Completed the sale of my flat in Harrogate last January but the buyer keeps whats apping daily to say their conveyancer needs to hear from myconveyancer. What should my lawyer have done following completion?
Following your house sale your lawyer is committed to deliver the transfer deeds and all additional paperwork to the buyer’s solicitors. If applicable, your solicitor must also evidence that the legal charge in favour of the lender has been discharged to the purchasers solicitors. There is unlikely to be post completion tasks just for conveyancing in Harrogate.
I have been told that property searches are a common reason for obstruction in Harrogate house deals. Is this right?
The Council of Property Search Organisations (CoPSO) has noted the findings of research by MoveWithUs that conveyancing searches do not feature amongst the most frequent causes of hindrances in the conveyancing process. Local searches are not likely to be the root cause of delay in conveyancing in Harrogate.
Despite weeks of looking the Title Certificate and documents to my property are lost. The conveyancers who handled the conveyancing in Harrogate 4 years ago are no longer around. What are my next steps?
Assuming you have a registered title the details of your proprietorship will be evidenced by HMLR with a Title Number. It is easy to carry out a search at the Land Registry, find your house and secure up to date copies of the property title for less than a fiver. If the title is Leasehold then the Land Registry will usually hold a file copy of the Registered Lease and again, a copy can be obtained for twenty pounds.
I am looking for a leasehold apartment up to £195,000 and found one close by in Harrogate I like with a park and transport links nearby, the downside is that it only has 51 remaining years left on the lease. There is not much else in Harrogate suitable, so just wondered if I would be making a grave error acquiring a short lease?
If you require a home loan the shortness of the lease may be an issue. Reduce the offer by the anticipated lease extension will cost if not already taken into account. If the current owner has owned the premises for a minimum of 2 years you can ask them to start the process of the extension and then assign it to you. You can add 90 years to the current lease with a zero ground rent applied. You should speak to your conveyancing solicitor concerning this matter.
Taking into account that I will soon part with hundreds of thousands of pounds on a property in Harrogate I would like to have a conversation with the solicitor regarding theconveyancing prior to appointing the firm. Can this be arranged?
This is something that we encourage - we would be happy to talk to you we do not take any clients on without you speaking to the conveyancer due to be doing your property ownership legalities in Harrogate.There is no ‘factory style conveyancing’ - every client is unique individual, not a matter reference. The practices that we put you in touch with believe that the figure you are calculated and presented to you for residential conveyancing in Harrogate should be the amount on the final invoice that you end up paying.
I have recently realised that I have Seventy years left on my flat in Harrogate. I now wish to extend my lease but my freeholder is absent. What are my options?
If you qualify, under the Leasehold Reform, Housing and Urban Development Act 1993 you can submit an application to the County Court for an order to dispense with the service of the initial notice. This will enable the lease to be extended by the Court. However, you will be required to demonstrate that you or your lawyers have done all that could be expected to locate the lessor. In some cases an enquiry agent should be useful to carry out a search and to produce an expert document which can be used as evidence that the freeholder can not be located. It is wise to seek advice from a conveyancer in relation to investigating the landlord’s absence and the vesting order request to the County Court covering Harrogate.
I own a garden flat in Harrogate, conveyancing was carried out 9 years ago. Can you give me give me an indication of the likely cost of a lease extension? Equivalent flats in Harrogate with an extended lease are worth £255,000. The ground rent is £45 charged once a year. The lease expires on 21st October 2098
You have 73 years unexpired we estimate the price of your lease extension to range between £8,600 and £9,800 as well as costs.
The figure above a general guide to costs for renewing a lease, but we cannot give you the actual costs in the absence of comprehensive due diligence. Do not use this information in a Notice of Claim or as an informal offer. There are no doubt additional concerns that need to be taken into account and clearly you want to be as accurate as possible in your negotiations. Please do not take any other action based on this information without first getting professional advice.