I have given 8 weeks notice to my current landlord and have to be out of my let out property in New Brighton by the end of next month. Conveyancing on my purchase is progressing. How realistic is it to complete in three weeks as I wish to avoid having to find short term accommodation?
The normal practice is not to serve notice on a rental until exchange of contracts has taken place. If you have not previously done so, contact to your solicitor and request that they apply pressure on the other side, try to an acceptable time-line that everyone will work to achieve
Can your site be used to find a Conveyancing solicitor in New Brighton even if I’m not purchasing or selling a house, for instance if I intend to acquire an office in New Brighton with a mortgage from Barclays ?
The service is mainly there to help choose residential conveyancing solicitors in New Brighton but we have recorded at the end of this page some New Brighton commercial conveyancing firms. You will need to speak with the company directly to see if they are also authorised to represent Barclays
Is there a list of Nationwide panel solicitors in New Brighton on the UK Finance Lenders’ Handbook Website?
Unfortunately not yet. There is no such facility on the Council of Mortgage Lenders or Building Society Association sites. A small selection of mortgage companies make their panel listings open the public on the web. If you are seeking to appoint a New Brighton conveyancing practitioner on the Nationwide please make the most of our tool.
I recently had an offer accepted on an apartment in New Brighton. My financial adviser suggested a lawyer. I paid an on account payment of £225. Soon after, the solicitor contacted me embarrassingly acknowledging that they were not on the Co-operative 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 Co-operative 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 had an offer accepted on a house in New Brighton on 25/9/2025, valuation was booked 2 days after, received a clean bill of health. Conveyancer retained, so all that was missing was my mortgage offer. Having made daily calls to Yorkshire BS and chasing them on my offer, I have now been told that my offer will not be issued unless the lawyer is on the Yorkshire BS conveyancing panel. Are Yorkshire BS entitled to hold back the Mortgage pending the lawyer being on the approved list?
Mortgage companies tend not to not issue an offer until they have details of a lawyer on their panel. It can take a few weeks for Yorkshire BS to deal with your lawyer's application to be on the Yorkshire BS conveyancing panel. There's no guarantee that your solicitor will be accepted.
A friend recommended that where I am buying in New Brighton I should carry out a Neighbourhood, Planning and Local Amenity Search. What does it cover?
A search of this type is occasionally quoted for as part of the standard New Brighton conveyancing searches. It is a large report of about 40 pages, listing and detailing important information about New Brighton 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 demographics of People living in the area, the dominant type of Housing, the Average Property Price, Crime statistics, Local Education with maps and statistics, Local Amenities and other useful data regarding New Brighton.
How does conveyancing in New Brighton differ for newly converted properties?
Most buyers of new build premises in New Brighton contact us having been asked by the housebuilder to sign contracts and commit to the purchase even before the house is ready to move into. This is because new home sellers in New Brighton tend to purchase the real estate, plan the estate and want to get the plots sold off as they are building the properties. Buyers, therefore, will have to exchange contracts without actually seeing the house they are buying. To reduce the chances of losing the property, buyers should instruct property lawyers as soon as the property is reserved and mortgage applications should be submitted quickly. Due to the fact that it could be several months and even years between exchange of contracts and completion, the mortgage offer may need to be extended. It would be wise to use a lawyer who specialises in new build conveyancing especially if they are used to new build conveyancing in New Brighton or who has acted in the same development.
My aunt purchased her house in New Brighton 9 years past. She has got married, widowed and has recently married again. She now wishes to dispose of the New Brighton property. I think she will just be requested to provide a copy of her marriage certificates to the property lawyer however she is worried it could hold up the sale of the house. Should she appoint a property lawyer to update the Land Registry details for the property?
It is not absolutely necessary to update the title for the property providing you have the proof needed to show how the change of name has come about.
Any purchaser’s property lawyer should review the title details and need evidence to establish the name change e.g. marriage documentation.