Completed the sale of my flat in Barton Seagrave last September yet the purchaser is SMS messaging daily to say her solicitor is waiting to hear from mylawyer. What are the post completion sale formalities following completion?
Following your house sale your solicitor is committed to send the transfer deeds and all supplemental paperwork to the buyer’s lawyers. If applicable, your conveyancer must also send confirmation that the home loan has been discharged to the purchasers conveyancers. There are no post completion steps specific conveyancing in Barton Seagrave.
A relative advised me that if I am purchasing in Barton Seagrave I should ask my conveyancer to carry out a Neighbourhood, Planning and Local Amenity Search. Can you explain what the purpose of this search is?
A search of this type is occasionally quoted for as part of the standard Barton Seagrave conveyancing searches. It is a large report of about 40 pages, listing and detailing significant information about Barton Seagrave around the property and the people living there. It incorporates 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 Property Price, Crime details, Local Education with plans and statistics, Local Amenities and other useful information regarding Barton Seagrave.
I used Wolstenholmes several years ago for my conveyancing in Barton Seagrave. I now require my file but the law firm has closed. 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 Barton Seagrave 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.
Yesterday I discovered that there is a flying freehold element on a house I put an offer in a fortnight ago in what should have been a quick, no chain conveyancing. Barton Seagrave is the location of the property. Can you shed any light on this issue?
Flying freeholds in Barton Seagrave are rare but are more likely to exist in relation to terraced houses. Even where you use a solicitor outside Barton Seagrave you must be sure that your lawyer goes through the deeds thoroughly. Your lender may require your conveyancing solicitor to take out an indemnity policy. Some of the more diligent conveyancing solicitors in Barton Seagrave may decide 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.
What are your top tips when it comes to appointing a Barton Seagrave conveyancing practice to carry out our lease extension conveyancing?
If you are instructing a conveyancer for your lease extension (regardless if they are a Barton Seagrave conveyancing practice) it is imperative that he or she should be familiar with the legislation and specialises in this area of work. We recommend that you talk with two or three firms including non Barton Seagrave conveyancing practices before you instructing a firm. If the firm is ALEP accredited then so much the better. The following questions might be of use:
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What are the legal fees for lease extension work?
I bought a split level flat in Barton Seagrave, conveyancing was carried out in 2004. Can you work out an approximate cost of a lease extension? Equivalent properties in Barton Seagrave with over 90 years remaining are worth £211,000. The ground rent is £45 invoiced every year. The lease runs out on 21st October 2093
With 68 years left to run we estimate the price of your lease extension to range between £9,500 and £11,000 plus costs.
The figure that we have given is a general guide to costs for renewing a lease, but we are not able to supply a more accurate figure without more detailed due diligence. You should not use this information in a Notice of Claim or as an informal offer. There are no doubt additional issues that need to be considered and you obviously want to be as accurate as possible in your negotiations. Neither should you take any other action based on this information before seeking the advice of a professional.
The conveyancing solicitors conducting our conveyancing in Barton Seagrave has forwarded papers to review that state the property is unregistered with epitome documents. Is it not the case that all properties in Barton Seagrave are registered?
Whilst the vast majorities of properties in Barton Seagrave are now registered with HM Land Registry there are still some that remain unregistered. Any property in Barton Seagrave that has been transferred since the late 1980’s will have been registered at the HMLR under the compulsory ‘first registration’ scheme. However, if a Barton Seagrave property has not changed hands in that time then it’s likely the old fashioned title deeds will be the only evidence of ownership.Plenty of Barton Seagrave conveyancing lawyers will be able to handle such matters but where uncertainty exists the standard recommendation nowadays is for the seller’s conveyancer to address the registration formalities first and subsequently sell - this no doubt cause a significant delay.