My best friend’s dad is a conveyancing practitioner. I hope that I'll be able to get preferential fee for conveyancing, However if that does not come materialise, what kind of figure should I be paying for conveyancing in Dolwyddelan?
You should compare pricing. Make use of our comparison tool on this site. You will notice that amounts will be different but service levels do differ between conveyancers as is true with the vast majority of professional services.
We are about to complete buying a property in Dolwyddelan but as a consequence of damage from the recent storms I have managed to agree compensation from the owner in the sum of six thousand pounds in the form of a deduction in the price. I had intended this to be dealt with as part of a side agreement yet Yorkshire BS are not allowing this. Why were they involved?
The lawyer being on a Yorkshire BS conveyancing panel is required to advise Yorkshire BS of any changes to the sale price. If you were to refuse your property lawyer to report the price change to Yorkshire BS then they would have to discontinue acting for you. In addition, Yorkshire BS and you would have to appoint a new solicitor for your conveyancing in Dolwyddelan.
Will my conveyancing lawyers need to check that the building insurance when buying a house in Dolwyddelan. My lender is Platform
Platform have specific requirements as set out in the UK Finance Lenders’ Handbook. As of 22/4/2025, the requirements read as follows :
A friend informed me that in purchasing a property in Dolwyddelan there could be various restrictions as to what one can do in terms of external alterations to a property. Is this right?
There are a number of properties in Dolwyddelan which have some sort of restriction or requirement of consent to external variations. Part of the conveyancing in Dolwyddelan should determine what restrictions are applicable and advising you as part of a ROT that should be sent to you.
Is it the case that all Dolwyddelan solicitors on the Principality conveyancing panel are governed by the SRA?
As a firm of solicitors, in order to be on the Principality conveyancing panel they would need to be overseen by the SRA. Some lenders do allow licenced conveyancers on their panel in which case such practice would be overseen by the CLC.
Planning on purchasing a house in Dolwyddelan. I have received an online quote from a licenced conveyancer, which states: "There will be no charge for dealing with the Building Society if you are obtaining a mortgage". I take this to mean that there will be no additional fee if the solicitor is on the Co-operative conveyancing panel. I wanted to make sure it means there will be no additional fees for dealing with the mortgage.
They are simply saying that the cost for acting for the lender is included in the fee being quoted. It is worth you checking that the Dolwyddelan property lawyer is on the Co-operative conveyancing panel.
My wife and I have a semi-detached Edwardian property in Dolwyddelan. Conveyancing solicitor represented me and Norwich and Peterborough Building Society. I happened to do a free search for it on the Land Registry database and I saw two entries: the first freehold, another for leasehold with the exact same property. Is it worth asking Norwich and Peterborough Building Society to clarify?
You need to review the Freehold register you have again and check the Charges Register as there may be mention of a lease. The best way to be sure that you are also the registered proprietor of the leasehold and freehold title as well is to check (£3). It is not completely unheard of in Dolwyddelan and other areas of the country and poses no real issues for owners other than when they buy they have to account for both freehold and leasehold interests when dealing with lenders. You can also enquire as to the situation with the conveyancing solicitor who conducted the purchase.
I am buying a new build house in Dolwyddelan with a loan from Bank of Scotland. The builders refused to budge the amount so I negotiated £7000 of extras instead. The house builders rep told me not disclose to my conveyancer about this extras as it could put at risk my loan with the lender. Is this normal?.
All lenders require a Disclosure of Incentives Form from the developer 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.