Are the Sneyd Park conveyancing solicitors identified as being on the Nationwide conveyancing panel, together with their details provided by Nationwide?
Sneyd Park conveyancing firms themselves provide us confirmation that they are on the Nationwide conveyancing panel as opposed to being supplied with a list from Nationwide directly.
The Sneyd Park conveyancing solicitors that I recently instructed on my house acquisition in Sneyd Park have without warning shut down. I only went with them because I needed a firm on the Co-operative conveyancing panel and my family Sneyd Park lawyer was not. I gave my credit card details for them to take one hundred and fifty pounds for searches. What should be my next steps?
If you have an estate agent involved then inform them straight away so that they advise the vendors that there may be a slight delay due to reasons beyond your control. Most sellers would be sympathetic and urge their lawyer to send a new set of papers to your new solicitors. You should appoint new lawyers that are on the Co-operative conveyancing panel and notify the lender. If you have paid over any money, it will hopefully be held by the SRA as money in an intervened firm's bank accounts is transferred to the SRA. Then, the SRA or the intervention agent looks at the intervened firm's accounts to work out who the money belongs to. To claim your money you will need to contact the SRA. If the SRA cannot return money you are owed from the firm's bank accounts, or if they can only return part of the money, you can apply to the Compensation Fund for a grant. Your new solicitors should be in a position to assist.
How can we know in advance if a Sneyd Park conveyancing solicitor on the Co-operative panel is any good?
When it comes to conveyancing in Sneyd Park getting recommendations is a good starting point. Before you go ahead, check if they offer a no sale no fee offer. Also, you often get what you pay for - a firm which quotes more, will often provide a better service than one which is cheap as chips. We would always suggest that you speak with the solicitor handling your conveyancing.
I recently had an offer agreed on an apartment in Sneyd Park. My financial adviser pressured me to appoint their lawyer. I paid an upfront payment of £150. A few days later, the solicitor called me sheepishly admitting that they were not on the Principality 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 Principality 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.
My offer was accepted on a property in Sneyd Park on 31/12/2025, valuation was booked 3 days later, all came back fine. Solicitor retained, so all that was missing was my mortgage offer. Having made daily calls to Virgin Money and chasing them on my offer, I have now been told that my offer will not be issued unless the lawyer is on the Virgin Money conveyancing panel. Can the lender hold off the offer?
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 Virgin Money to deal with your lawyer's application to be on the Virgin Money conveyancing panel. There's no guarantee that your solicitor will be accepted.
I have been told that property searches are the main cause of hinderance in Sneyd Park conveyancing transactions. Is there any truth in this?
The Council of Property Search Organisations (CoPSO) published conclusions of a review by MoveWithUs that conveyancing searches do not figure amongst the common causes of hindrances during the legal transfer of property. Searches are not likely to feature in any delay in conveyancing in Sneyd Park.
It has been three months following my purchase conveyancing in Sneyd Park took place. I have checked the Land Registry website which shows that I paid £150,000 when infact I paid £170,000. Why the discrepancy?
The price paid figure is taken from the application to register the purchase. It is the figure included in the Transfer (the legal deed which transfers the property from one person to the other) and referred to as the 'consideration' or purchase price. You can report an error in the price paid figure using the LR online form. In most cases errors result from typos so at first glance the figure. Do report it so they can double check and advise.
Are there any apps to assist me to locate a Sneyd Park law firm on the Coventry Building Society conveyancing panel? I am a keen cyclist and am prepared to travel upto 10miles to meet the solicitor.
Feel free to make use of the tool on this page. Please pick a mortgage company and your location and you will see a number of Sneyd Park conveyancing lawyers located nearest you. We have listed some Sneyd Park conveyancing firms towards the end of this page and you can contact them to check if they are on the Coventry Building Society member panel