It may have been a long time coming a mortgage agreement from HSBC for the remortgage of my single bedroom apartment is to be issued within the next few days. Are you able to propose a cheap conveyancing lawyer in Birstall?
This site is not designed to help those in their quest for a cheap conveyancing in Birstall. We can offer you affordable conveyancing but our intention is not to work with the cheapest lawyers. Resist the temptation to appoint companies teasing you with ninety nine pound conveyancing in Birstall. In your best case scenario, in going for cheap conveyancing, you will end up with what you pay for and at worst you will end up spending a lot in additional fees and still not receive the service required.
We are about to sign contracts for a ground floor flat in Birstall. We have hit a stumbling block. The loan offer with Alliance & Leicester runs out on 23/4/2026 but the owners are insisting on a completion date of 27/4/2026. Can one prolong the loan expiry date?
The best person to deal with your concern is your conveyancer who should assess whether he or she is better off negotiating with the lender, seller’s representatives, selling agents or indeed all parties taking into account what has gone on in your transaction to date.
A relative suggested that where I am buying in Birstall I should carry out a Neighbourhood, Planning and Local Amenity Search. What does it cover?
This is a search is occasionally included in the estimate for your Birstall conveyancing searches. It is not a small document of more than thirty pages, listing and setting out important information about Birstall around the property and the people living there. It includes an Aerial Photograph, Planning Applications, Land Use, Mobile Phone Masts, Rights of Way, the Birstall 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 information regarding Birstall.
Me and my brother own a terraced Georgian house in Birstall. Conveyancing solicitor acted for me and Halifax. I happened to do a free search for it on the Land Registry database and there are a couple of entries: the first freehold, another for leasehold under the exact same address. I'd like to know for sure, how can I find out??
You need to read the Freehold register you have again and check the Charges Register for mention of a lease. The best way to be sure that you are also the registered owner of the leasehold and freehold title as well is to check (£3). It is not completely unheard of in Birstall and other areas of the country and poses no real issues for owners other than when they remortgage they have to account for both freehold and leasehold interests when dealing with lenders. You can also check the situation with the conveyancing solicitor who conducted the purchase.
The estate agent has sent us the confirmation of our purchase of a new build apartment in Birstall. Conveyancing is a frightening process 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 conveyancing.
Here is a sample of a few leasehold new build enquiries that you may expect your new-build leasehold conveyancing in Birstall
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Will control of the Management Company (if any) be handed over to purchasers on completion of the last sale or earlier? Where there is an Undertaking being granted there is the risk of forfeiture of the Headlease subject to relief if one or more of the Underlessees are willing to accept the original Head Lessee’s obligations as otherwise relief will be denied to the Underlessees. The only alternatives are the Head Lessor agreeing not to forfeit the Headlease or the Head Lessee guaranteeing to the Underlessees that it will not be in breach of the Headlease. Where service of notices and proceedings can be at the property demised please confirm that this can be amended to include simultaneous services at the Lessees’ solicitors’ offices where the Lessee from time to time is not resident in the UK - such solicitors may be varied by notice in writing to the Landlord from time to time but otherwise will be as previously specified. Investor purchasers must be able to freely grant unsecured tenancies at market rents without requiring any consents. Will the freehold then be transferred for a nominal consideration (not exceeding £100) to the Management Company?
I need to appoint a conveyancing solicitor for sale conveyancing in Birstall. I've chance upon a web site which seems to have the perfect solution If there is a chance to get all this stuff done via email that would be preferable. Do I need to be wary? What are the potential pitfalls?
As usual with these online conveyancers you need to read ALL the small print - did you notice the extra charge for dealing with the mortgage?