I am getting a mortgage offer from Santander. My intention is to instruct a Licensed Conveyancer in South East London. Does the Santander Solicitor panel allow for conveyancers regulated by the CLC?
The Santander approved solicitor list is, like many other lenders, represented by the Council or Mortgage Lenders or Building Society Association, open to Licensed Conveyancers regulated by the CLC.
My son-in-law is purchasing a newly built flat in South East London with a mortgage from Santander. His solicitor has said that there is a delay in receiving the ‘Disclosure of Incentive Form’. What is this document - I have never come across this before?
The document is intended to provide information to the main parties involved in the transaction. Therefore, it will be provided to your son’s lawyer who should be on the Santander conveyancing panel as a standard part of the process, and to the surveyor when requested. The developer will be required to start the process by downloading the form and completing it. The form will therefore need to be available for the valuer at the time of his or her site visit. The form should be sent to the Santander conveyancing panel solicitor as early as possible, in order to avoid any last minute delays, and no later than at exchange of contracts.
Can I use your services to locate a Conveyancing solicitor in South East London even if I’m not purchasing or selling a house, for example if I intend to buy an office in South East London with a mortgage from Clydesdale?
The service is primarily used to locate residential conveyancing solicitors in South East London but we have listed towards the end of this page some South East London commercial conveyancing firms. You will need to speak with the solicitors directly to check if they are also authorised to represent Clydesdale
We are buying a apartment in South East London. I might seem paranoid but how we can trust a lawyer? On the day of competition we will need to send money into their account. What protection do we have from them run away with our monies?
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.
My father informed me that in purchasing a property in South East London there may be various restrictions prohibiting external changes to the property. Is this right?
We are aware of anumerous of properties in South East London which have some sort of restriction or requirement of consent to perform external alterations. Part of the conveyancing in South East London should determine what restrictions are applicable and advising you as part of a ROT that should be sent to you.
We had appointed conveyancers with offices in South East London on the UBS solicitor approved list. They are now charging me a further sum for the legal aspects of the UBS mortgage. Is this an additional conveyancing fee set by UBS?
Provided it is contained in their Terms of Engagement or estimate then yes your solicitor is entitled to charge a fee for this. The charge is not dictated by UBS but by your South East London solicitor. Some firms on the UBS panel will levy an ‘acting for lender’ fee but many practices incorporate it on their overall fee.
I used Stirling Law several years past for my conveyancing in South East London. I now require my papers however the law firm is no longer operating. What do I do?
You should call the Solicitors Regulatory Authority (SRA) to help locate 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 South East London of the conveyancing firm of solicitors you previously hired, the name of conveyancing solicitor with whom you had dealings, and the date on which you last had dealings with the firm.
We're FTB’s - agreed a price, but the selling agent has warned us that the owners will only go ahead if we use the agent's recommended lawyers as they are insisting on an ‘expedited deal’. We would rather use a high street conveyancer who is familiar with conveyancing in South East London
We suspect that the owner is unaware of this requirement. If they require ‘a quick sale', alienating a serious purchaser is likely to cause more damage than good. Try to communicate with the vendors directly and make the point that (a)you are keen to buy (b)you are ready to go, with finances arranged © you have nothing to sell (d) you wish to move quickly (e)however you will continue to appoint your own,trusted South East London conveyancing solicitors - not the ones that will earn their negotiator at the agency a referral fee or hit his conveyancing targets pre-set by HQ.