Can your site be used to find a Conveyancing solicitor in Botley even if I’m not buying or selling a house, for instance where I want to buy a shop in Botley with a loan from Bank of Scotland?
Our search tool is primarily there to help choose residential conveyancing solicitors in Botley but we have set out at the end of this page a selection of Botley commercial conveyancing firms. You will need to speak with the company directly to see if they can also act for Bank of Scotland
The Botley conveyancing lawyers that just started acting on my house acquisition in Botley have suddenly closed. They were on acting for me because I needed a solicitor on the Barclays conveyancing panel and my previous Botley lawyer was not. I paid them 275 plus VAT in advance. What should be my next steps?
If you have an estate agent involved then let them know immediately so that they advise the vendors that there may be a slight delay due to the problems encountered. Hopefully they will be sympathetic and urge their lawyer to send a new set of papers to your new solicitors. You should appoint new lawyers that are on the Barclays conveyancing panel and notify the lender. If you have paid over any money, it will hopefully be held by the SRA as money in an intervened firm's bank accounts is transferred to the SRA. Then, the SRA or the intervention agent looks at the intervened firm's accounts to work out who the money belongs to. To claim your money you will need to contact the SRA. If the SRA cannot return money you are owed from the firm's bank accounts, or if they can only return part of the money, you can apply to the Compensation Fund for a grant. Your new solicitors should be in a position to assist.
I am helping my sister sell her property in Botley. Will the solicitor order the EPC or should I organise this?
After the abolition of Home Information Packs, EPC’s was left as a required part of moving property. An EPC should be to hand in advance of the property being marketed. It is not a task that solicitors normally organise. Where you are instructing a Botley conveyancing lawyer they may help arrange energy performance certificates due to their contacts with reputable Botley assessors
Is it the case that all Botley conveyancing solicitors on the Nottingham conveyancing panel are governed by the Solicitors Regulatory Authority?
As solicitors, in order to be on the Nottingham conveyancing panel they would need to be regulated by the Solicitors Regulatory Authority. Many lenders do allow licenced conveyancers on their panel and in such a situation the firms would be regulated by the Council of Licensed Conveyancers.
My offer was accepted on a house in Botley on 16/8/2024, valuation was booked 3 days after, received a clean bill of health. Solicitor appointed, so all that was missing was my mortgage offer. Having made daily calls to Nottingham and chasing them on my offer, I have now been told that my offer will not be issued unless the lawyer is on the Nottingham conveyancing panel. Are Nottingham entitled to hold back the Mortgage pending the lawyer being on the approved list?
Mortgage companies tend not to not issue a mortgage until they have details of a lawyer on their panel. It can take a few weeks for Nottingham to deal with your lawyer's application to be on the Nottingham conveyancing panel. There's no guarantee that your solicitor will be accepted.
I'm converting the mortgage on my existing property to a buy to let loan with Bank of Ireland and I will use the ballance of the raised equity as a deposit on another house. The area we are talking about is Botley. Will your solicitors be able to act for the two lenders and tie in the transactions?
Do use our search tool on this site to check that the conveyancers are on the relevant lender panels. On the basis that they are your conveyancer should be able to simultaneously deal with the two deals but you should talk with you solicitor and make apparent your expectations and requirements.
We are 3 weeks into a leasehold purchase having been directed to solicitors by the estate agent to handle our conveyancing in Botley. I am not happy. Could you you assist me in finding new solicitors?
A lawyer would have to be really bad to suggest replacing them. Has your mortgage been issued? If so you will need to advise them of the new solicitor and get the mortgage documents are issued to the new lawyers. Your conveyancer should be on the mortgage company panel to avoid added fees and frustration. So that should be your first question of the new solicitors. The search tool can assist you in finding a lender approved solicitor for your home move in Botley
The property lawyers conducting our conveyancing in Botley has forwarded papers to review that reveal that the land is unregistered with epitome documents. Is it not the case that all properties in Botley should be registered?
It is rare for property in Botley not to be registered. An 'epitome' is basically a dossier of photocopies of documents affecting an unregistered title. Plenty of Botley conveyancing lawyers should be familiar with this type of conveyancing but where uncertainty prevails the prevailing proposition these days is for the seller’s conveyancer to address the registration formalities first and subsequently sell - this undoubtedly result in a protracted conveyancing.