My wife and I are planning to purchase a house in Great Yarmouth and are in fact using a Great Yarmouth conveyancing firm. Within the last couple of days our lawyer has sent a preliminary report and documents to look through with a view to exchanging next week. Leeds Building Society have this morning contacted us to advise us that they have now hit a problem as our Great Yarmouth conveyancer is not on their conveyancing panel. Please explain?
Where you are buying a property requiring a mortgage it is standard 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 Accreditation Scheme. Your solicitor should contact your lender and see if they can apply for membership of their conveyancing panel, but if that is not viable they will instruct their own lawyers to represent them. You don't have to instruct a firm on the lender’s conveyancing panel as you are at liberty to use your preferred Great Yarmouth lawyers, in which case it will likely add costs, and it may delay matters as you have another set of people involved.
Please could you suggest a TSB accepted Great Yarmouth conveyancing solicitor who can have us moved in within under 3 weeks? Would it be better to use a local Great Yarmouth practice or a web based comparison site?
We can recommend some very good Great Yarmouth conveyancing firms. You can also walk up the main road in Great Yarmouth. Visit a couple of firms and ask to speak with a conveyancing solicitor for a costs illustration. Discuss your requirements together with your reasons and ask for a commitment on your deadline. Appoint the one that genuine.
We note that you have a search directory identifying law firms on the Coventry BS conveyancing panel. Do companies pay you a commission if I retain them for our own conveyancing in Great Yarmouth?
We are a listing service only for law firms wishing to communicate if they are on the Coventry BS conveyancing panel or other lender panels. We do not charge referral fees to any conveyancer that you subsequently appoint for your conveyancing in Great Yarmouth.
I am purchasing a flat and require a conveyancing solicitor in Great Yarmouth who is on the TSB solicitor. Can you recommend a local firm?
Our service is limited to being a directory service for firms who wish to listed as being on the approved conveyancing panel for TSB in certain locations such as Great Yarmouth. We dont recommend any particular firm.
I used Wolstenholmes a few years ago for my conveyancing in Great Yarmouth. Now, I need my documents but the law firm has closed. What do I do?
Do call the Solicitors Regulatory Authority (SRA) to help locate your conveyancing files. They can be contacted on please contact on 0870 606 2555. Alternatively, you should use their online form to make an enquiry. You will need to provide the SRA with as much information as possible to assist their search, including the name and address in Great Yarmouth of the conveyancing firm of solicitors you previously instructed, the name of conveyancing solicitor with whom you had dealings, and the date on which you last had dealings with the firm.
My father-in-law has recommend that I appoint his conveyancing solicitors in Great Yarmouth. Should I use them?
No doubt the best way to choose a conveyancing practitioner is to get guidance from friends or family who have previously instructed the conveyancer that you are are thinking of instructing.