Completed the sale of my flat in Wokingham last February yet the purchaser is Skype messaging me complaining that his solicitor is waiting to hear from mine. What should have happened following completion?
Post completion of your house sale your conveyancer should send the transfer documentation and all additional paperwork to the purchaser's solicitors. Where appropriate, your conveyancer must also evidence that the legal charge in favour of the lender has been paid off to the purchasers solicitors. There is unlikely to be post completion procedures specific conveyancing in Wokingham.
I am assisting my mother sell her property in Wokingham. Will the solicitor arrange an energy performance certificate or it is for the owner to see to?
Following the abolition of HIPs, EPC’s was maintained a required element of selling a house. An energy performance certificate must be commissioned in advance of the property being advertised. It is not something that solicitors ordinarily organise. Where you are instructing a Wokingham conveyancing lawyer they may help arrange EPC’s given their relationships with reputable Wokingham energy assessors
We have agreed to purchase a house in Wokingham. An unusual aspect is that the roof has a solar panel. Yorkshire BS have issued a mortgage offer so presumably this is not a concern to them. Why is my solicitor raising questions about the panel?
As your lender is Yorkshire BS your lawyer must check the formal requirements outlined in Part 2 of UK Finance Lenders’ Handbook for Yorkshire BS. The CML Handbook contains minimum requirements for solar panel roof-space leases, and property lawyers are required to report to Yorkshire BS where a lease does not satisfy these specifications. The specifications relate to the installation of panels on properties nationwide and is not limited to Wokingham.
My offer was accepted on an apartment in Wokingham on 26/8/2025, valuation was booked 2 days later, received a clean bill of health. Conveyancer instructed, 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. Are Virgin Money entitled to hold back the Mortgage pending the lawyer being on the approved list?
A lender would not issue a mortgage 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.
A relative suggested that if I am buying in Wokingham I should carry out a Neighbourhood, Planning and Local Amenity Search. What does it cover?
A search of this type is occasionally included in the estimate for your Wokingham conveyancing searches. It is a large document of more than thirty pages, listing and setting out significant information about Wokingham around the property and the people living there. It includes an Aerial Photograph, Planning Applications, Land Use, Mobile Phone Masts, Rights of Way, the local Housing Market, Council Tax Banding, the demographics of People living in the area, the dominant type of Housing, the Average House Prices, Crime statistics, Local Education with plans and statistics, Local Amenities and other useful data about Wokingham.
I used Stirling Law several years past for my conveyancing in Wokingham. Now, I need my files but the law firm has closed. What do I do?
You should contact 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 Wokingham of the conveyancing firm of solicitors you previously retained, the name of conveyancing solicitor with whom you had dealings, and the date on which you last had dealings with the firm.
I have been on the look out for a ground for flat up to £235,500 and found one close by in Wokingham I like with amenity areas and railway links in the vicinity, however it only has 49 remaining years left on the lease. I can't really find anything else in Wokingham in this price bracket, so just wondered if I would be making a grave error acquiring a lease with such few years left?
If you require a mortgage the shortness of the lease may be problematic. Reduce the offer by the expected lease extension will cost if it has not already been discounted. If the existing owner has owned the premises for at least 2 years you could request that they start the process of the extension and then assign it to you. You can add 90 years to the existing lease term with a zero ground rent applied. You should speak to your conveyancing solicitor concerning this matter.
How do I locate a Wokingham solicitor on the National Westminster Bank conveyancing panel? I have wheels and am willing to travel upto 25miles to meet the conveyancer.
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 Wokingham conveyancing lawyers based on proximity. We have listed some Wokingham conveyancing firms towards the end of this page and you can call them to check whether they are on the National Westminster Bank panel