Please help. My Belsize Park solicitor is advising me that he has toconduct Belsize Park conveyancing searches due to the fact thatthe firm are on the Santanderconveyancing panel. Is this really necessary?
Unfortunately both you and your lawyer have little choice here. As you are obtaining a mortgage with a bank your property lawyer has to comply with their conditions as set out in their version of the CML Conveyancing Handbook. Your conveyancing practitioner would have previously signed the Terms and Conditions of your lender’s conveyancing panel appointment which obliges them to follow the CML Handbook requirements . Even if you were a cash buyer you would be ill advised not to carry out Belsize Park conveyancing searches.
Finally the sale completed on my house in Belsize Park last August yet the purchaser is whats apping daily to say her conveyancer needs to hear from myconveyancer. What should my lawyer have done now that I have sold?
Following your house sale your conveyancer should deliver the transfer documentation and all supplemental paperwork to the purchaser's solicitors. Where appropriate, your lawyer must also confirm that the home loan has been discharged to the purchasers conveyancers. There is unlikely to be post completion steps peculiar conveyancing in Belsize Park.
A friend recommended that where I am buying in Belsize Park I should 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 Belsize Park conveyancing searches. It is a large report of about 40 pages, listing and detailing significant information about Belsize Park 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 type of People living in the area, the dominant type of Housing, the Average Property Price, Crime statistics, Local Education with plans and statistics, Local Amenities and other useful data concerning Belsize Park.
About to purchase a new build apartment in Belsize Park. Conveyancing is necessary evil at the best of times but I have never purchased a new build flat before. Can you give me some examples of some of the questions asked in new build legal work.
Set out below are examples of a few leasehold new build enquiries that you may expect your new-build leasehold conveyancing in Belsize Park
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The Landlord must covenant to assume the management if the Management Company goes into liquidation or otherwise defaults in running the management scheme. The Lease must contain a provision on behalf of the Vendor to pay the service charges in respect of unoccupied units in order to ensure that all services can be provided. Will the freehold then be transferred for a nominal consideration (not exceeding £100) to the Management Company? Please supply evidence that the form of Lease proposed has been approved by the Land Registry. Please confirm the Lease plans are architect prepared.
Yesterday I discovered that there is a flying freehold element on a house I put an offer in last month in what was supposed to be a straight forward, chain free conveyancing. Belsize Park is the location of the property. Can you shed any light on this issue?
Flying freeholds in Belsize Park are rare but are more likely to exist in relation to terraced houses. Even though you don't necessarily need a conveyancing solicitor in Belsize Park you must be sure that your lawyer goes through the deeds very carefully. Your mortgage company may require your conveyancing solicitor to take out an indemnity policy. Some of the more diligent conveyancing solicitors in Belsize Park 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 residence.
My husband and I are first time buyers - agreed a price, yet the property agent advised that the owners will only proceed if we appoint the agent's chosen solicitors as they need a ‘quick sale’. My instinct tells me that we should use a family conveyancer who is familiar with conveyancing in Belsize Park
We suspect that the owner is not behind this request. If they require ‘a quick sale', taking such a hostile approach to a genuine purchaser is going to damage their objectives. Bypass the agents and go straight to the sellers and make sure they understand (a)you are keen to buy (b)you are excited to move forward, with mortgage lined up © you have nothing to sell (d) you wish to move quickly (e)however you are going to use your own,trusted Belsize Park conveyancing firm - as opposed tothe ones that will provide the estate agent a referral fee or hit his conveyancing thresholds pre-set by corporate headquarters.