Do the conveyancing solicitors identified via your search tool handle attended exchange conveyancing in Birtley?
We do have a number of conveyancing experts who can conduct personalised exchanges. You should call us to receive a costs illustration and details as to dates.
My Solicitor in Birtley has never been on on the Aldermore Conveyancing Panel. Is it possible for me to use my prefered solicitor notwithstanding that they are not on the Aldermore panel of approved conveyancing solicitors?
Your options are as follows:
- Carry on with your preferred Birtley solicitors but Aldermore will need to instruct a solicitor on their panel. This will inevitably rack up the total conveyancing charges and cause delays.
- Find a new practitioner to act in the purchase, remembering to check they are Aldermore approved.
- Persuade your Aldermore solicitor to attempt to join the Aldermore panel
We had instructed conveyancing lawyers located in Birtley on the Nottingham solicitor approved list. They are now charging me an additional amount for the legal aspects of the Nottingham mortgage. Is this a supplemental conveyancing fee set by Nottingham?
Provided it is contained in their Terms of Engagement or Quote then yes your solicitor may charge a fee for this. The fee is not dictated by Nottingham but by your Birtley solicitor. Numerous firms on the Nottingham panel will levy an ‘acting for lender’ fee but some practices incorporate it on their overall fee.
My partner and I are spending time looking at apartments in Birtley and I am about to put in an offer. Is it sensible to have my property lawyer on ‘stand by’? I am planning to take a mortgage with HSBC.
You should start requesting conveyancing estimates from solicitors ASAP. After you have chosen your lawyer and once your offer is accepted you can instruct them to work for you and forward their details on to the selling agent. As you are getting a mortgage with HSBC, ask your prospective lawyers if they are on the HSBC conveyancing panel otherwise they can't do the mortgage legal work.
After months of negotiation I have agreed a price on an apartment in Birtley. My mortgage broker recommended their conveyancers. I paid an upfront payment of £225. A couple of days later, the lawyer called me embarrassingly acknowledging that they were not on the Yorkshire BS conveyancing panel. Am I right in thinking that I should be due a refund?
You should be able to recover this from the law firm if they were not on the Yorkshire BS panel. They should have asked at the outset which lender you were obtaining a mortgage with. An important lesson to readers of this site is to check that the lawyers are on the appropriate lender panel.
A colleague recommended that if I am purchasing in Birtley 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 sometimes included in the estimate for your Birtley conveyancing searches. It is a large document of more than thirty pages, listing and setting out important information about Birtley 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 demographics of People living in the area, the dominant type of Housing, the Average Property Price, Crime details, Birtley Education with plans and statistics, Local Amenities and other useful data regarding Birtley.
Taking into account that I will soon spend £400,000 on a property in Birtley I would like to talk to a conveyancer about myhome move before giving the go ahead to the firm. Is this something that you can arrange?
Absolutely - we would be delighted to talk to you we do not take any clients on without you first talking to the lawyer due to be conducting your property ownership legalities in Birtley.There is no ‘factory style conveyancing’ - each client is unique person, not a file number. The law firms that we put you in touch with believe that the fees you are quoted for your conveyancing in Birtley should be the figure that you end up paying.
Is it best to instruct a Birtley conveyancing practitioner based in the location that I am buying? We have a good friend who can carry out the legal work however they are based 200kilometers away.
The benefit of a high street Birtley conveyancing practice is that you can attend the office to sign documents, deliver your ID and pester them if necessary. They will also have local insight which is a bonus. However nothing is more important than finding someone that will pull out all the stops for you. If you know people who used your friend and they were content that should trump using an unknown Birtley conveyancing solicitor solely due to them being round the corner.