Completed the sale of my flat in Temple last December yet the purchaser is e-mailing every few hours to moan that their solicitor needs to hear from mine. What are the post completion sale legalities following completion?
Following your sale your conveyancer is duty bound to send the transfer deeds and all supplemental paperwork to the purchaser's conveyancer. Where appropriate, your conveyancer should also confirm that the home loan has been discharged to the buyers lawyers. There are no post completion requirements peculiar conveyancing in Temple.
We're in Temple, First timers buying with a mortgage (lender is Aldermore , and our lawyer is on the Aldermore conveyancing panel). How long should the conveyancing process take?
The fact that your lawyer is on the Aldermore conveyancing panel is a help. It would almost certainly delay matters if they were not. However, no conveyancer should guarantee a timeframe for your conveyancing, due to third parties outside of your control such as delays caused by lenders,conveyancing search providers or by the other side’s solicitors. The time taken is often determined by the number of parties in a chain.
This question may be naive but I am unseasoned as FTB of a ground floor flat in Temple. Do I receive the keys to the house on completion from my lawyer? If this is the case, I will use a local conveyancing solicitor in Temple?
There is no need to visit the lawyers office on the day of completion. Your solicitors will arrange to send the purchase money to the owner’s solicitors, and shortly after the monies have arrived, you should be able to pick up the keys from the selling Agents and move into your new home. This tends to happen early afternoon.
I can not work out if my lender requires a lease extension. I have called into my local Temple building society branch on various occasions and was told it does not affect the mortgage offer and they would lend. My Temple conveyancing solicitor - who is on the mortgage company conveyancing panel- called to say that they would not lend based on their specific requirements. Who do I believe?
Provided that the lawyer is on the lender approved list, they must adhere to the CML Handbook specifications for the lender. Unless your lawyer obtains specific confirmation in writing that the bank will go ahead, your lawyer has no choice but to refrain from exchanging contract and committing you to the purchase. We would suggest that you ask the mortgage company to contact your lawyer in writing confirming that they will accept the number of years remaining.
Intending to buy a maisonette in Temple. I have received an online quote from a licenced conveyancer, which states: "There will be no charge for dealing with the Lender if you are obtaining a mortgage". I take this to mean that there will be no additional fee if the solicitor is on the Skipton conveyancing panel. I wanted to make sure it means there will be no additional fees for dealing with the mortgage.
They are simply saying that the cost for acting for the lender is included in the fee being quoted. It is worth you checking that the Temple conveyancing practitioner is on the Skipton conveyancing panel.
I used Wolstenholmes several years ago for my conveyancing in Temple. I now require my papers however the law firm is no longer operating. What do I do?
Do 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 Temple of the conveyancing firm of solicitors you previously instructed, the name of conveyancing solicitor with whom you had dealings, and the date on which you last had dealings with the firm.
I've recently found out that there is a flying freehold element on a property I put an offer in last month in what should have been a simple, no chain conveyancing. Temple is where the house is located. Can you offer any advice?
Flying freeholds in Temple are not the norm but are more likely to exist in relation to terraced houses. Even where you use a solicitor outside Temple you must be sure that your lawyer goes through the deeds diligently. Your mortgage company may require your conveyancing solicitor to take out an indemnity policy. Some of the more diligent conveyancing solicitors in Temple may ascertain that this is not enough and that the deeds be re-written to give you the most up to date legal protection. If so, the next door neighbour also had to sign up to the revised deeds.It is possible that your lender will not accept the situation so the sooner you find out the better. You should also check with your insurance broker as to whether they will insure a flying freehold property.
I have just appointed agents to market my basement apartment in Temple. Conveyancing lawyers have not yet been instructed, but I have just received a quarterly service charge demand – should I leave it to the buyer to sort out?
The sensible thing to do is pay the maintenance contribution as you normally would given that all ground rent and maintenance charges will be allotted on completion, so you should recover the relevant percentage by the buyer for the period running from after the completion date to the subsequent invoice date. Most management companies will not acknowledge the buyer unless the service charges have been paid and are up to date, so it is important for both buyer and seller for the seller to show that they are up to date. This will smooth the conveyancing process.
I have tried to negotiate informally with with my landlord to extend my lease without success. Can the Leasehold Valuation Tribunal adjudicate on such issues? Can you recommend a Temple conveyancing firm to help?
in cases where there is a absentee landlord or if there is disagreement about what the lease extension should cost, under the relevant legislation it is possible to make an application to the LVT to determine the sum to be paid.
An example of a Lease Extension case for a Temple flat is Flat 89 Trinity Court Grays Inn Road in February 2013. the Tribunal found that the premium to be paid by the tenant on the grant of a new lease, in accordance with section 56 and Schedule 13 to the Leasehold Reform, Housing and Urban Development Act 1993 should be £36,229. This case affected 1 flat. The unexpired residue of the current lease was 66.8 years.
