I require conveyancing for an apartment in a relatively new development (five years built) in Stamford. Almost all the appartments are already occupied. Do I need carry out the neighbourhood searches as part of conveyancing in Stamford?
If you are purchasing a property with the assistance of a mortgage, your bank will require some (many) of the searches so you'll have no choice. If not, then Stamford conveyancing searches are for you to decide upon. Your lawyer, will ’encourage’, perhaps in the strongest possible terms, that you should not go ahead without searches, but he or she has a professional duty to do this. One thing to bear in mind; if you are likely to sell the house one day, it may be of interest to your future buyer what the searches contain. Sometimes houses with no practical issues can still throw up adverse search results. But if you demand that your lawyer to proceed without searches then your lawyer will have to follow your instructions or ask you to appoint a different lawyer for your conveyancing in Stamford.
Can your site be used to find a Conveyancing solicitor in Stamford even if I’m not buying or disposing of a house, for instance where I want to buy a shop in Stamford with a loan from Accord Mortgages Ltd?
Our comparison service is primarily there to locate residential conveyancing solicitors in Stamford but we have listed towards the end of this page some Stamford commercial conveyancing firms. You will need to speak with the solicitors directly to establish if they can also act for Accord Mortgages Ltd
The Stamford conveyancing solicitors that just started acting on my purchase in Stamford have suddenly shut down. I only went with them because I had to have a solicitor on the Leeds Building Society conveyancing panel and my family Stamford 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?
Assuming that you have an Estate Agent in the equation then let them know straight away so that they can let the sellers know that there may be a slight delay due to the problems encountered. Most sellers would be sympathetic and urge their lawyer to send a new set of papers to your new solicitors. You will need to appoint new lawyers that are on the Leeds Building Society 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 may be able to assist.
My relative recommended that where I am purchasing in Stamford I should carry out a Neighbourhood, Planning and Local Amenity Search. What does it cover?
This is a search is sometimes quoted for as part of the standard Stamford conveyancing searches. It is not a small report of about 40 pages, listing and detailing important information about Stamford around the property and the people living there. It includes an Aerial Photograph, Planning Applications, Land Use, Mobile Phone Masts, Rights of Way, the Stamford Housing Market, Council Tax Banding, the demographics of People living in the area, the dominant type of Housing, the Average Property Price, Crime statistics, Local Education with maps and statistics, Local Amenities and other useful information about Stamford.
I have been sourcing a conveyancing solicitor in Stamford for my house move. Can I see a solicitor's record with the legal regulator?
One can search for presented Solicitor Regulator Association (SRA) decisions stemming from investigations started on or after 1 January 2008. Visit Check a solicitor's record. To find records about the period before 1 January 2008, or to check a firm's record, phone 0870 606 2555, 08.00 - 18.00 any week day save for Tuesday when lines open at 9.30am. For non-uk callers, call +44 (0)121 329 6800. The SRA sometimes monitor telephone calls for training reasons.
A conveyancing company dealt with my conveyancing in Stamford 5 years ago having archived my deeds but has since been shut down – What can I do to retreive them?
Deeds, as such, are no longer appropriate for the majority of properties in Stamford are archived electronically at Land Registry. If you need to show evidence of proprietorship or are disposing of or re-mortgaging your property lawyer should obtain up to date copies of the register from the Land Registry in any case.
If you feel there may be other documents or you have any other queries please e-mail your request with details of the transaction and documents you need to filerequest@clc-uk.org. The CLC will let you know what information they have and any additional information they may need before they are in a position to identify and send the documents to you. Following an intervention it may take some time for the CLC to access archived files and documents, but your request will be actioned with reasonable haste.