Would the conveyancing lawyers identified via your search tool carry out auction conveyancing in Melbourne?
We know of a few auction practitioners we can connect you with those conducting auction conveyancing. Melbourne is just one of our areas of in which our lawyers have offices.
My home in Melbourne is up for sale and I have a buyer. Does the conveyancing practitioner have to be required to be on the Nationwide conveyancing panel in order to deal with redeeming my mortgage?
Ordinarily, even if your lawyer is not on the Nationwide conveyancing panel they can still act for you on your sale. It might be that the lender will not release the original deeds (if applicable and increasingly irrelevant) until after the mortgage is paid off. You should speak to your lawyer directly before you start the process though to ensure that there is no problem as lenders are changing their panel criteria fairly frequently in recent years.
A colleague suggested that if I am buying in Melbourne 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 included in the estimate for your Melbourne conveyancing searches. It is not a small document of about 40 pages, listing and setting out significant information about Melbourne 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, Local Education with maps and statistics, Local Amenities and other useful information concerning Melbourne.
Are there any apps to help identify a Melbourne law firm on the Chelsea Building Society conveyancing panel? I have a car and am happy to travel upto 10kilometers to meet the lawyer.
Feel free to make use of the tool on this website. Please pick a bank and your location and you will see a number of Melbourne conveyancing lawyers locally. We have detailed some Melbourne conveyancing firms at the bottom of this page and you can ring them to see whether they are on the Chelsea Building Society member panel
In my capacity as executor for the estate of my grandfather I am selling a property in Monmouth but I am based in Melbourne. My solicitor (who is 200 miles from merequires that I sign a statutory declaration before completion. Could you suggest a conveyancing practitioner in Melbourne to attest and place their company stamp on the document?
Technically speaking you are unlikely to need to have the documents witnessed by a conveyancing solicitor. Normally any notary public or solicitor will suffice regardless of whether they are based in Melbourne
Having had my offer accepted I require leasehold conveyancing in Melbourne. Before I get started I require certainty as to the remaining lease term.
If the lease is registered - and 99.9% are in Melbourne - 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.
I acquired a split level flat in Melbourne, conveyancing formalities finalised half a dozen years ago. Can you let me have an estimated range of the fair premium for a lease extension? Similar flats in Melbourne with an extended lease are worth £186,000. The average or mid-range amount of ground rent is £55 invoiced every year. The lease comes to an end on 21st October 2077
With 52 years left to run we estimate the premium for your lease extension to range between £29,500 and £34,000 plus professional fees.
The suggested premium range above a general guide to costs for renewing a lease, but we cannot give you a more accurate figure without more detailed due diligence. Do not use the figures in a Notice of Claim or as an informal offer. There are no doubt other concerns that need to be taken into account and clearly you want to be as accurate as possible in your negotiations. Neither should you move forward placing reliance on this information without first getting professional advice.