Having been recommended your site we were about to use a conveyancing solicitor in Buxton endorsed by you but stumbled across some other fee calculations on the internet look less pricey – why is this?
There are numerous conveyancing organisations marketing at first sight what seems to be very low prices. Our advice is to think long and hard as to how much you respect your own move to want to take 'cheap' risks with regard to the quality of the legal work. Many of them list a cheap fee as a headline but bury extra charges in the small print..
It is a dozen years since I purchased my home in Buxton. Conveyancing lawyers have just been instructed on the sale but I can't find the title documents. Is this a problem?
You need not be too concerned. First there is a chance that the deeds will be retained by your mortgage company or they may be in the possession of the conveyancers who acted in the purchase. Secondly the chances are that the title will be recorded at the land registry and you will be able to prove you own the property by your conveyancing solicitors obtaining current official copies of the land registers. The vast majority of conveyancing in Buxton involves registered property but in the unlikely event that your home is unregistered it is more tricky but is resolvable.
My property lawyer in Buxton is not on the Norwich and Peterborough Building Society Solicitor Panel. Is it possible for me to retain my family solicitor even though they are excluded from the Norwich and Peterborough Building Society list of approved lawyers?
The limited options available to you here include:
- Complete the purchase with your existing Buxton solicitors but Norwich and Peterborough Building Society will need to instruct a lawyer on their panel. This will inevitably rack up the overall legal charges and cause delays.
- Choose an alternative solicitor to act in the conveyancing, remembering to check they are on the Norwich and Peterborough Building Society panel
It has been 2 months since my purchase conveyancing in Buxton completed. I have checked the Land Registry website which shows that I paid £150,000 when infact I paid £170,000. Why the discrepancy?
The price paid figure is taken from the application to register the purchase. It is the figure included in the Transfer (the legal deed which transfers the residence from one person to the other) and referred to as the 'consideration' or purchase price. You can report an error in the price paid figure using the LR online form. In most cases errors result from typos so at first glance the figure. Do report it so they can double check and advise.
I was pointed in your direction by a few estate agents in Buxton to locate a conveyancer using your seach tool. Is there a financial incentive for Estate Agents to offer your site over alternative conveyancing organisations?
We don’t give any financial incentive for directing people in our direction. We found it would be just too difficult to pay a commission because members of the public would think, ‘How come the agent getting a kickback? Why aren’t I getting any benefit too?’ We would prefer to grow our business on genuine recommendations.
As co-executor for the will of my uncle I am disposing of a house in Swansea but reside in Buxton. My lawyer (approximately 300 kilometers from meneeds me to sign a statutory declaration before completion. Could you suggest a conveyancing practitioner in Buxton to witness this legal document for me?
strictly speaking you should not be required to have the documents witnessed by a conveyancing solicitor. Ordinarily any notary public or qualified solicitor will be fine regardless of whether they are based in Buxton