My husband and I are looking to purchase a house in Darley Abbey and have appointed a Darley Abbey conveyancing firm. Within the past 48 hours our conveyancer has forwarded the sale agreement to be signed with a detailed report in anticipation of exchanging contracts shortly. The Royal Bank of Scotland have this evening contacted us to inform me that they have now hit a problem as our Darley Abbey conveyancer is not on their approved list of lawyers. Is this a problem?
Where you are buying a property needing a mortgage it is normal for the purchasers' solicitors to also act for the purchaser's lender. In order to act for a bank or building society a law firm has to be on that lender's conveyancing panel. An application has to be made by the law firm to the lender to become a member of the lender's panel and there are increasingly strict criteria which the firm has to satisfy and indeed some lenders now require their panel members to be part of the Law Society’s Conveyancing Quality Scheme. Your property lawyer should contact your bank and see 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 the bank's conveyancing panel as you are at liberty to use your preferred Darley Abbey lawyers, in which case it will likely add costs, and it will likely delay the transaction as you are adding another lawyer into the mix.
I happen to be the only beneficiary of my late mum's estate with all property in now in my sole name, including the my former home in Darley Abbey. Conveyancing formalities meant that the Land Registry date was in January. I plan to dispose of the house. I do know about the CML six month 'rule', which means that my proprietorship could be considered the same way as though I had purchased the property in January. Is the property unsalable for six months?
The Council of Mortgage Lenders’ handbook requires conveyancers to: "report to us immediately if the owner or registered proprietor has been registered for less than six months." Technically you might be caught by that. How sensible a view banks take of it, depend on the lender as this clause primarily exists to identify the purchase and immediately sell or the quick reselling of property.
It is not clear whether my mortgage offer obliges me to make sure the lease term for the flat is extended prior to the completion date. I have called my Darley Abbey bank branch on various occasions and was advised it wasn't an issue and they would lend. My Darley Abbey conveyancing solicitor - who is on the mortgage company conveyancing panel- telephoned and was told they refuse to lend in accordance with their published requirements. I simply don't know who is right.
Your solicitor has to follow the CML Handbook Part 2 requirements for your bank. Unless your lawyer obtains specific confirmation in writing that the mortgage company will go ahead, your lawyer has no choice but to refrain from exchanging contract and committing you to the purchase. We would suggest that you ask the bank to contact your lawyer in writing confirming that they will accept the number of years remaining.
Our sealed bid on a semi in Darley Abbey has been agreed to, but there is a chain. The vendors have put an offer on on an apartment, but it’s not yet tied up, and have viewings of other flats booked. I have selected a high street conveyancing solicitor in Darley Abbey. What do I do now? When should I get the mortgage application with Barclays started?
It is normal to have anxieties where there is a chain as you are unlikely to want to be too out of pocket prematurely (mortgage application is approx £1k, then survey, Darley Abbey conveyancing search fees, etc). The first course of action is to check that your conveyancing practitioner is on the Barclays conveyancing panel. Regarding the next stages this very much depends on the uniqueness of your transaction, motivation for this property and on the state of the market. During a buoyant market many home buyers will apply for a home loan with Barclays and arrange for the valuation and only if it was satisfactory would they request their property lawyer to move forward with the conveyancing in Darley Abbey.
My relative recommended that where I am buying in Darley Abbey I should ask my conveyancer to perform a Neighbourhood, Planning and Local Amenity Search. What does it cover?
This is a search is occasionally quoted for as part of the standard Darley Abbey conveyancing searches. It is not a small report of more than thirty pages, listing and setting out important information about Darley Abbey around the property and the people living there. It incorporates an Aerial Photograph, Planning Applications, Land Use, Mobile Phone Masts, Rights of Way, the Darley Abbey Housing Market, Council Tax Banding, the demographics of People living in the area, the dominant type of Housing, the Average Property Price, Crime details, Local Education with plans and statistics, Local Amenities and other useful data concerning Darley Abbey.
Despite weeks of looking the Title Certificate and documents to our property can not be found. The lawyers who did the conveyancing in Darley Abbey 10 years ago are no longer around. Will I be able to sell the house?
As long as you have a registered title the information relating to your proprietorship will be documented by HMLR with a Title Number. It is easy to execute a search at the Land Registry, find your house and order up to date copies of the Registered Entries for less than a fiver. Where the title is Leasehold then the Land Registry will in most cases retain a file duplicate of the Registered Lease and again, a copy can be obtained for a small fee.
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We're novice buyers - agreed a price, but the agent has warned us that the owners will only go ahead if we instruct the agent's recommended solicitors as they are insisting on a ‘quick sale’. We would rather use a high street conveyancer with experience of conveyancing in Darley Abbey
It is highly unlikely the sellers are behind this. Should the owner desire ‘a quick sale', taking such a hostile approach to a motivated purchaser is not the way to achieve this. Avoid the agents and go straight to the sellers and make the point that (a)you are keen to buy (b)you are ready to go, with finances in place © you are unencumbered (d) you wish to move quickly (e)but you intend to use your preferred Darley Abbey conveyancing lawyers - not the ones that will give the negotiator at the agency a commission or achieve conveyancing targets demanded by senior management.