My wife and I have recently appointed a conveyancing solicitor in Belvedere. I need to find out if they are accepted on the Leeds Building Society approved list of lawyers. Could you advise?
You should call your solicitor and ask them if they can act for the bank. Otherwise please get in touch with Leeds Building Society who may be able to confirm.
I am purchasing a property in Belvedere. One unusual aspect is that the roof has a solar panel. Barclays 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 Barclays your lawyer must check the formal requirements set out in Section two of UK Finance Lenders’ Handbook for Barclays. The CML Handbook stipulates minimum conditions for solar panel roof-space leases, and property lawyers are required to report to Barclays where a lease fails to satisfy these requirements. The provisions relate to the installation of panels on properties in England and Wales and is not restricted to Belvedere.
I am selling my flat. I had a double glazing fitted in June 2007, but did not receive a FENSA certificate or Building Regulation Certificate. My purchaser’s mortgage company, UBS are being problematic. The Belvedere solicitor who is on the UBS conveyancing panel is happy to accept ‘lack of building regulation’ insurance but UBS are insisting on a building regulation certificate. Why do UBS have a conveyancing panel if they don't accept advice from them?
It is probably the case that UBS have referred the matter to their valuer. The reason why UBS may not want to accept indemnity insurance is because it does not give them any reassurance that the double glazing was correctly and safely installed. The indemnity insurance merely protects against enforcement action which is very unlikely anyway.
Planning on purchasing a flat in Belvedere. I have received an online quote from a licenced conveyancer, which states: "There will be no charge for dealing with the Lender if you are obtaining a mortgage". I take this to mean that there will be no additional fee if the solicitor is on the Skipton conveyancing panel. I wanted to make sure it means there will be no additional fees for dealing with the mortgage.
They are simply saying that the cost for acting for the lender is included in the fee being quoted. It is worth you checking that the Belvedere conveyancing practitioner is on the Skipton conveyancing panel.
My colleague suggested that if I am purchasing in Belvedere 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 included in the estimate for your Belvedere conveyancing searches. It is not a small document of about 40 pages, listing and setting out important information about Belvedere around the property and the people living there. It includes an Aerial Photograph, Planning Applications, Land Use, Mobile Phone Masts, Rights of Way, the Belvedere Housing Market, Council Tax Banding, the type of People living in the area, the dominant type of Housing, the Average House Prices, Crime details, Belvedere Education with maps and statistics, Local Amenities and other useful information concerning Belvedere.
Is it possible to switch conveyancer as I need to instruct one who is on the Chelsea Building Society conveyancing panel. I hired a family conveyancing solicitor in Belvedere five minutes from me but he is not approved by Chelsea Building Society
We will our best to assist in finding you a conveyancing solicitor in Belvedere on the Chelsea Building Society panel. Please note that the solicitors that we list do not pay us a referral fee if you instruct them and are under regulation of the Solicitors Regulation Authority who regulate all conveyancing solicitors in Belvedere. In utilising search facility on this page, you can compare costs for conveyancing solicitors in Belvedere and throughout England and Wales.
I have been sourcing a conveyancing lawyer in Belvedere for my home move. Can I see a firm’s complaints history with the legal regulator?
Members of the public can find presented Solicitor Regulator Association (SRA) decisions arising from investigations started on or after Jan 2008. Visit Check a solicitor's record. To find records Pre 2008, or to check a solicitors history, phone 0870 606 2555, 08.00 - 18.00 Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and 09.30 - 18.00 Tuesday. For non-uk callers, call +44 (0)121 329 6800. The regulator sometimes monitor call for training reasons.
Having checked my lease I have discovered that there are only Sixty One years left on my flat in Belvedere. I now want to get lease extension but my landlord is missing. What options are available to me?
If you qualify, under the Leasehold Reform, Housing and Urban Development Act 1993 you can submit an application to the County Court for for permission to dispense with the service of the initial notice. This will enable the lease to be lengthened by the Court. However, you will be required to prove that you have used your best endeavours to locate the lessor. In some cases a specialist would be useful to carry out a search and prepare an expert document which can be used as proof that the freeholder can not be located. It is advisable to get professional help from a property lawyer in relation to devolving into the landlord’s disappearance and the application to the County Court covering Belvedere.
Having spent months of correspondence we are unable to agree with our landlord on how much the lease extension should cost for our flat in Belvedere. Does the Leasehold Valuation Tribunal have jurisdiction to calculate the appropriate figures?
Absolutely. We can put you in touch with a Belvedere conveyancing firm who can help.
An example of a Lease Extension decision for a Belvedere premises is Various @ Colombus Square in January 2012. the Tribunal calculated the premiums to be paid for new leases for each of the flats in Mariners Walk to be £3822 and the premium to be paid for the new lease of 2 Knights Court to be £4439. This case affected 13 flats. The number of years remaining on the existing lease(s) was 76 years.