We are looking to buy a house and need a conveyancing solicitor in Huddersfield who is on the Nationwide solicitor panel. Can you recommend a local conveyancing firm?
Our service is limited to being a directory service for firms who wish to be listed as being on the approved conveyancing panel for Nationwide . We don't recommend any particular firms conducting conveyancing in Huddersfield.
The Huddersfield conveyancing firm that just started acting on my house acquisition in Huddersfield have without warning closed. I only went with them because I had to have a lawyer on the RBS conveyancing panel and my previous Huddersfield lawyer was not. I paid them 275 plus VAT in advance. What do I do now?
Assuming that you have an Estate Agent in the equation then let them know immediately so that they advise the vendors that there may be a slight delay due to the problems encountered. Most sellers would be sympathetic and urge their lawyer to send a new set of papers to your new solicitors. You will need to appoint new lawyers that are on the RBS conveyancing panel and notify the lender. If you have paid over any money, it will hopefully be held by the SRA as money in an intervened firm's bank accounts is transferred to the SRA. Then, the SRA or the intervention agent looks at the intervened firm's accounts to work out who the money belongs to. To claim your money you will need to contact the SRA. If the SRA cannot return money you are owed from the firm's bank accounts, or if they can only return part of the money, you can apply to the Compensation Fund for a grant. Your new lawyers should be in a position to help.
My uncle advised me that in purchasing a property in Huddersfield there may be a number of restrictions prohibiting external alterations to a property. Is this right?
We are aware of a number of properties in Huddersfield which have some sort of restriction or requirement of consent to perform external alterations. Part of the conveyancing in Huddersfield should determine what restrictions are applicable and advising you as part of a ROT that should be sent to you.
Last month we had a mortgage agreed in principle with Principality. Huddersfield conveyancing practitioners are appointed. What is the average time that one could expect to receive a mortgage offer from Principality?
Some lenders take longer than others. Have Principality conducted the valuation? Have you advised Principality as to your lawyers' details and checked that your lawyers are on the Principality conveyancing panel? Sometimes it can take as long as six weeks for a mortgage offer to be issued.
My wife and I are in the process of viewing houses in Huddersfield and I am about to put in an offer. Should I already have a conveyancer appointed at this stage? I am planning to take a mortgage with Yorkshire BS.
It would be sensible to instigate your search sooner rather than later. Once you decide who you want to use and once your offer is accepted you can instruct them to work for you and forward their details on to the selling agent. Given that you are obtaining a mortgage with Yorkshire BS, ask your prospective lawyers if they are on the Yorkshire BS conveyancing panel otherwise they can't do the mortgage legal work.
Are there restrictive covenants that are commonly identified as part of conveyancing in Huddersfield?
Restrictive covenants can be picked up when reviewing land registry title as part of the legal transfer of property in Huddersfield. An 1874 stipulation that was seen was ‘The houses to be erected on the estate are each to be of a uniform elevation in accordance with the drawings to be prepared or approved by the vendor’s surveyor…’
Given that I will soon part with £400,000 on a property in Huddersfield I would like to talk to a solicitor regarding thehouse move in advance of giving the go ahead to the firm. Can this be arranged?
Absolutely - it is our preference to talk to you we do not take any clients on without you liaising with the conveyancer due to be conducting your property ownership legalities in Huddersfield.There is no ‘factory style conveyancing’ - each client is unique individual, not a matter number. The practices that we put you in touch with believe that the figure you are provided with for your conveyancing in Huddersfield should be the figure that you are charged.
The solicitors handling our conveyancing in Huddersfield has sent papers to review that reveal that the property is unregistered with epitome documents. Why is the property not currently recorded at the Land Registry?
It is a rare occurrence indeed to find premises in Huddersfield not to be registered. An 'epitome' is basically a dossier of photocopies of documents affecting an unregistered title. Plenty of Huddersfield conveyancing practitioners should be able to handle such matters but where uncertainty exists the standard guidance presently is for the current owners to register it first and then sell - this will have a knock on effect to cause a protracted transaction.