My partner and I are acquiring a newly built flat in Bellingham and my lawyer is telling me that she has to the bank to disclose incentives from the developer. I am under pressure to exchange and my preference is not to prolong the conveyancing. is my lawyer playing by the book?
You should not exchange unless you have been advised to do so by your lawyer. A precondition to being on a bank panel is to comply with the UK Finance Lenders’ Handbook provisions. The CML Conveyancing Handbook requires that your lawyer have the appropriate Disclosure of Incentive form completed by the developer and accepted by your lender.
Finally the sale completed on my house in Bellingham last April yet the purchaser is Skype messaging every few hours to say their lawyer needs to hear from mysolicitor. What are the post completion sale formalities following completion?
Following your house sale your conveyancer should send the transfer deeds and all of the paperwork to the buyer’s lawyers. Where appropriate, your conveyancer should also send confirmation that the legal charge in favour of the lender has been repaid to the purchasers lawyers. There are no post completion procedures unique to conveyancing in Bellingham.
Do I need to pop into the offices of the solicitor to sign the legal charge? If so, I will instruct a firm who offer conveyancing in Bellingham so that I can pop in to their offices if necessary.
As opposed to twenty years ago, almost all lenders no longer need their conveyancing panel lawyer to witness the borrowers signature. You will still be obliged to provide identification documents and there are still distinct benefits to instructing a local solicitor, in your case a conveyancing solicitor in Bellingham.
I am helping my mother sell her property in Bellingham. Will the conveyancer order an energy performance certificate or it is for me to see to?
After the abolition of HIPs, energy assessments was maintained a required part of selling a house. An energy assessment needs to be commissioned prior to the property being marketed. It is not as aspect of the sale process that conveyancers ordinarily organise. Where you are using a Bellingham conveyancing solicitor they may be able to arrange EPC’s given their contacts with reputable local assessors
How can we tell if a Bellingham conveyancing solicitor on the Aldermore panel is any good?
When it comes to conveyancing in Bellingham getting recommendations is a good starting point. Before you go ahead, check if they offer a no sale no fee offer. Also, you often get what you pay for - a firm which quotes more, will often provide a better service than one which is cheap as chips. We would always recommend that you speak with the lawyer handling your transaction.
My offer was accepted on a house in Bellingham on 8/12/2025, valuation was booked 2 days after, received a clean bill of health. Conveyancer appointed, so all that was missing was my mortgage offer. Having made daily calls to Lloyds and chasing them on my offer, I have now been told that my offer will not be issued unless the lawyer is on the Lloyds conveyancing panel. Can the lender hold off the offer?
A lender would not issue a mortgage until they have details of a lawyer on their panel. It can take a few weeks for Lloyds to deal with your lawyer's application to be on the Lloyds conveyancing panel. There's no guarantee that your solicitor will be accepted.
How simple is it to switch solicitor as I need to instruct a firm on the TSB conveyancing panel. I hired a local conveyancing solicitor in Bellingham five minutes from me but she is not approved by TSB
It would be our pleasure to help you select a conveyancing solicitor in Bellingham on the TSB panel. Please note that the conveyancers that we work with do not pay us fee if you instruct them and are under regulation of the SRA who regulate all conveyancing solicitors in Bellingham. In utilising search facility on this page, you can scrutinise charges for conveyancing solicitors in Bellingham and throughout England and Wales.
I have just started marketing my ground floor apartment in Bellingham. Conveyancing solicitors are to be appointed soon, but I have recently had a yearly maintenance charge demand – Do I pay up?
The sensible thing to do is clear the invoice as usual as all rents and service invoices should be allotted on completion, so you should recover the relevant percentage by the purchaser for the period running from after the completion date to the subsequent invoice date. Most management companies will not acknowledge the buyer until 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 attempted and failed to negotiate with my landlord to extend my lease without getting anywhere. Can one make an application to the Leasehold Valuation Tribunal? Can you recommend a Bellingham conveyancing firm to help?
Where there is a absentee freeholder or where there is disagreement about the premium for a lease extension, under the Leasehold Reform, Housing and Urban Development Act 1993 it is possible to make an application to the First-tier Tribunal (Property Chamber) to make a decision on the premium.
An example of a Freehold Enfranchisement matter before the tribunal for a Bellingham premises is 75 Woolstone Road in February 2012. the decision of the Tribunal was that the appropriate amount to be paid to purchase the freehold was the sum of £17,711 . This case affected 2 flats. The unexpired lease term was 68.28 and 158.