A colleague suggested that where I am purchasing in Bloomsbury I should ask my conveyancer to execute a Neighbourhood, Planning and Local Amenity Search. What does it cover?
This is a search is sometimes included in the estimate for your Bloomsbury conveyancing searches. It is not a small report of about 40 pages, listing and detailing significant information about Bloomsbury 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, Local Education with plans and statistics, Local Amenities and other useful data about Bloomsbury.
I have recentlyfound out that Arc property Solicitors have closed. They carried out my conveyancing in Bloomsbury for a purchase of a leasehold apartment 18 months ago. How can I check that my home is registered correctly in the name of the former proprietor?
The easiest method to check if the premises is in your name, you can carry out a search of the land registry (£3.00). You can either do this yourself or ask a law firm to do this for you. If you are not registered you can seek help from one of a number of Bloomsbury conveyancing specialists.
Due to the advice of my in-laws I had a survey completed on a property in Bloomsbury before instructing lawyers. I have been advised that there is a flying freehold overhang to the property. My surveyor has said that some lenders will not issue a loan on this type of home.
It varies from the lender to lender. Santander has different instructions from Nationwide. If you e-mail us we can look into this further with the appropriate mortgage company. If you lender is happy to lend one our lawyers can help as they are used to dealing with flying freeholds in Bloomsbury. Conveyancing can be more complicated and therefore you should check with your conveyancing solicitor in Bloomsbury to see if the conveyancing costs will increase in light of this.
I am looking into buying my first house which is in Bloomsbury and I am already nervous. I couldn't find anything specific about Bloomsbury. Conveyancing will be needed in due course but do you know about the Bloomsbury area? or perhaps some other tips you can share?
Rather than looking online forget looking online you should go and have a look at Bloomsbury. In the meantime here are some basic statistics that we found
My wife and I purchased a leasehold house in Bloomsbury. Conveyancing and Godiva Mortgages Ltd mortgage are in place. A letter has just been received from someone claiming to own the freehold. It included a demand for arrears of ground rent dating back to 1995. The conveyancing practitioner in Bloomsbury who acted for me is not around. Any advice?
The first thing you should do is contact the Land Registry to be sure that this person is indeed the registered owner of the freehold reversion. You do not need to instruct a Bloomsbury conveyancing practitioner to do this as it can be done on-line for £3. Rest assured that regardless, even if this is the legitimate landlord, under the Limitation Act 1980 the limitation period for recovery of ground rent is six years.
Having spent years of correspondence we are unable to agree with our landlord on how much the lease extension should cost for our flat in Bloomsbury. Can we issue an application to the Residential Property Tribunal Service?
Where there is a missing landlord or if there is disagreement about what the lease extension should cost, under the Leasehold Reform, Housing and Urban Development Act 1993 it is possible to make an application to the Leasehold Valuation Tribunal to assess the premium.
An example of a Lease Extension decision for a Bloomsbury property is Flat 89 Trinity Court Grays Inn Road in February 2013. the Tribunal found that the premium to be paid by the tenant on the grant of a new lease, in accordance with section 56 and Schedule 13 to the Leasehold Reform, Housing and Urban Development Act 1993 should be £36,229. This case affected 1 flat. The unexpired term was 66.8 years.
We have been told by many family members to expect 6-8 weeks for Bloomsbury conveyancing to complete.This was four weeks ago. The property information was only forwarded to my solicitor yesterday so does the time start running now?
There is no conventional countdown for conveyancing in Bloomsbury, or any area in the UK. You just have to ensure that your finances are in order and in due course the rest will come to you eventually.