The conveyancer who assisted with my former purchase has quoted £1400 for no sale no fee conveyancing in Queen's Park. I’m looking to sell a modern house for £200,000. Is this expensive? Is it in excess of what I should be paying for conveyancing in Queen's Park?
The estimate does seem marginally overpriced. If you are content to expend time comparing quotes you may be able to reduce the fees slightly by say a hundred pounds. On the other hand, you mightlive to regret choosing an an unknown lawyer. Don't forget to check that the firm can act for your bank. You can make use of our comparison tool to get a quote a Queen's Park conveyancing practice on the lender’s approved list of lawyers which can often include conveyancing solicitors in Queen's Park.
Do I find a Licenced Conveyancer or Solicitor for conveyancing in Queen's Park?
There are many recorded licenced Conveyancers in Queen's Park and Solicitor partnerships in Queen's Park offering conveyancing It is important to make clear that the two are supervised by regulatory bodies with both specialising in the legal aspects of transferring property. They may both also conduct other property legal work such as remortgage conveyancing, enfranchisement and transfer of equity conveyancing.
I am helping my mother sell her property in Queen's Park. Will the conveyancing solicitor commission an EPC or it is for the owner to see to?
After the demise of Home Packs, energy performance certificates was kept a mandatory element of selling a property. An energy assessment must be commissioned before the property is put on the market. It is not a task that law firms normally organise. Where you are instructing a Queen's Park conveyancing solicitor they may help arrange EPC’s given their contacts with reputable local energy assessors
I have today made my last payment due on my mortgage with Santander. I assume I don't need a Queen's Park conveyancing practitioner on the Santander panel to discharge the mortgage at the Land Registry. Please confirm.
If you have finished paying off your Santander mortgage, they may send you evidence showing that you have paid it off. Alternatively they may notify the Land Registry directly. The Land Registry need to see this evidence before they will remove the Santander mortgage from the register. Santander, and any evidence they send you, will determine the action you need to take. In cases where no conveyancer is acting for you and you have paid off your mortgage:
- but are not moving to another property
- where Santander has sent the Land Registry the discharge electronically, and
- Santander has instructed the Land Registry to do so
My colleague recommended that where I am buying in Queen's Park I should ask my conveyancer to perform a Neighbourhood, Planning and Local Amenity Search. What does it cover?
This is a search is occasionally quoted for as part of the standard Queen's Park conveyancing searches. It is a large report of more than thirty pages, listing and detailing important information about Queen's Park 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 Property Price, Crime statistics, Queen's Park Education with maps and statistics, Local Amenities and other useful information concerning Queen's Park.
I used Stirling Law a few years ago for my conveyancing in Queen's Park. I now require my papers but 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 Queen's Park of the conveyancing firm of solicitors you previously instructed, the name of conveyancing solicitor with whom you had dealings, and the date on which you last had dealings with the firm.
Over the last few months I have been searching for a leasehold apartment up to £195,000 and found one close by in Queen's Park I like with amenity areas and station nearby, however it only has 61 years on the lease. I can't really find anything else in Queen's Park suitable, so just wondered if I would be making a grave error acquiring a lease with such few years left?
If you need a home loan that many years may be a potential deal breaker. Discount the offer by the expected lease extension will cost if it has not already been discounted. If the existing proprietor has owned the property for at least twenty four months you may ask them to start the process of the extension and then assign it to you. You can add 90 years to the current lease term and have £0 ground rent by law. You should consult your conveyancing solicitor about this matter.
Do I need to be concerned by 3rd parties that I am dealing with are encouraging me to use a factory type conveyancing firm as opposed to a High Street Queen's Park conveyancing firm?
As with many service providers, often suggestions from family and friends can be worth their weight in gold. Yet there are many people with a vested interest in a conveyancing matter; estate agents, mortgage brokers and banks might all suggest conveyancers to retain. Sometimes these solicitors might be known to one of the organisations as one of the best in their field, but sometimes there exists a financial incentive behind the recommendation. You have the right to appoint your own conveyancer. However, bear in mind that most lenders have an approved list of solicitors you have to use for the mortgage aspect of your house move.