Would the conveyancing practitioners identified via your search tool carry out auction conveyancing in Birstall?
There are a number of niche lawyers we can connect you with those conducting auction conveyancing. Birstall is one of hundreds of locations where our lawyers are based.
Will my conveyancing lawyers need to check that the building insurance when buying a house in Birstall. My lender is Nationwide Building Society
Nationwide Building Society have specific requirements as set out in the UK Finance Lenders’ Handbook. As of 28/2/2025, the requirements read as follows :
Do I need to pay for insurance to cover chancel repairs when acquiring a house in Birstall?
Unless a previous purchase of the house completed post 12 October 2013 you could expect conveyancing practitioners carrying out conveyancing in Birstall to continue to advocate a chancel search and or chancel repair liability policy.
Just had an offer accepted on 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.
Set out below are examples of a selection of leasehold new build enquiries that you should expect your new-build leasehold conveyancing in Birstall
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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. Has the Lease plan been approved by the Land Registry and if not when will they be lodged for this purpose? Investor purchasers must be able to freely grant unsecured tenancies at market rents without requiring any consents. Please supply a car parking plan. The Landlord must covenant to assume the management if the Management Company goes into liquidation or otherwise defaults in running the management scheme.
I decided to have a survey completed on a property in Birstall prior to retaining solicitors. I have been advised that there is a flying freehold overhang to the house. Our surveyor advised that some banks may not grant a mortgage on a flying freehold house.
It varies from the lender to lender. HSBC has different instructions from Nationwide. If you call us we can check via the appropriate bank. If you lender is happy to lend one our lawyers can assist as they are used to dealing with flying freeholds in Birstall. Conveyancing can be more complicated and therefore you should check with your conveyancing solicitor in Birstall to see if the conveyancing will be more expensive.
I'm converting the mortgage on my existing property to a buy to let loan with Nottingham Building Society and intend to use the remaining equity as a deposit on a second property. The neighborhood we are interested in is Birstall. Will your solicitors be able to act for both sets of banks and link together the conveyances?
Make use of our search tool on this site to ensure that the lawyers are on the relevant lender panels. Having checked that they are the conveyancer should be able to connect the two deals but you should talk with you solicitor and communicate your expectations and needs.