In signing this form is our son in any way compromising his right to inherit the property?

On the face of it your lawyer has done nothing wrong as it is established procedure for any occupier who is aged 17 or over to sign the necessary Consent Form, which is purely to state that any rights he has in the property are postponed and secondary to Co-operative. This is solely used to protect Co-operative if the property were re-possessed so that in such circumstances, your son would be legally obliged to leave. It does not impact your son’s right to inherit the apartment. Please note that if your son were to inherit and the mortgage in favour of Co-operative had not been discharged, he would be liable to take over the loan or pay it off, but other than that, there is nothing stopping him from keeping the property in accordance with your will or the rules of intestacy.

I used Arc property Solicitors several years past for my conveyancing in Worthing. I now require my file however the law firm has closed. What do I do?

You should call the Solicitors Regulatory Authority (SRA) to help locate 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 Worthing 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.

Over the last few months I have been searching for a leasehold apartment up to £195,000 and identified one close by in Worthing I like with open areas and transport links in the vicinity, however it's only got 49 remaining years left on the lease. There is not much else in Worthing in this price bracket, so just wondered if I would be making a mistake acquiring a lease with such few years left?

Should you require a home loan the remaining unexpired lease term will likely be problematic. Discount the offer by the anticipated lease extension will cost if it has not already been discounted. If the current proprietor has owned the premises for at least twenty four months you may request that they commence the lease extension formalities and then assign it to you. You can add 90 years to the current lease term with a zero ground rent applied. You should consult your conveyancing solicitor about this.

My aunt completed her conveyancing in Worthing in 2007. She has been married, widowed and in recent months got remarried. She intends to market the property in a few weeks. I suspect that she will just be need to supply copies of her marriage papers to the solicitor but she is worried it will delay the sale of the property. Should she appoint a solicitor to update the Land Registry information for the property?

You are not required to update the title for the property providing you have the evidence required to show how the change of name resulted.

Any purchaser’s conveyancing practitioner should examine the land registry information and request evidence to establish the name change e.g. marriage documentation.