I have just been advised by my IFA that my Alfriston property lawyer is not on the bank Solicitor panel. What can I do to check?
The best course of action for you to take is to call your Alfriston lawyer directly. You lawyer should inform you what has happened. If they are not on the panel they could put your in touch with solicitors on the approved list of lawyers for your mortgage company.
I just bought a flat at auction in Alfriston. Conveyancing is required. What are my next steps?
Having to in every practical sense signed on the dotted line you should appoint a conveyancing lawyer soon as you now have a fast approaching a fixed date to complete the property. An auction property should have a bespoke legal set of papers. This will likely include evidence of title and search results. Where you are dealing with leasehold premises the legal papers may include a copy of the lease, management information and a sellers leasehold information form and other conveyancing paperwork pertinent to a leasehold property. You should give this to the lawyer instructed by you at the earliest opportunity. You also need to ensure that you have funds in place to complete the transaction on the set completion date.
We have a mortgage agreed in principle with Virgin Money. Alfriston conveyancing practitioners have been chosen. What is the average time that one could expect to receive a mortgage offer from Virgin Money?
Some lenders take longer than others. Have Virgin Money completed the survey? Have you advised Virgin Money as to your lawyers' details and checked that your lawyers are on the Virgin Money conveyancing panel? It is not unusual for a mortgage offer to take a month to come through.
Completion of my remortgage has taken place for my property in Alfriston. Conveyancing was satisfactory but I would like to complain about the lender. Who do I contact should I wish to lodge a complaint?
All lenders have complaints procedures. Your first point of contact should be one of the lender’s branches or the Customer Care Team at head office. Ordinarily complaints to a lender are sorted out very quickly. If you feel the matter is not resolved you can write to Financial Ombudsman Service who will take matters further.
The estate agent has sent us the confirmation of our purchase of a new build apartment in Alfriston. Conveyancing is necessary evil at the best of times but I have never purchased a new build flat before. Can you give me some examples of some of the questions asked in new build conveyancing.
Here is a sample of a selection of leasehold new build enquiries that you can expect your new-build leasehold conveyancing in Alfriston
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Investor purchasers must be able to freely grant unsecured tenancies at market rents without requiring any consents. 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. Will control of the Management Company (if any) be handed over to purchasers on completion of the last sale or earlier?
I've recently found out that there is a flying freehold issue on a house I put an offer in a fortnight ago in what was supposed to be a simple, no chain conveyancing. Alfriston is where the house is located. What do you suggest?
Flying freeholds in Alfriston are unusual but are more likely to exist in relation to terraced houses. Even though you don't necessarily need a conveyancing solicitor in Alfriston you must be sure that your lawyer goes through the deeds thoroughly. Your mortgage company may require your conveyancing solicitor to take out an indemnity policy. Some of the more diligent conveyancing solicitors in Alfriston may determine that this is not enough and that the deeds be re-written to give you the most up to date legal protection. If so, the next door neighbour also had to sign up to the revised deeds.It is possible that your lender will not accept the situation so the sooner you find out the better. You should also check with your insurance broker as to whether they will insure a flying freehold residence.
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My partner and I are purchasing a garden flat in Alfriston. When we first instructed conveyancer, they told us that they were on all mainstream mortgage company panels. Our mortgage broker emailed just now to say that they are not on the Principality approved list. Should that be true, what should we do? Should we just find a new conveyancing practitioner that is on their approved list or do we cover the costs for separate representation, with Principality selecting their own approved conveyancing practitioner.
When buying a property with mortgage finance it is standard for the buyer’s solicitors to also act for the mortgage company. In order to act for a bank or building society a lawyer has to be on that lender's list of approved lawyers. An application has to be made by the conveyancer to the lender to become a member of the lender's panel and there are increasingly strict criteria which the conveyancer has to satisfy. Some building societies now require their panel firms to be part of the Law Society’s Conveyancing Accreditation Scheme. Your solicitor should call Principality to discover if they can apply for membership of their conveyancing panel, but if that is not viable they will instruct their own solicitors to act. You are not legally obliged to appoint a law firm on Principality's conveyancing panel and you may continue to use your own Alfriston solicitors, in which case it will likely add costs, and it may delay matters as you have another set of people involved.