Please could you suggest a Santander approved Cardigan conveyancing practice who can have us moved in within under 3 weeks? Would it be better to use a local Cardigan practice or an online comparison site?
We would be happy to suggest some excellent Cardigan conveyancing firms. Another option is to visit the high street in Cardigan. Approach two or three law practices and ask to speak with a conveyancing solicitor for a costs illustration. Explain your requirements together with your reasons and ask for a commitment on your deadline. Appoint the lawyer that appears most efficient.
Are the Cardigan conveyancing solicitors identified as being on the RBS conveyancing panel, together with their details provided by RBS?
Cardigan conveyancing firms themselves provide us confirmation that they are on the RBS conveyancing panel as opposed to being supplied with a list from RBS directly.
Is there a search tool that I can utilise to investigate if the solicitor conducting my conveyancing in Cardigan is on the bank’sapproved panel? I am looking to avoid the situation of having one lawyer for me and one for Virgin Money thus spending £175.00 in further legal invoice.
You should make the most of the search tool on this web page. Pick the lender and type ‘Cardigan’ or your location and you will be presented with numerous conveyancers offices in Cardigan or near you.
A friend advised me that where I am purchasing in Cardigan I should ask my conveyancer to carry out a Neighbourhood, Planning and Local Amenity Search. What does it cover?
A search of this type is usually included in the estimate for your Cardigan conveyancing searches. It is not a small report of more than thirty pages, listing and detailing significant information about Cardigan around the property and the people living there. It includes an Aerial Photograph, Planning Applications, Land Use, Mobile Phone Masts, Rights of Way, the Cardigan Housing Market, Council Tax Banding, the type of People living in the area, the dominant type of Housing, the Average House Prices, Crime details, Cardigan Education with plans and statistics, Local Amenities and other useful data regarding Cardigan.
I am thinking of appointing a conveyancing solicitor in Cardigan for my purchase. Is it possible to see a solicitor's complaints history with the legal regulator?
You can review presented Solicitor Regulator Association (SRA) decisions arising from investigations from 2008 onwards. Go to Check a solicitor's record. For information Pre 2008, or to check a solicitors record, phone 0870 606 2555, 08.00 - 18.00 Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and 09.30 - 18.00 Tuesday. For callers outside the UK, use +44 (0)121 329 6800. The regulator sometimes recorded telephone calls for training reasons.
Myself and my husband have recently had an offer agreed on a flat and had meeting on Monday with Nationwide for the mortgage. They have informed us that when it comes to choosing a property lawyer that if they are not on their approved list of property lawyers then we will incur an additional charge of £200. This is is due to the fact that they will then have to appoint a property lawyer to act on their behalf in addition to the one we appoint on our behalf and we will be on the hook for their costs. I have asked Nationwide to supply me with a list so I can obtain quotes only from their approved solicitors but was told that I need to check with each individual lawyer to see if they are on the panel. What would be the best way of going about this?
You can enquire of Nationwide what their panel criteria is for a conveyancer.Thereafter ask the solicitor of your choice whether they fit that criteria and have they acted on mortgages for Nationwide previously. Where the answer to those is yes, then just clarify this with Nationwide. Another option is to utilise our search facility and we should be able to identify a lawyer in Cardigan on the panel for Nationwide.