Is there a search tool that I can utilise to investigate if the solicitor carrying out my conveyancing in Handsworth is on the mortgage lender’sconveyancing panel? I am looking to avoid the situation of having one lawyer for me and one for The Mortgage Works thus paying £192.00 in another set of legal invoice.
You should take advantage of the search tool on this site. Pick the lender and type ‘Handsworth’ or your location and you will discover numerous conveyancers offices in Handsworth or near you.
I have a terraced Victorian house in Handsworth. Conveyancing lawyer represented me and Skipton Building Society. I did a free Land Registry search last week and I saw a couple of entries: one for freehold, another for leasehold with the exact same address. If a house is not a freehold shouldn't I have been informed?
You should review the Freehold register you have again and check the Charges Register for 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 Handsworth 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 buyers. You can also question the position with your conveyancing lawyer who completed the work.
About to purchase a new build flat in Handsworth. Conveyancing is daunting at the best of times but I have never purchased a new build flat before. What sort of enquires would be asked in new build conveyancing.
Set out below is a sample of a few leasehold new build enquiries that you should expect your new-build leasehold conveyancing in Handsworth
-
Please supply evidence that the form of Lease proposed has been approved by the Land Registry. If there are lifts in the building, please confirm that the owners of flats on the ground and basement floors will not be required to contribute towards the cost of maintenance and renewal. Where service of notices and proceedings can be at the property demised please confirm that this can be amended to include simultaneous services at the Lessees’ solicitors’ offices where the Lessee from time to time is not resident in the UK - such solicitors may be varied by notice in writing to the Landlord from time to time but otherwise will be as previously specified. There must be mutual enforceability of lessee’s covenants. The Lease must contain a provision on behalf of the Vendor to pay the service charges in respect of unoccupied units in order to ensure that all services can be provided.
My husband and I are one month into a leasehold purchase having been recommend to conveyancers by the selling agent to execute conveyancing in Handsworth. We are not happy. Can you you assist me in finding new conveyancers?
A lawyer would have to be really bad in order to consider diss instructing them. Has the loan offer been issued? In the event that it has you need to make them aware of the new contact details and ensure the mortgage documents are issued to the new lawyers. The conveyancer should be on the mortgage company panel to avoid supplemental charges and delays. That should be your first question of the new conveyancers. Our search tool should help you find a bank approved conveyancer for your conveyancing in Handsworth
I have just appointed agents to market my basement apartment in Handsworth. Conveyancing has not commenced, but I have just received a quarterly service charge invoice – what should I do?
The sensible thing to do is pay the invoice as you normally would because all ground rent and service invoices should be apportioned on completion, so you will be reimbursed by the purchaser for the period running from after the completion date to the subsequent invoice date. Most management companies will not acknowledge the buyer unless the service charges have been paid and are up to date, so it is important for both buyer and seller for the seller to show that they are up to date. Having a clear account will assist your cause and will leave you no worse off financially.
Handsworth Leasehold Conveyancing - A selection of Questions you should consider before Purchasing
-
The prefered form of lease arrangement is where the freehold title is owned by the leaseholders. In this arrangement the tenants have being in charge if their destiny and even though a managing agent is often retained where it is bigger than a house conversion, the managing agent is directed by the tenants. Are any of leasehold owners in dispute over their service charge liability?
Is it possible for you to refer me to a conveyancing practitioner for purchasing a house? Ideally someone in the Handsworth area, who will contact me via email - not someone who insists on slow mail or fax.
LenderPanel.com is limited to being a directory service for lawyers who wish to be listed as being on the approved conveyancing panel for Clydesdale in certain locations for instance Handsworth . Our intention is not to recommend any particular conveyancer.