Willinstructing a Belvedere conveyancing firm make the ownership transfer easier?
In the main conveyancing lawyers in your location will enjoy good connections with your local authority, which could assist with your Belvedere conveyancing searches that your lawyer will require. It can only be a plus if they have strong rapport with the Local Land Registry Office your area Belvedere, other property lawyers in the area and Belvedere Estate Agents.
As someone unfamiliar with the Belvedere conveyancing process what is your top tip you can impart concerning the home moving process in Belvedere
You may not hear this from too many lawyers but conveyancing in Belvedere and elsewhere in South East London is an adversarial experience. Put another way, when it comes to conveyancing there is plenty of room for conflict between you and other parties involved in the ownership transfer. For instance, the vendor, estate agent and on occasion a bank. Selecting a lawyer for your conveyancing in Belvedere an important selection as your conveyancer is your adviser, and is the ONLY person in the transaction whose interest is to look after your best interests and to protect you.
There is a distinct ongoing adversarial element to conveyancing- someone must be at fault for the process being so protracted. You must always trust your conveyancer ahead of the other players when it comes to the legal assignment of property.
I am told that my conveyancing solicitors will need to check that the building insurance when buying a house in Belvedere. My lender is Platform
Platform have specific requirements as set out in the UK Finance Lenders’ Handbook. As of 20/11/2025, the requirements read as follows :
Have just purchased a probate house at auction in Belvedere. Conveyancing is required. What are my next steps?
Now that you have exchanged you now have to choose a conveyancing practitioner quickly as you will have a pending a drop dead date to complete the property. An auction property should have a corresponding auction pack. This will likely include the copy title deeds, local authority and drainage searches. Where you are dealing with leasehold premises the legal pack may include a copy of the lease, management information and a sellers leasehold information form and associated conveyancing paperwork relating to a leasehold property. You must hand this to the conveyancer working for you ASAP. Do make sure that your finances are in order to complete on the on the contractual date .
We are buying a 3 bedroom semi in Belvedere. The intention is to carry out a loft conversion at the property.Will the conveyancing process include checks to determine if these alterations are permitted?
Your solicitor should check the deeds as conveyancing in Belvedere will occasionally reveal restrictions in the title deeds which prevent certain works or necessitated the consent of another owner. Many additions require local authority planning permissions and approval in compliance with building regulations. Many locations are designated conservation areas and special planning restrictions apply which often prevent or impact extensions. It would be sensible to check these issues with a surveyor ahead of any purchase.
The formalities of my remortgage has taken place for my property in Belvedere. 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. In most cases complaints to a lender are sorted out very quickly. However if you are not satisfied that the matter is not resolved you can write to Financial Ombudsman Service who will take matters further.
I have recentlybecome aware that Action Conveyancing have closed. They carried out my conveyancing in Belvedere for a purchase of a leasehold flat 10 months ago. How can I be sure that the property is not still registered in the name of the former proprietor?
The easiest way to see if the property is registered to you, you can carry out a search of the land registry (£3.00). You can either do this yourself or ask a law firm to do this for you. If you are not registered you can seek help from one of a number of Belvedere conveyancing specialists.
I'm purchasing my first flat in Belvedere benefiting from help to buy. The builders would not budge the amount so I negotiated 6k of fixtures and fittings instead. The property agent suggested that I not to tell my lawyer about the extras as it may put at risk my mortgage with Godiva Mortgages Ltd. Do I keep my lawyer in the dark?.
All lenders require a Disclosure of Incentives Form from the builder of any new build, converted or renovated property, It is available online from the Lenders’ Handbook page on the CML website. CML form is completed and handed to the lender's surveyor when the inspection is done.
Lenders have different policies on incentives. Some accept none at all, cash or physical, while others will accept cash incentives up to 5%.
Hard to understand why the representative of a builder would be suggesting you withold information from a solicitor when all this will be clearly visible on forms the builder has to supply to its solicitor, the buyer's solicitor and the surveyor.