My husband and I are looking to purchase a house in Maldon and are in fact using a Maldon conveyancing practice. Within the last couple of days our lawyer has forwarded the sale agreement to be signed with a detailed report with a view to exchanging next week. Alliance & Leicester have this afternoon contacted us to inform me that there is now an issue as our Maldon conveyancer is not on their approved list of lawyers. Is this a problem?
Where you are buying a property with the assistance of a mortgage it is normal for the purchasers' solicitors to also act for the mortgage company. In order to act for a bank or building society a law firm has to be on that lender's conveyancing panel. An application has to be made by the law firm to the lender to become a member of the lender's panel and there are increasingly strict criteria which the firm has to satisfy and indeed some lenders now require their panel members to be part of the Law Society’s Conveyancing Quality Scheme. Your property lawyer should contact your lender and see if they can apply for membership of their conveyancing panel, but if that is not viable they will instruct their own solicitors to act. You don't have to instruct a firm on the bank's conveyancing panel and you may continue to use your own Maldon solicitors, in which case it will likely add costs, and it may delay matters as you have another set of people involved.
Can I use your services to locate a Conveyancing solicitor in Maldon even if I’m not purchasing or disposing of a house, for instance if I want to buy a shop in Maldon with a mortgage from Coventry Building Society?
Our search tool is mainly there to help choose domestic conveyancing solicitors in Maldon but we have listed towards the bottom of this page a selection of Maldon commercial conveyancing firms. You should enquire with the solicitors directly to see if they are also authorised to represent Coventry Building Society
I used Action Conveyancing a few years ago for my conveyancing in Maldon. Now, I need my files however the law firm is no longer operating. What do I do?
Do contact the Solicitors Regulatory Authority (SRA) to assist in tracking down 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 Maldon 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.
I am buying a new build flat in Maldon. Conveyancing is necessary evil at the best of times but I have never purchased a new build flat before. What sort of enquires would be asked in new build legal work.
Here is a sample of a selection of leasehold new build questions that you may expect your new-build leasehold conveyancing in Maldon
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Will the freehold then be transferred for a nominal consideration (not exceeding £100) to the Management Company? Please supply a car parking plan. Where service of notices and proceedings can be at the property demised please confirm that this can be amended to include simultaneous services at the Lessees’ solicitors’ offices where the Lessee from time to time is not resident in the UK - such solicitors may be varied by notice in writing to the Landlord from time to time but otherwise will be as previously specified. Please confirm the Lease plans are architect prepared. Has the Lease plan been approved by the Land Registry and if not when will they be lodged for this purpose?
Is it best to appoint a Maldon conveyancing practitioner who is local to the property I am purchasing? I have an old university friend who can execute the conveyancing however her office is a couple of hundredkilometers drive away.
The benefit of a high street Maldon conveyancing practice is that you can pop in to execute documents, deliver your identification documents and pester them if necessary. Having local Maldon know how is a benefit. That being said it's more important to get someone that will pull out all the stops for you. If other friends have instructed your friend and in the main were content that must surpass using an unfamiliar Maldon conveyancing lawyer just because they are Maldon based.
Do online conveyancing companies do everything a local Maldon solicitor does or must I employ a solicitor for the final stages for my conveyancing in Maldon?
If you use an online conveyancer they will undertake all the work your Maldon solicitor would cover.