Finally the sale completed on my house in Shotley Bridge last November but our buyer keeps texting every few hours to say their lawyer needs to hear from mine. What are the post completion sale legalities following completion?
Following your disposal your solicitor should deliver the transfer documentation and all supplemental paperwork to the purchaser's conveyancer. Depending on the transaction, your lawyer must also evidence that the home loan has been repaid to the purchasers conveyancers. There is unlikely to be post completion tasks unique to conveyancing in Shotley Bridge.
Will my conveyancing lawyers need to check that the building insurance when buying a house in Shotley Bridge. My lender is Nationwide Building Society
Nationwide Building Society have specific requirements as set out in the UK Finance Lenders’ Handbook. As of 21/5/2026, the requirements read as follows :
I'm purchasing a new build house in Shotley Bridge benefiting from help to buy. The sellers refused to reduce the price so I negotiated 6k of fixtures and fittings instead. The property agent told me not disclose to my conveyancer about the extras as it may adversely affect my loan with Bank of Ireland. Do I keep my lawyer in the dark?.
All lenders require a Disclosure of Incentives Form from the builder of any new build, converted or renovated property, It is available online from the Lenders’ Handbook page on the CML website. CML form is completed and handed to the lender's surveyor when the inspection is done.
Lenders have different policies on incentives. Some accept none at all, cash or physical, while others will accept cash incentives up to 5%.
Hard to understand why the representative of a builder would be suggesting you withold information from a solicitor when all this will be clearly visible on forms the builder has to supply to its solicitor, the buyer's solicitor and the surveyor.
Due to the encouragement of my in-laws I had a survey completed on a property in Shotley Bridge prior to retaining solicitors. I have been advised that there is a flying freehold overhang to the house. The surveyor advised that some mortgage companies tend not grant a loan on a flying freehold premises.
It depends who your proposed lender is. Santander has different instructions from Nationwide. Should you wish to call us we can check with the appropriate mortgage company. If you lender is happy to lend one our lawyers can help as they are accustomed to dealing with flying freeholds in Shotley Bridge. Conveyancing will be smoother if you use a solicitor in Shotley Bridge especially if they regularly deal with such properties in Shotley Bridge.
Is it best to instruct a Shotley Bridge conveyancing practitioner based in the location that I am purchasing? I have an old university friend who can carry out the conveyancing but his firm is located 300miles drive away.
The benefit of a high street Shotley Bridge conveyancing firm is that you can attend the office to execute documents, hand in your identification documents and pester them where appropriate. Having local Shotley Bridge know how is a bonus. However nothing is more important than finding someone that will pull out all the stops for you. If if people you trust instructed your friend and in the main were happy that should outweigh using an unknown Shotley Bridge conveyancing solicitor solely due to them being local.
I have checked your search tool I can't find the lawyer I was hoping to instruct as being on the lender conveyancing panel. My lawyer has said that they are on the bank 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 mortgage company 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 lender solicitor panel.