Completed the sale of my flat in Berkshire last August but the buyer keeps whats apping me complaining that his solicitor is waiting to hear from mylawyer. What are the post completion sale formalities following completion?
Following your house sale your lawyer is obliged to deliver the transfer deeds and all of the paperwork to the purchaser's conveyancer. Where appropriate, your solicitor must also evidence that the mortgage has been repaid to the buyers conveyancers. There are no post completion tasks specific conveyancing in Berkshire.
Will commercial conveyancing searches reveal planned roadworks that may impact a commercial site in Berkshire?
Its becoming the norm that commercial conveyancing solicitors in Berkshire will execute a SiteSolutions Highways report as it reduces the time that conveyancers spend in looking into accurate data on highways that impact buildings and development assets in Berkshire. The search result sets out definitive information on the adoption status of roads, footpaths and verges, as well as the implication of traffic schemes and the rights of way surrounding a commercial development sites in Berkshire.
For every commercial conveyancing transaction in Berkshire it is crucial to investigate the adoption status of roads surrounding a site. The absence of identifying developments where adoption procedures have not been dealt with adequately could cause delays to Berkshire commercial conveyancing deals as well as pose a risk to future intentions for the site. These searches are not carried out for domestic conveyancing in Berkshire.
I used Wolstenholmes several years ago for my conveyancing in Berkshire. I now require my file but the law firm has closed. What do I do?
Do contact 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 Berkshire 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.
I am purchasing my first flat in Berkshire with the aid of help to buy. The builders would not reduce the amount so I negotiated £7000 of extras instead. The house builders rep advised me not disclose to my lawyer about this extras as it would jeopardize my loan with The Mortgage Works. Is this normal?.
All lenders require a Disclosure of Incentives Form from the developer of any new build, converted or renovated property, It is available online from the Lenders’ Handbook page on the CML website. CML form is completed and handed to the lender's surveyor when the inspection is done.
Lenders have different policies on incentives. Some accept none at all, cash or physical, while others will accept cash incentives up to 5%.
Hard to understand why the representative of a builder would be suggesting you withold information from a solicitor when all this will be clearly visible on forms the builder has to supply to its solicitor, the buyer's solicitor and the surveyor.
How difficult is it to switch solicitor as I need to choose a firm on the Coventry Building Society conveyancing panel. I was using a local conveyancing solicitor in Berkshire round the corner but she is not approved by Coventry Building Society
It would be our pleasure to assist you select a conveyancing solicitor in Berkshire on the Coventry Building Society panel. Please note that the solicitors that we list do not pay us fee if you instruct them and are regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority who oversee all conveyancing solicitors in Berkshire. Using the find a conveyancing solicitor tool on this page, you can compare and instruct different solicitors and conveyancers both nationally and in Berkshire.
We're new on the property ladder - had an offer accepted, yet the selling agent informed us that the owners will only proceed if we use the agent's recommended lawyers as they want a ‘quick sale’. My instinct tells me that we should use a local solicitor with experience of conveyancing in Berkshire
We suspect that the owner is unaware of this request. If they desire ‘a quick sale', alienating a genuine buyer is going to damage their objectives. Contact the owners directly and make sure they comprehend that (a)you are keen to buy (b)you are ready to go, with finances arranged © you are unencumbered (d) you intend to proceed fast (e)but you are going to instruct your own,trusted Berkshire conveyancing solicitors - as opposed tothose that will provide the negotiator at the agency a introducer fee or hit his conveyancing thresholds set by corporate headquarters.