Just been in touch with my conveyancing solicitor in Great Harwood who completed the legal work two years ago requesting a conveyancing costs illustration based on an identical type of house sale & purchase (a leasehold property and a freehold property) of similar values with a mortgage from Nottingham Building Society. I am now being quoted twice the amount. Should I look for a cheaper internet property lawyer?
The estimate fees appear a tad high. If you shop around you could reduce the fees slightly by perhaps a hundred pounds. That being said, providing that you were pleased with the assistance the firm offered you couldlive to rue opting for an an unknown conveyancer. Don't forget to enquire the firm can act for Nottingham Building Society. Do employ our search tool to choose a Great Harwood conveyancing firm on the Nottingham Building Society approved list of lawyers, which can often include conveyancing solicitors in Great Harwood.
Finally the sale completed on my house in Great Harwood last September yet the purchaser is texting every few hours to say her lawyer needs to hear from mysolicitor. What should my lawyer have done now that I have sold?
Following your disposal your solicitor is committed to send the transfer documentation and all supplemental paperwork to the purchaser's lawyers. If applicable, your lawyer should also evidence that the mortgage has been discharged to the buyers solicitors. There is unlikely to be post completion requirements unique to conveyancing in Great Harwood.
Can you clarify what the consequences are if my solicitor is expelled from the Lloyds Conveyancing panel ahead of completing my conveyancing in Great Harwood?
The first thing to point out is that, this is a very rare occurrence. In most cases even where a law firm is removed off of a panel the lender would allow the completion to go ahead as the lender would appreciate the difficulties that they would place you in if you have to instruct a new solicitor days before completion. In a worst case scenario where the lender insists that you instruct a new firm then it is possible for a very good lawyer to expedite the conveyancing albeit that you may pay a significant premium for this. The analogous situation is where a buyer instructs a lawyer, exchanges contracts and the law firm is shut down by a regulator such as the SRA. Again, in this situation you can find lawyers who can troubleshoot their way to bring the conveyancing to a satisfactory conclusion - albeit at a cost.
I am assisting my sister sell her house in Great Harwood. Does the conveyancer arrange the EPC or it is for the owner to coordinate?
After the abolition of Home Information Packs, energy performance certificates remained a required element of moving property. An energy assessment must be to hand in advance of the property being placed on the market. It is not something that lawyers normally organise. If you are using a Great Harwood conveyancing practitioner they might be willing to arrange energy performance certificates given their relationships with reputable local accredited person
Having read lots of house buying guides, I note that they all recommend that you should get your house surveyed prior to buying it. When I asked my local Great Harwood solicitor - who is on the Aldermore conveyancing panel - on this she said they don't do this and I need to contract an independent surveyor. Is that normal?
Aldermore will need an independent valuation of the property. Your lawyer will not arrange this. Usually Aldermore will appoint their own surveyor to do this, and you will have to pay for it. Remember that this is a valuation for mortgage purposes and not a survey. You may wish to consider appointing your own Great Harwood surveyor to carry out a survey or prepare a home buyers report on the property. It is up to you to satisfy yourself that the property is structurally sound before you buy it. If the survey or report reveals that building work is needed, you should tell your solicitor. You may wish to renegotiate with the seller.
At last I have had an offer on an apartment in Great Harwood accepted, but there is a chain. The sellers have put an offer on a flat, but it’s not yet agreed to, and are looking at other apartments in the pipeline. I have chosen a local conveyancing solicitor in Great Harwood. What should be my next step? At what point do I apply for the mortgage with Virgin Money?
It is usual to have anxieties where there is a chain as you are unlikely to want to incur expenses too early (mortgage application is approx £1k, then survey, Great Harwood conveyancing search charges, etc). The first thing to do is check that your conveyancing practitioner is on the Virgin Money approved list. Concerning the next phase this very much dictated by the circumstances of your transaction, desire for this property and on the state of the market. In a buoyant market many buyers will apply for the mortgage with Virgin Money and pay for the valuation and only if it comes back ok would they pay their solicitor to proceed with the conveyancing in Great Harwood.
I'm remortgaging my current home to a buy to let mortgage with Clydesdale and I will use the ballance of the raised equity towards a second property. The neighborhood we are looking at is Great Harwood. Will your lawyers be able to act for both sets of mortgage companies and link together the two deals?
Do use our search tool on this site to be sure that the lawyers are approved by both banks. Having checked that they are the lawyer should be able to simultaneously deal with the two deals but you should talk with you solicitor and specify your expectations and requirements.
Partway through the sale of a leasehold flat in Great Harwood. Conveyancing solicitors are doing their job but we are being charged a fortune from the managing agents. So far we have paid £250 for a leasehold management information and then a further £134.40 for supplemental queries raised by the purchaser's property lawyer.
Your solicitor will unlikely have any impact over the level of the bill for this information but the typical fee for the information for Great Harwood leasehold property is £350. For Great Harwood conveyancing transactions it is usual for the owner to pay for these costs. The landlord or their agents are under no legal obligation to answer these questions most will be content to do so - albeit often at high prices disproportionate to the work involved. Regretfully there is no statute that requires set fees for administrative tasks. Neither is there any legal time frame by which they are duty bound to provide answers.