We were about to instruct a conveyancing solicitor in Lewisham found on your site but stumbled across some other quotes on the internet appear less expensive – how come?
You can find many firms of firms promoting so-called cut-price conveyancing, but additionalfees result in the completion fee totally different to the one you expected. In accordance with regulatory requirements costs contained in terms of business should be transparent and reasonable invoiced The solicitors that we put forward for conveyancing in Lewisham set out all costs for the property you intend tobuy.
Finally the sale completed on my house in Lewisham last July yet the purchaser is SMS messaging me to moan that his lawyer is waiting to hear from mysolicitor. What are the post completion sale formalities now that I have sold?
Following your disposal your solicitor should send the transfer deeds and all of the paperwork to the purchaser's lawyers. Depending on the transaction, your conveyancer must also confirm that the legal charge in favour of the lender has been discharged to the buyers lawyers. There is unlikely to be post completion tasks specific conveyancing in Lewisham.
A relative advised me that if I am purchasing in Lewisham I should carry out a Neighbourhood, Planning and Local Amenity Search. Can you explain what the purpose of this search is?
A search of this type is occasionally quoted for as part of the standard Lewisham conveyancing searches. It is not a small report of about 40 pages, listing and setting out significant information about Lewisham around the property and the people living there. It includes an Aerial Photograph, Planning Applications, Land Use, Mobile Phone Masts, Rights of Way, the Lewisham Housing Market, Council Tax Banding, the type of People living in the area, the dominant type of Housing, the Average House Prices, Crime details, Local Education with plans and statistics, Local Amenities and other useful information regarding Lewisham.
I'm buying a new build house in Lewisham with a loan from Bank of Scotland. The builders would not move on the amount so I negotiated 6k of additionals instead. The house builders rep advised me not to tell my lawyer about this extras as it would put at risk my mortgage with Bank of Scotland. Is this normal?.
All lenders require a Disclosure of Incentives Form from the builder of any new build, converted or renovated property, It is available online from the Lenders’ Handbook page on the CML website. CML form is completed and handed to the lender's surveyor when the inspection is done.
Lenders have different policies on incentives. Some accept none at all, cash or physical, while others will accept cash incentives up to 5%.
Hard to understand why the representative of a builder would be suggesting you withold information from a solicitor when all this will be clearly visible on forms the builder has to supply to its solicitor, the buyer's solicitor and the surveyor.
My husband and I are novice buyers - agreed a price, but the agent advised that the seller will only go ahead if we appoint the agent's chosen lawyers as they need a ‘quick sale’. My instinct tells me that we should use a high street solicitor accustomed to conveyancing in Lewisham
We suspect that the seller is not behind this ultimatum. Should the seller require ‘a quick sale', alienating a genuine buyer is counter productive. Avoid the agents and go straight to the sellers and explain that (a)you are keen to buy (b)you are ready to go, with finances in place © you have nothing to sell (d) you intend to proceed fast (e)however you are going to instruct your own,trusted Lewisham conveyancing solicitors - rather thanthose that will provide their estate agent a introducer fee or meet his conveyancing targets pre-set by HQ.
I am on look out for some leasehold conveyancing in Lewisham. Before I get started I would like to find out the remaining lease term.
Assuming the lease is registered - and almost all are in Lewisham - then the leasehold title will always include the short particulars of the lease, namely the date; the term; and the original parties. From a conveyancing perspective such details then enable any prospective buyer and lender to confirm that any lease they are looking at is the one relevant to that title. For any other purpose, such as confirming how long the term was granted for and calculating what is left, then the register should be sufficient on it's own.
After months of dialogue we simply can't agree with our landlord on how much the lease extension should cost for our flat in Lewisham. Can we issue an application to the Residential Property Tribunal Service?
Most definitely. We can put you in touch with a Lewisham conveyancing firm who can help.
An example of a Lease Extension decision for a Lewisham residence is 73 Walerand Road in August 2012. the result of the findings of the Tribunal led to a premium to be paid for the extended lease in respect of Flat 73 in the sum of £10,040. The premium applicable in respect of Flat 85 was £5,710. This case was in relation to 2 flats. The unexpired residue of the current lease was 72 years.