Having been referred to your company we were going to use a conveyancing solicitor in Dollis Hill recommended using your comparison tool but stumbled across some other costs illustrations via the web seem cheaper – why is this?
One can find plenty of conveyancing organisations promoting so-called cheap conveyancing, yet more often than not extracosts result in the final bill markedly uplifted. According to the Legal Ombudsman fees set out in terms and conditions should be equitable invoiced The conveyancers that we list for conveyancing in Dollis Hill set out all charges for a domestic conveyancing matter.
When it comes to mortgage companies such as UBS, do Dollis Hill lawyers have to pay a fee to be on the conveyancing panel?
We are unaware of any lender fees to register on their list of approved firms, although some do levy an administration charge to deal with the processing of the conveyancing panel application.
My wife and I are at the point of looking at houses in Dollis Hill and I am now considering a potential offer. Is it advisable to have my solicitor on ‘stand by’? I will be getting a home loan with Clydesdale.
You should start obtaining conveyancing estimates from solicitors ASAP. After you have chosen your lawyer and once your offer is accepted you can instruct them to work for you and pass their details on to the estate agent. As you are obtaining a mortgage with Clydesdale, make sure you remember to check that your lawyer is on the Clydesdale conveyancing panel.
After months of negotiation I have agreed a price on an apartment in Dollis Hill. My financial adviser pressured me to appoint their conveyancer. I paid an on account payment of £200. A few days later, the conveyancing practitioner called me sheepishly admitting that they were not on the Nottingham conveyancing panel. Am I right in thinking that I should be due a refund?
You should be able to recover this from the law firm if they were not on the Nottingham panel. They should have asked at the outset which lender you were obtaining a mortgage with. An important lesson to readers of this site is to check that the lawyers are on the appropriate lender panel.
I require quick conveyancing in Dollis Hill as I have pressure to complete within 3 weeks. Fortunately I do not require a mortgage. Can I decline from having conveyancing searches to save money and time?
As you are not getting a home loan you have the choice not to do searches although no law firm would recommend that you don't. With lots of history conveyancing in Dollis Hill the following are instances of what can crop up and adversely impact future mortgageability: Refused Planning Applications, Outstanding Fees, Outstanding Grants, Road Schemes,...
I used Arc property Solicitors several years ago for my conveyancing in Dollis Hill. Now, I need the files but 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 Dollis Hill of the conveyancing firm of solicitors you previously instructed, 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 flat in Dollis Hill. Conveyancing is a frightening process at the best of times but I have never purchased a new build flat before. What sort of enquires would be asked in new build conveyancing.
Here are examples of a selection of leasehold new build enquiries that you should expect your new-build leasehold conveyancing in Dollis Hill
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Please supply a car parking plan. The Landlord must covenant to assume the management if the Management Company goes into liquidation or otherwise defaults in running the management scheme. Where service of notices and proceedings can be at the property demised please confirm that this can be amended to include simultaneous services at the Lessees’ solicitors’ offices where the Lessee from time to time is not resident in the UK - such solicitors may be varied by notice in writing to the Landlord from time to time but otherwise will be as previously specified. The Vendor must covenant to keep unsold units in good repair until long leases are granted therefore. Please confirm the Lease plans are architect prepared.
Back In 2004, I bought a leasehold house in Dollis Hill. Conveyancing and Coventry Building Society mortgage are in place. A letter has just been received from someone saying they have taken over the freehold. Attached was a ground rent demand for rent dating back to 1994. The conveyancing solicitor in Dollis Hill who previously acted has now retired. Any advice?
First contact HMLR to make sure that this person is indeed the new freeholder. It is not necessary to incur the fees of a Dollis Hill conveyancing practitioner to do this as you can do this on the Land Registry website for a few pound. Rest assured that regardless, even if this is the rightful landlord, under the Limitation Act 1980 no more than 6 years of rent can be collected.
We have reached the end of our tether in trying to purchase the freehold in Dollis Hill. Can this matter be resolved via the Leasehold Valuation Tribunal?
You certainly can. We can put you in touch with a Dollis Hill conveyancing firm who can help.
An example of a Lease Extension case for a Dollis Hill residence is 12 Deacon Road in November 2012. the premium to be paid for the grant of the new lease was the sum of £31 ,635.00 (Thirty-One thousand and six hundred and thirty-five Pounds). The matter was then returned to the Willesden County Court for the completion of the grant of the new lease in substitution for the existing lease on payment into court the sum of £31,635.00 less the sum of £2,890.20 assessed costs incurred by the leaseholder. Thus the net sum of £28,744.80 was to be paid into court. This case was in relation to 1 flat. The unexpired term as at the valuation date was 61.98 years.