We are a couple about to sign contracts for a property in Fishponds. We encountered a stumbling block. The mortgage offer with National Westminster Bank runs out on 30/12/2024 but the vendors are suggesting a completion date of 2/1/2025. Can one prolong the mortgage offer?
The person best placed to deal with your issue is your conveyancer who is in a position to assess if they corresponding with the mortgage broker, owner’s conveyancers, selling agents or possibly all parties based on what has gone on in your conveyancing as of today.
My relative advised me that where I am purchasing in Fishponds I should ask my conveyancer to carry out a Neighbourhood, Planning and Local Amenity Search. What does it cover?
A search of this type is occasionally included in the estimate for your Fishponds conveyancing searches. It is not a small document of more than thirty pages, listing and setting out important information about Fishponds around the property and the people living there. It includes an Aerial Photograph, Planning Applications, Land Use, Mobile Phone Masts, Rights of Way, the Fishponds Housing Market, Council Tax Banding, the type of People living in the area, the dominant type of Housing, the Average House Prices, Crime details, Fishponds Education with plans and statistics, Local Amenities and other useful information about Fishponds.
The deeds to our house can not be found. The conveyancers who dealt with the conveyancing in Fishponds 4 years ago no longer exist. Will I be able to sell the house?
Assuming the title is registered the details of your proprietorship will be held by HMLR with a Title Number. It is easy to execute a search at the Land Registry, identify your house and get up to date copies of the property title for a small fee. Where the property is Leasehold then the Land Registry will also normally retain a file copy of the Registered Lease and again, a copy can be ordered for £20 inclusive of VAT.
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Back In 2009, I bought a leasehold flat in Fishponds. Conveyancing and Godiva Mortgages Ltd mortgage went though with no issue. A letter has just been received from someone saying they have taken over the reversionary interest in the property. It included a demand for arrears of ground rent dating back to 1998. The conveyancing practitioner in Fishponds who previously acted has long since retired. Any advice?
The first thing you should do is make enquiries of HMLR to be sure that the individual purporting to own the freehold is indeed the new freeholder. It is not necessary to instruct a Fishponds conveyancing lawyer to do this as you can do this on the Land Registry website for less than a fiver. You should note that regardless, even if this is the rightful landlord, under the Limitation Act 1980 no more than 6 years of rent can be collected.
Leasehold Conveyancing in Fishponds - A selection of Queries Prior to buying
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Please tell me if there are any major works in the near future that will add a premium to the maintenance costs? The prefered form of lease arrangement is if the freehold title is in the ownership of the leaseholders. In this situation the leaseholders enjoy control and notwithstanding that a managing agent is frequently employed where it is larger than a house conversion, the managing agent acts for the leaseholders themselves. Make sure you investigate if the the lease contains any unreasonable restrictions in the lease. By way of example it is very common in Fishponds leases that pets are not allowed in in a block in Fishponds. If you love the propertyin Fishponds but your cat is not allowed to make the move with you then you will be presented with a hard choice.
My boyfriend is purchasing a basement flat in Fishponds. He has received a fee estimate by the property lawyer suggested by the selling agents totaling £1156 . It was 7 years ago I sold and bought a house and it cost was £440. Have costs really gone up that much?
What does the conveyancing estimate include? Is it just for the legal fees, or what you will be paying in total (for example Fishponds searches, land registry fees, etc)