Our conveyancer has uncovered a defect with the lease for the property we are buying in Capel Curig. The other side have put forward defective title insurance as a workaround. We are content with insurance and will cover the costs. Our conveyancer has advised that he must be satisfied that the lender is content with this solution. Who is the client here, us or the bank?
Notwithstanding that you have a mortgage offer from the bank does not mean to say that the property will meet their provisions for the purposes of a mortgage. Your lawyer has to ensure that the lease has to comply with the UK Finance Lenders’ Handbook specifications. You and the lender are the client. These conveyancing instructions have to be complied with.
We are purchasing a property and the solicitor has mentioned Chancel Repair for which the property could be liable given it’s proximity to the area of such a church. He has suggested insurance. Is this really appropriate for conveyancing in Capel Curig
Unless a prior purchase of the property took place after 12 October 2013 you could assume that solicitors conducting conveyancing in Capel Curig to continue to propose a a chancel search and or chancel repair liability insurance.
Just acquired a detached house in Capel Curig , What is the estimated time for the Land Registry to deal with the formalities evidencing the transfer to my name? My Capel Curig conveyancing solicitor has been painfully slow, so I want to check that my purchase is recorded.
There is nothing unique about conveyancing in Capel Curig registration formalities. As opposed to being determined by geographic area, timescales can vary depending on who lodges the application, whether it is in order and if the Land registry need to notify any 3rd parties. At present roughly 80% of such applications are fully addressed within 12 days but occasionally there can be protracted hold-ups. Registration is effected once the purchaser is living at the premises therefore registration formalities is not typically an essential issue but where it is urgent that the the registration takes place urgently then you or your conveyancer could communicate with the Registry to express the reasoning for the application to be prioritised.
I am downsizing from my home. My former solicitors closed down. I would be grateful for any recommendation of a conveyancing firm. Im based in Capel Curig if that affects matters.
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As co-executor for the estate of my father I am selling a house in Cardiff but reside in Capel Curig. My lawyer (approximately 250 miles from meneeds me to sign a stat dec prior to the transaction finalising. Can you recommend a conveyancing practitioner in Capel Curig who can witness this legal document for me?
strictly speaking you are unlikely to need to have the documents witnessed by a conveyancing solicitor. Ordinarily any notary public or qualified solicitor will do regardless of whether they are Capel Curig based
We today found out that one of the partners of the solicitors undertaking the purchase conveyancing in Capel Curig is is the father of the owners that we are buying from. Is this acceptable?
On the basis that there is no conflict of interest this is allowable. Where you are needing a home loan then the lender may have a say as many lenders have specific requirements concerning this. For example for Leeds Building Society as of 12/6/2025, the requirements read as follows :
• a different person deals with the conveyance (i.e. not the borrower or a member of the borrower's immediate family);
• there is no conflict of interest and none arises during the transaction; and
• the Law Society guidelines are followed.