My wife and I have recently appointed a conveyancing solicitor in Boncath. I I am struggling to find out if they are on the Platform Home Loans Ltd conveyancing panel. Could you assist?
The first thing to do is call your lawyer and enquire if they can act for the bank. Otherwise you can get in touch with Platform Home Loans Ltd who may be able to help.
I just acquired a house at auction in Boncath. Conveyancing is required. What happens now?
Given that you have now legally bound yourself to purchase you will need to instruct a conveyancing practitioner soon as you will have a pending deadline in which to complete the deal. All auction property will ordinarily have a corresponding auction pack. This will include evidence of title and search results. In the case of leasehold premises the legal papers may provide a copy of the lease, management information and a sellers leasehold information form and other conveyancing paperwork specific to a leasehold property. You must give this to your appointed conveyancing solicitor as soon as possible. You also need to ensure that that you have the requisite funding in place to complete on the date specified in the contract.
My offer was accepted on an apartment in Boncath on 16/2/2026, valuation was booked 2 days later, received a clean bill of health. Property lawyer instructed, so the only thing outstanding was my mortgage offer. Having made daily calls to UBS and chasing them on my offer, I have now been told that my offer will not be issued unless the lawyer is on the UBS conveyancing panel. Can the lender hold off the offer?
Mortgage companies tend not to not issue a mortgage until they have details of a lawyer on their panel. It can take a few weeks for UBS to deal with your lawyer's application to be on the UBS conveyancing panel. There's no guarantee that your solicitor will be accepted.
Having read lots of house buying guides, I note that they all recommend that you should get your house surveyed prior to buying it. When I asked my local Boncath solicitor - who is on the Aldermore conveyancing panel - on this she said they don't do this and I need to contract an independent surveyor. Is that normal?
Aldermore will need an independent valuation of the property. Your lawyer will not arrange this. Usually Aldermore will appoint their own surveyor to do this, and you will have to pay for it. Remember that this is a valuation for mortgage purposes and not a survey. Your conveyancer will not organise the survey but they may be able to put you in touch with a local one that they recommend. RICS offers a find a surveyor service (just google it) where you can search for a qualified surveyor by your Boncath postcode. As you are getting a mortgage with Aldermore, you could contact them to see if they have a list of approved surveyors in Boncath.
I have todaybecome aware that Stirling Law have been shut down. They carried out my conveyancing in Boncath for a purchase of a freehold house 18 months ago. How can I check that my home is registered correctly in the name of the former proprietor?
The quickest method to check if the premises is registered to you, 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 Boncath conveyancing specialists.
I decided to have a survey carried out on a house in Boncath prior to instructing conveyancers. I have been informed that there is a flying freehold element to the property. The surveyor has said that some banks will refuse to give a mortgage on a flying freehold home.
It varies from the lender to lender. Lloyds has different requirements from Birmingham Midshires. Should you wish to telephone us we can check with the relevant bank. If you lender is happy to lend one our lawyers can assist as they are accustomed to dealing with flying freeholds in Boncath. Conveyancing can be more complicated and therefore you should check with your conveyancing solicitor in Boncath to see if the conveyancing costs will increase in light of this.
Hoping to buy a property located in Boncath and I am already nervous. I couldn't find anything specific about Boncath. Conveyancing will be needed in due course but do you know about the Boncath area? or perhaps some other tips you can share?
Rather than looking online forget looking online you should go and have a look at Boncath. In the meantime here are some basic statistics that we found
We're novice buyers - agreed a price, yet the selling agent has warned us that the seller will only issue a contract if we instruct their recommended solicitors as they are insisting on a ‘quick sale’. We would rather use a high street conveyancer with experience of conveyancing in Boncath
We suspect that the owner is unaware of this requirement. Should the vendor want ‘a quick sale', taking such a hostile approach to a serious buyer is is going to put the whole deal at risk. Contact the vendors directly and explain that (a)you are genuine buyers (b)you are ready to progress, with mortgage lined up © you have nothing to sell (d) you wish to move quickly (e)but you will continue to use your own,trusted Boncath conveyancing firm - rather thanthe ones that will earn the negotiator at the agency a introducer fee or achieve conveyancing thresholds pre-set by head office.