I have just been advised by my mortgage adviser that my Linton property lawyer is not on the mortgage company Solicitor panel. How can I be certain that this is indeed the case?
The best course of action for you to take is to call your Linton lawyer directly. You lawyer should inform you what has happened. If they are not on the panel they may recommend you to a Linton conveyancing firm that is on the conveyancing panel for your bank.
Do the Building Society Association intend to launch a searchable register to list practices on the Darlington Building Society conveyancing panel for example in Linton?
Lexsure has not been advised of any plans on the part of the BSA to promote such a search facility.
A relative recommended that if I am purchasing in Linton I should ask my conveyancer to carry out a Neighbourhood, Planning and Local Amenity Search. What does it cover?
This is a search is usually included in the estimate for your Linton conveyancing searches. It is not a small document of about 40 pages, listing and detailing important information about Linton around the property and the people living there. It incorporates an Aerial Photograph, Planning Applications, Land Use, Mobile Phone Masts, Rights of Way, the local Housing Market, Council Tax Banding, the demographics of People living in the area, the dominant type of Housing, the Average Property Price, Crime statistics, Linton Education with maps and statistics, Local Amenities and other useful data about Linton.
It has been 3 months following my purchase conveyancing in Linton completed. I have checked the Land Registry website which shows that I paid £175,000 when infact I paid £215,000. Why the discrepancy?
The price paid figure is taken from the application to register the purchase. It is the figure included in the Transfer (the legal deed which transfers the asset from one person to the other) and referred to as the 'consideration' or purchase price. You can report an error in the price paid figure using the LR online form. In most cases errors result from typos so at first glance the figure. Do report it so they can double check and advise.
In my capacity as executor for the estate of my grandmother I am disposing of a property in Newport but live in Linton. My solicitor (based 200 kilometers awayhas requested that I execute a stat dec before the transaction finalising. Can you recommend a conveyancing practitioner in Linton to witness this legal document for me?
Technically speaking you should not need to have the documents attested by a conveyancing solicitor. Ordinarily any notary public or qualified solicitor will suffice regardless of whether they are Linton based
What can I do to find out who owns a property in Linton?
As long as the property is recorded at HM Land Registry, and you have sufficient specifics of the location of the property, you should be able to view details from the the Land Registry of the recorded owner for a for less than a fiver.