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I am acquiring residence in Botany Bay. My Conveyancer is not on the mortgage company approved panel. Is it possible for me to continue with my Botany Bay conveyancing solicitor notwithstanding that they are not on the lender panel?

You must instruct a property lawyer to deal with the legal work required if you require a mortgage to buy your home. They will carry out all the appropriate investigations on the property, ensuring that you will be properly registered as the owner and ensure that all the required mortgage documentation is in order. One may instruct a Botany Bay property lawyer of your choosing. Nevertheless, where the conveyancer selected is not on the bank approved list supplemental fees will be incurred as separate legal representation will be required by them. Bank panel applications may be submitted, so provided your conveyancer has not historically applied for membership they should do so.

Is there a reason why leasehold purchase conveyancing in Botany Bay is more expensive?

The conveyancing costs on a leasehold property in Botany Bay is inevitably greater when contrasted to a freehold property. This is because there is an amount of additional time required in communicating with the landlord and management company to collate the evidence about whether the rent and maintenance charges have been cleared and whether there are any large sums expected to be spent in the foreseeable future on repairs or maintenance of the building.

My house in Botany Bay is up for sale and I have accepted an offer. Does the lawyer have to be on the Nottingham conveyancing panel in order to deal with paying off my mortgage?

Ordinarily, even if your lawyer is not on the Nottingham conveyancing panel they can still act for you on your sale. It might be that the lender will not release the original deeds (if applicable and increasingly irrelevant) until after the mortgage is paid off. You should speak to your lawyer directly before you start the process though to ensure that there is no problem as lenders are changing their specifications fairly frequently currently.

A colleague recommended that where I am purchasing in Botany Bay I should carry out a Neighbourhood, Planning and Local Amenity Search. Can you explain what the purpose of this search is?

This is a search is occasionally included in the estimate for your Botany Bay conveyancing searches. It is not a small report of about 40 pages, listing and setting out important information about Botany Bay around the property and the people living there. It includes an Aerial Photograph, Planning Applications, Land Use, Mobile Phone Masts, Rights of Way, the Botany Bay Housing Market, Council Tax Banding, the demographics of People living in the area, the dominant type of Housing, the Average Property Price, Crime details, Botany Bay Education with maps and statistics, Local Amenities and other useful data about Botany Bay.

Yesterday I discovered that there is a flying freehold issue on a property I have offered on last month in what should have been a straight forward, chain free conveyancing. Botany Bay is where the house is located. Can you offer any advice?

Flying freeholds in Botany Bay are rare but are more likely to exist in relation to terraced houses. Even where you use a solicitor outside Botany Bay you would need to get your solicitor to go through the deeds thoroughly. Your lender may require your conveyancing solicitor to take out an indemnity policy. Some of the more diligent conveyancing solicitors in Botany Bay may decide that this is not enough and that the deeds be re-written to give you the most up to date legal protection. If so, the next door neighbour also had to sign up to the revised deeds.It is possible that your lender will not accept the situation so the sooner you find out the better. You should also check with your insurance broker as to whether they will insure a flying freehold residence.

If all goes to plan we aim to complete our sale of a £475,000 garden flat in Botany Bay next Thursday. The managing agents has quoted £420 for Landlord’s certificate, insurance certificate and 3 years service charge statements. Is it legal for a freeholder to charge an administration fee for a leasehold conveyance in Botany Bay?

For the majority of leasehold sales in Botany Bay conveyancing will involve, queries regarding the management of a building inevitably needing to be answered directly by the freeholder or its agent, this includes :

Addressing pre-exchange questions Where consent is required before sale in Botany Bay Supplying insurance information Deeds of covenant upon sale Registering of the assignment of the change of lessee after a sale

Your solicitor will have no control over the level of the charges for this information but the average costs for the information for Botany Bay leasehold premises is £350. For Botany Bay conveyancing transactions it is customary for the seller to pay for these costs. The landlord or their agents are under no legal obligation to answer such questions most will be willing to do so - albeit often at exorbitant prices where the fees bear little relation to the work involved. Unfortunately there is no law that requires fixed charges for administrative tasks. Neither is there any legal time frame by which they are required to provide answers.

I am the leaseholder of a first floor flat in Botany Bay. In the absence of agreement between myself and the landlord, can the Leasehold valuation Tribunal make a decision on the amount payable for a lease extension?

Most definitely. We can put you in touch with a Botany Bay conveyancing firm who can help.

An example of a Freehold Enfranchisement decision for a Botany Bay property is 23 Beaconsfield Road in July 2013. The Tribunals decided that the amount payable was £31,203 for the freehold. This case related to 2 flats. The unexpired lease term was 70.31 years.