I was referred a solicitor who has sent a quote for £995 for leasehold conveyancing in Goodwick. I am hoping to sell a Victorian house for £275,000. Is this expensive? Is it above what I should be paying for conveyancing in Goodwick?
The quote is fractionally on the expensive side. If you shop around you might trim some of the cost by say £100 plus VAT. On the other hand, you mightlive to regret choosing an a cheaper solicitor. If is important to be sure that the firm can also act for your bank. You can utilise our comparison tool to find a Goodwick conveyancing practice on the banks approved list of lawyers which can often include conveyancing solicitors in Goodwick.
Can I use your services to locate a Conveyancing solicitor in Goodwick even if I’m not buying or selling a house, for instance if I wish to acquire a shop in Goodwick with a mortgage from Yorkshire Building Society?
The service is mainly used to help choose residential conveyancing solicitors in Goodwick but we have recorded at the end of this page a selection of Goodwick commercial conveyancing firms. You should make contact with the firm directly to check if they are also authorised to represent Yorkshire Building Society
My Solicitor in Goodwick is not on the Skipton Building Society Conveyancing Panel. Is it possible for me to retain my prefered solicitor even though they are excluded from the Skipton Building Society panel?
The limited options available to you here include:
- Carry on with your preferred Goodwick solicitors but Skipton Building Society will need to retain a lawyer on their list of acceptable firms. This will result in additional total legal fees as well as result in delays.
- Choose a new solicitor to to deal with the purchase, obviously checking they are Skipton Building Society approved.
- Try to convince your Skipton Building Society based solicitor to try to join the Skipton Building Society panel
I'm the single recipient of my late mum's will and I have everything in my name now, including the my former home in Goodwick. The Goodwick property was put into my name in August. I want to move. I do know about the CML six month 'rule', which means that my property ownership could be treated the same way as if I'd bought the property in August. Will no one buy the property for half a year?
The CML handbook instructs conveyancers to: "report to us immediately if the owner or registered proprietor has been registered for less than six months." By the strict wording you may be caught by that. How sensible a view mortgage companies take of it, depend on the lender as this obligation chiefly exists to pick up on subsales or the wholesaling and assigning of properties.
When it comes to mortgage companies such as HSBC, do Goodwick conveyancers have to pay a yearly amount to be on the list of approved solicitors?
We are not aware of any lender fees to be on their list of approved firms, although some do levy an administration charge to deal with the processing of the conveyancing panel application.
I recently had an offer agreed on a house in Goodwick. My financial adviser pressured me to appoint their lawyer. I paid an upfront payment of £175. A few days later, the solicitor called me sheepishly admitting that they were not on the Santander conveyancing panel. Am I right in thinking that I should be due a refund?
You should be able to recover this from the law firm if they were not on the Santander panel. They should have asked at the outset which lender you were obtaining a mortgage with. An important lesson to readers of this site is to check that the lawyers are on the appropriate lender panel.
Despite weeks of looking the Title Certificate and documents to our property are lost. The solicitors who conducted the conveyancing in Goodwick 5 years ago no longer exist. What are my options?
Gone are the days when you need to have the physical original deeds to establish that you own the land or property, as the Land Registry have everything they need in a digital format.
I am looking for a leasehold apartment up to £245,000 and found one round the corner in Goodwick I like with open areas and railway links in the vicinity, however it's only got 51 remaining years left on the lease. I can't really find anything else in Goodwick suitable, so just wondered if I would be making a mistake buying a short lease?
Should you require a home loan the shortness of the lease may be problematic. Discount the offer by the amount the lease extension will cost if not already taken into account. If the current owner has owned the property for at least twenty four months you can ask them to start the process of the extension and pass it to you. An additional ninety years can be extended on to the existing lease and have £0 ground rent by law. You should consult your conveyancing solicitor regarding this.