The Kegworth conveyancing firm that I recently instructed on my purchase in Kegworth have without warning shut down. I only went with them because I needed a firm on the Skipton conveyancing panel and my family Kegworth lawyer was not. I cut them a cheque for two hundred pounds in advance. What are my options?
If you have an estate agent involved then inform them immediately so that they can let the sellers know that there may be a slight delay due to reasons beyond your control. 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 Skipton 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.
A friend advised me that if I am buying in Kegworth I should ask my conveyancer to execute a Neighbourhood, Planning and Local Amenity Search. What does it cover?
A search of this type is sometimes included in the estimate for your Kegworth conveyancing searches. It is not a small report of more than thirty pages, listing and detailing significant information about Kegworth around the property and the people living there. It includes an Aerial Photograph, Planning Applications, Land Use, Mobile Phone Masts, Rights of Way, the local Housing Market, Council Tax Banding, the type of People living in the area, the dominant type of Housing, the Average House Prices, Crime details, Kegworth Education with maps and statistics, Local Amenities and other useful data concerning Kegworth.
I used Action Conveyancing several years past for my conveyancing in Kegworth. I now require my file however the law firm is no longer operating. What do I do?
You should contact the Solicitors Regulatory Authority (SRA) to assist in tracing 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 Kegworth of the conveyancing firm of solicitors you previously hired, the name of conveyancing solicitor with whom you had dealings, and the date on which you last had dealings with the firm.
Due to the encouragement of my in-laws I had a survey completed on a house in Kegworth ahead of instructing conveyancers. I have been told that there is a flying freehold overhang to the house. The surveyor advised that some mortgage companies tend not grant a loan on such a property.
It depends who your proposed lender is. HSBC has different requirements for example to Halifax. Should you wish to call us we can check with the appropriate bank. If you lender is happy to lend one our lawyers can help as they are used to dealing with flying freeholds in Kegworth. Conveyancing can be more complicated and therefore you should check with your conveyancing solicitor in Kegworth to see if the conveyancing costs will increase in light of this.
My husband and I are a couple of weeks into a freehold purchase having been referred to solicitors by the high street agent to execute conveyancing in Kegworth. I am not happy. Could you you assist me in finding new conveyancers?
They 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 conveyancer and have the loan are re-sent. The conveyancer needs to be on the banks panel to avoid escalating expenses and delays. So that should be your first question of the new lawyers. Our search tool can assist you in finding a bank approved solicitor for your home move in Kegworth
Is it true that a Kegworth conveyancing solicitor has court proceedings brought against them by clients for not carrying out comprehensive conveyancing investigations?
Our attention has not be brought to such a Kegworth conveyancing matter but it has been reported that, clients purchasing a home elsewhere in England successfully won a claim against their conveyancer as a consequence of development permission to construct a wind farm failing to be picked up in conveyancing searches.
If you are purchasing in Kegworth It is important that your conveyancing practitioner conduct all Kegworth conveyancing searches necessary to ensure you have accurate and up to date information ahead of acquiring a property.