Finally the sale completed on my house in Kensal Rise last August but my buyer keeps telephoning every few hours to moan that her solicitor needs to hear from mine. What are the post completion sale formalities now that I have sold?
Post completion of your sale your lawyer is duty bound to send the transfer documentation and all additional paperwork to the purchaser's lawyers. Depending on the transaction, your lawyer should also confirm that the home loan has been paid off to the purchasers lawyers. There is unlikely to be post completion tasks just for conveyancing in Kensal Rise.
I have paid off my mortgage with Nottingham. I assume I don't need a Kensal Rise property lawyer on the Nottingham panel to remove the mortgage at the Land Registry. Am I right?
If you have finished paying off your Nottingham mortgage, they may send you evidence showing that you have paid it off. Alternatively they may notify the Land Registry directly. The Land Registry need to see this evidence before they will remove the Nottingham mortgage from the register. Nottingham, and any evidence they send you, will determine the action you need to take. In cases where no conveyancer is acting for you and you have paid off your mortgage:
- but are not moving to another property
- where Nottingham has sent the Land Registry the discharge electronically, and
- Nottingham has instructed the Land Registry to do so
After months of negotiation I have agreed a price on an apartment in Kensal Rise. My mortgage broker pressured me to appoint their conveyancing practitioner. I paid an on account payment of £150. Soon after, the solicitor called me embarrassingly acknowledging that they were not on the Principality conveyancing panel. Am I right in thinking that I should be due a refund?
You should be able to recover this from the law firm if they were not on the Principality panel. They should have asked at the outset which lender you were obtaining a mortgage with. An important lesson to readers of this site is to check that the lawyers are on the appropriate lender panel.
I was told four weeks ago that my mortgage has been agreed to by Coventry BS. Is it usual for Coventry BS to only issue the offer once my solicitor in Kensal Rise is approved on their conveyancing panel? Coventry BS have asked my solicitor to see a copy of their PI Insurance.
Mortgage companies tend not to not issue a mortgage until they have details of a lawyer on their panel. It can take a few weeks for Coventry BS to deal with your lawyer's application to be on the Coventry BS conveyancing panel. There's no guarantee that your solicitor will be accepted.
I require fast conveyancing in Kensal Rise as I am faced with a deadline to exchange contracts within 4 weeks. A home loan is not required. Can I escape the need for conveyancing searches to save money and time?
As you are are a mortgage free purchaser you are at liberty not to have searches conducted although no law firm would recommend that you don't. Drawing on our experience of conveyancing in Kensal Rise the following are instances of what can be revealed and therefore affect market value: Enforcement Notices, Outstanding Charges, Outstanding Grants, Unadopted Roads,...
I used Wolstenholmes a few years ago for my conveyancing in Kensal Rise. I now require my file but the law firm has closed. What do I do?
You should 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 Kensal Rise of the conveyancing firm of solicitors you previously retained, the name of conveyancing solicitor with whom you had dealings, and the date on which you last had dealings with the firm.
I am looking into buying my first house which is in Kensal Rise and I am already nervous. I couldn't find anything specific about Kensal Rise. Conveyancing will be needed in due course but do you know about the Kensal Rise area? or perhaps some other tips you can share?
Rather than looking online forget looking online you should go and have a look at Kensal Rise. In the meantime here are some basic statistics that we found
I have chosen a Kensal Rise conveyancing solicitor for our home move (FTB’s) and have picked up in the engagement letter that they are not regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority. Should I be concerned or is that standard with solicitor?
We can't see why they should be. Most property lawyer don't lend money. They should be regulated by the SRA, who set strict laws covering funds deposited on client account.