Willusing a Alcester conveyancing solicitor make my purchase more efficient?
On the whole conveyancing solicitors in your area will have strong alliances with your local authority, which could help with your Alcester conveyancing searches that your conveyancer will need to carry out. It can only be a plus if they enjoy strong rapport with the Local Land Registry Office your area Alcester, other lawyers in the area and Alcester Estate Agents.
AssumingI were to buy a simple residential homein Alcester for cash and have no survey and no conveyancing searches how much should I expect to to save on my conveyancing in Alcester?
Any savings you would achieve would be isolated to the Alcester conveyancing searches. A conveyancer is required to do the vast majority of work - money laundering, liaising with your vendors property lawyer, SDLT return, register the title etc. You might save a bit for them not needing to register a charge but it won't be significant.
My aunt passed away 10 months ago and as sole heir and executor I was left the house in Alcester. The house had a small mortgage left on it of around £8000. I want to have the title changed into my name whilst I re-mortgage to Leeds Building Society, pay off the mortgage. Is this possible?
Given you intend to refinance then Leeds Building Society will require that you use a conveyancer on the Leeds Building Society conveyancing panel. Here is link to the Land Registry online guidance around what to do when a property owner dies. This will help you to understand the registration process behind changing the details re the registered title. in your case it would appear that you are effectively purchasing the property from the estate. Your Leeds Building Society conveyancing panel solicitor pays the new mortgage money into the estate, the estate pays off the old mortgage, the charge is released and you become the owner and the Leeds Building Society mortgage is registered as a charge at the Land Registry.
I need some quick conveyancing in Alcester as I am under pressure to exchange contracts in less than 2 weeks. Thankfully I do not need a mortgage. Can I decline from having conveyancing searches to save fees and time?
As you are are a cash buyer you have the choice not to have searches conducted although no conveyancer would recommend that you don't. Drawing on our experience of conveyancing in Alcester the following are examples of what can arise and therefore impact future mortgageability: Refused Planning Applications, Outstanding Charges, Outstanding Grants, Railway Schemes,...
I used Action Conveyancing a few years past for my conveyancing in Alcester. Now, I need the documents however the law firm has closed. What do I do?
Do call the Solicitors Regulatory Authority (SRA) to assist in tracking down 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 Alcester of the conveyancing firm of solicitors you previously used, the name of conveyancing solicitor with whom you had dealings, and the date on which you last had dealings with the firm.
Having had my offer accepted I require leasehold conveyancing in Alcester. Before diving in I would like to find out the remaining lease term.
If the lease is recorded at the land registry - and almost all are in Alcester - then the leasehold title will always include the short particulars of the lease, namely the date; the term; and the original parties. From a conveyancing perspective such details then enable any prospective buyer and lender to confirm that any lease they are looking at is the one relevant to that title. For any other purpose, such as confirming how long the term was granted for and calculating what is left, then the register should be sufficient on it's own.
I inherited a 1 bedroom flat in Alcester, conveyancing formalities finalised 3 years ago. Can you give me give me an indication of the likely cost of a lease extension? Comparable properties in Alcester with an extended lease are worth £195,000. The average or mid-range amount of ground rent is £45 charged once a year. The lease finishes on 21st October 2088
With just 63 years remaining on your lease the likely cost is going to be between £16,200 and £18,600 as well as plus your own and the landlord's "reasonable" professional fees.
The figure that we have given is a general guide to costs for renewing a lease, but we are not able to advice on the actual costs in the absence of detailed investigations. Do not use this information in tribunal or court proceedings. There are no doubt other concerns that need to be taken into account and clearly you should be as accurate as possible in your negotiations. Neither should you move forward based on this information before seeking the advice of a professional.