Finally the sale completed on my house in Bramford last September but the buyer keeps SMS messaging me complaining that his solicitor needs to hear from mine. What are the post completion sale formalities following completion?
Post completion of your sale your solicitor should deliver the transfer deeds and all of the paperwork to the purchaser's solicitors. Where appropriate, your lawyer must also send confirmation that the legal charge in favour of the lender has been paid off to the buyers solicitors. There is unlikely to be post completion requirements just for conveyancing in Bramford.
Our bank has suggested a law firm on their panel based in Bramford but I would rather instruct a conveyancing lawyer in Bramford or nearer to where I live. Are you able to assist?
It is by no means the case that all Bramford conveyancing practices are on all lender’s conveyancing panel. Use the above search tool to identify a Bramford conveyancing conveyancer on the on the mortgage company panel.
We are buying a property and the conveyancer has referenced Chancel Repair to which the house could be liable given it’s proximity to the area of such a church. He has recommended insurance. Is this strictly required for conveyancing in Bramford
Unless a prior purchase of the property completed after 12 October 2013 you may take it that lawyers handling conveyancing in Bramford to remain encouraging a chancel search and or insurance against a claim.
I used Action Conveyancing a few years ago for my conveyancing in Bramford. I now require my papers but cannot find the solicitor. What do I do?
Do call the Solicitors Regulatory Authority (SRA) to assist in tracing your conveyancing files. They can be contacted on please contact on 0870 606 2555. Alternatively, you should use their online form to make an enquiry. You will need to provide the SRA with as much information as possible to assist their search, including the name and address in Bramford of the conveyancing firm of solicitors you previously retained, the name of conveyancing solicitor with whom you had dealings, and the date on which you last had dealings with the firm.
Yesterday I discovered that there is a flying freehold element on a house I have offered on a fortnight ago in what was supposed to be a straight forward, chain free conveyancing. Bramford is the location of the property. Can you offer any assistance?
Flying freeholds in Bramford are not the norm but are more likely to exist in relation to terraced houses. Even though you don't necessarily need a conveyancing solicitor in Bramford you must be sure that your lawyer goes through the deeds very carefully. Your lender may require your conveyancing solicitor to take out an indemnity policy. Some of the more diligent conveyancing solicitors in Bramford 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 premises.
Our mortgage broker has recommended their solicitor for the conveyancing in Bramford - Is it not simpler better to just use them?
This is not necessarily the case and you are entitled to use whichever solicitor you decide for your Bramford conveyancing. The solicitor recommended by an estate agent may not always be the best conveyancer, they may recommend their own conveyancing firm who are based far away. In this instance you may not have contact with your property lawyer and due to the lack of continuity in the transaction, it may be difficult to obtain progress reports.