Me and my partner are purchasing a house in Shard End. It might be a silly question but how we can trust a conveyancer? On completion day we have to send money into their account. What protection do we have from them run away with our deposit?
Be assured that all money in a Solicitors client account is 100% safe, and even if your Solicitor ran off with it, the Law Society would reimburse you fully.
Can you point me to a directory of Yorkshire BS panel solicitors in Shard End on the UK Finance Lenders’ Handbook Website?
No. There is no such facility on the Council of Mortgage Lenders or Building Society Association sites. Very few mortgage companies make their panel listings available online. Where you are in need of a Shard End property lawyer on the Yorkshire BS please use our tool.
My wife and I are in the process of looking at houses in Shard End and I am now considering a potential offer. Is it premature to have a solicitor in place? I intend to finance via a mortgage with Yorkshire BS.
You should start requesting conveyancing estimates from solicitors ASAP. After you have chosen your lawyer and once your offer is accepted you can instruct them to work for you and pass their contact information on to the estate agent. As you are taking out a mortgage with Yorkshire BS, make sure you remember to check that your lawyer is on the Yorkshire BS conveyancing panel.
I am buying a house and the lawyer has raised the issue of Chancel Repair for which the house could be liable given it’s proximity to the area of such a church. He has suggested insurance. Is this strictly warranted for conveyancing in Shard End
Unless a prior acquisition of the property completed post 12 October 2013 you can take it that conveyancing practitioners delivering conveyancing in Shard End to continue to propose a a chancel search and or insurance against a claim.
I have been on the look out for a flat up to £195,000 and found one near me in Shard End I like with amenity areas and transport links nearby, the downside is that it only has 51 remaining years left on the lease. I can't really find anything else in Shard End in this price bracket, so just wondered if I would be making a grave error buying a lease with such few years left?
Should you require a mortgage the shortness of the lease will be a potential deal breaker. Reduce the offer by the expected lease extension will cost if it has not already been discounted. If the current owner has owned the property for a minimum of 2 years you can ask them to start the process of the extension and pass it to you. You can add 90 years to the current lease with a zero ground rent applied. You should speak to your conveyancing lawyer concerning this.
I'm remortgaging my existing home to a BTL mortgage with Halifax and intend to use the remaining equity towards further house. The area we are talking about is Shard End. Will your conveyancers be able to act for both sets of lenders and link together the two deals?
Make use of our comparison tool on this site to be sure that the solicitors are approved by both banks. On the basis that they are the conveyancer should be able to connect the two deals but you should have a chat with you conveyancer and make apparent your desired outcome and requirements.
As co-executor for the will of my grandfather I am disposing of a property in Newport but live in Shard End. My conveyancer (who is 300 kilometers from meneeds me to sign a statutory declaration prior to the transaction finalising. Could you suggest a conveyancing lawyer in Shard End who can witness and place their company stamp on the document?
Technically speaking you are unlikely to need to have the documents attested by a conveyancing solicitor. Ordinarily or notary public or qualified solicitor will be fine regardless of whether they are based in Shard End
Having used your search tool I can't find the lawyer I was hoping to instruct as being on the bank conveyancing panel. My lawyer has said that they are on the lender approved panel. How can I be sure given that they are not listed on your directory?
Not all firms are yet listed on our lender panel search tool which is still relatively new. Law firms are listing on a daily basis and it is probably the case that your lawyer is on the lender conveyancing lawyer and you should probably take them at their word. Please do feel free to suggest that they completing their listing on our site as it would only cost them £1 a month to list themselves as being on the bank solicitor panel.