I was recommended to a lawyer who has quoted £1700 for fixed fee conveyancing in Chew Magna. I’m looking to sell a modern house for £250,000. This appears over the top. Is it above the norm for conveyancing in Chew Magna?
The estimate does seem a tad steep. If you shop around you might reduce the fees slightly by say a hundred pounds. That being said, you couldlive to regret choosing an a cheaper conveyancer. Don't forget to enquire the firm can represent your bank. You can utilise our search tool to select a Chew Magna conveyancing firm on the banks approved list of lawyers which can often include conveyancing solicitors in Chew Magna.
Can I use your services to find a Conveyancing solicitor in Chew Magna even if I’m not buying or selling a house, for example if I intend to buy a shop in Chew Magna with a mortgage from Skipton Building Society?
Our comparison service is mainly there to get a quote from residential conveyancing solicitors in Chew Magna but we have set out at the bottom of this page a selection of Chew Magna commercial conveyancing firms. You should make contact with the firm directly to establish if they are also authorised to represent Skipton Building Society
I am told that my conveyancing solicitors will need to check that the building insurance for my purchase of a house in Chew Magna. My lender is The Mortgage Works
The Mortgage Works have specific requirements as set out in the UK Finance Lenders’ Handbook. As of 29/4/2024, the requirements read as follows :
My relative suggested that where I am buying in Chew Magna I should carry out a Neighbourhood, Planning and Local Amenity Search. What does it cover?
This is a search is occasionally quoted for as part of the standard Chew Magna conveyancing searches. It is not a small document of more than thirty pages, listing and setting out important information about Chew Magna around the property and the people living there. It incorporates an Aerial Photograph, Planning Applications, Land Use, Mobile Phone Masts, Rights of Way, the local Housing Market, Council Tax Banding, the demographics of People living in the area, the dominant type of Housing, the Average Property Price, Crime statistics, Local Education with plans and statistics, Local Amenities and other useful information regarding Chew Magna.
There are only Fifty years unexpired on my lease in Chew Magna. I now wish to extend my lease but my freeholder is can not be found. What should I do?
If you qualify, under the Leasehold Reform, Housing and Urban Development Act 1993 you can apply to the County Court for an order to dispense with the service of the initial notice. This will enable the lease to be extended by the Court. However, you will be required to demonstrate that you or your lawyers have made all reasonable attempts to locate the landlord. In some cases an enquiry agent would be useful to conduct investigations and prepare an expert document to be accepted by the court as proof that the freeholder is indeed missing. It is wise to seek advice from a property lawyer in relation to proving the landlord’s disappearance and the application to the County Court overseeing Chew Magna.
I invested in buying a split level flat in Chew Magna, conveyancing having been completed September 2007. Can you let me have an estimated range of the fair premium for a lease extension? Equivalent properties in Chew Magna with over 90 years remaining are worth £195,000. The ground rent is £45 invoiced every year. The lease comes to an end on 21st October 2088
With only 64 years unexpired we estimate the price of your lease extension to be between £14,300 and £16,400 plus professional fees.
The figure above a general guide to costs for renewing a lease, but we cannot give you a more accurate figure without more detailed due diligence. You should not use the figures in tribunal or court proceedings. There are no doubt other issues that need to be taken into account and clearly you want to be as accurate as possible in your negotiations. Neither should you move forward placing reliance on this information before seeking the advice of a professional.
Myself and my partner have just had an offer agreed on a apartment and had an appointment on Wednesday with HSBC for the mortgage. They have informed us that when it comes to choosing a conveyancing practitioner that if they are not on their approved panel of conveyancers then we will be subject to an a further charge of £200. This is because they will then have to select a solicitor to act for them as well as the one we choose to act for ourselves and we will be on the hook for their invoice. I have asked HSBC to supply me with a list so I can seek estimates only from their approved conveyancers but was told that I need to check with each individual solicitor to see if they are on the panel. Is there a simple way of finding out who is on a lender panel?
Ask HSBC what their criteria for joining their panel is for a conveyancer.Then ask the conveyancer of your choice whether they meet the criteria and have they acted on mortgages for HSBC in the past. If the answer to those is yes, then just clarify this with HSBC. Alternatively please utilise our search tool and we should be able to identify a solicitor in Chew Magna on the approved list for HSBC.