It has taken forever and a day but a loan agreement from Nationwide for the refinancing of my 2 bedroom maisonette is to be issued imminently. Are you able to propose a low cost conveyancing practitioner in Bristol?
You are on the wrong site if you are in need of the cheapest conveyancing in Bristol. Our goal is to offer affordable conveyancing but we do not aim to work with the cheapest lawyers. Resist the temptation to appoint brokers teasing you with £100 conveyancing in Bristol. Optimistically, in going for cheap conveyancing, you will receive what you pay for and at worst you will end up being stung for additional fees and still not end up with the service required.
Having sold my house in Bristol last March but our buyer keeps e-mailing every few hours to moan that his lawyer is waiting to hear from mine. What should my lawyer have done following completion?
Post completion of your disposal your conveyancer should send the transfer deeds and all additional paperwork to the buyer’s solicitors. Where appropriate, your conveyancer must also evidence that the mortgage has been repaid to the purchasers solicitors. There is unlikely to be post completion steps peculiar conveyancing in Bristol.
Due to the advice of my in-laws I had a survey completed on a property in Bristol ahead of appointing lawyers. I have been told that there is a flying freehold aspect to the property. My surveyor advised that some banks tend refuse to issue a loan on this type of property.
It varies from the lender to lender. Lloyds has different instructions for example to Birmingham Midshires. If you e-mail us we can check via the appropriate lender. If you lender is happy to lend one our lawyers can help as they are accustomed to dealing with flying freeholds in Bristol. Conveyancing will be smoother if you use a solicitor in Bristol especially if they are accustomed to such properties in Bristol.
Am I better off to choose a Bristol conveyancing lawyer who is local to the property I am buying? I have an old university friend who can deal with the legal formalities but his firm is located 200kilometers away.
The benefit of a local Bristol conveyancing practice is that you can drop in to sign paperwork, hand in your identification documents and apply pressure on them where appropriate. They will also have local knowledge which is a bonus. That being said nothing is more important than finding someone that will pull out all the stops for you. If if people you trust instructed your friend and they were content that should outweigh using an unfamiliar Bristol conveyancing solicitor just because they are round the corner.
Frank (my husband) and I may need to rent out our Bristol basement flat for a while due to taking a sabbatical. We used a Bristol conveyancing firm in 2002 but they have closed and we did not have the foresight to seek any advice as to whether the lease allows us to sublet. How do we find out?
The lease governs the relationship between the landlord and you the leaseholder; in particular, it will set out if subletting is not allowed, or permitted but only subject to certain conditions. The rule is that if the lease contains no specific ban or restriction, subletting is permitted. The majority of leases in Bristol do not prevent subletting altogether – such a clause would undoubtedly devalue the flat. Instead, there is usually a basic requirement that the owner notifies the freeholder, possibly sending a copy of the sublease.
I purchased a 2 bed flat in Bristol, conveyancing formalities finalised in 1996. Can you shed any light on how much the price could be for a 90 year extension to my lease? Corresponding properties in Bristol with an extended lease are worth £179,000. The average or mid-range amount of ground rent is £65 charged once a year. The lease finishes on 21st October 2082
You have 57 years unexpired we estimate the price of your lease extension to span between £26,600 and £30,800 as well as plus your own and the landlord's "reasonable" professional fees.
The suggested premium range above a general guide to costs for extending a lease, but we are not able to advice on the actual costs without more detailed investigations. You should not use the figures in a Notice of Claim or as an informal offer. There are no doubt additional issues that need to be considered and clearly you should be as accurate as possible in your negotiations. Please do not take any other action based on this information without first getting professional advice.
I bought a house in Bristol last 18/11/2024 and to date it is still not recorded with HM Land Registry. It was part of a new estate and my conveyancing practitioner told me that it may take over a year to register. I have contacted HM Land Registry directly and they say that the original application was cancelled due to failure to reply to requisitions. What can I do?
It is your property lawyer that you really need to turn to here in order to satisfy any issues which have been raised as part of the registration process for your Bristol property. Normal Bristol conveyancing practice includes an undertaking on the part of the seller's solicitor that they will assist in resolving any registration raised by HMLR so it may be a case of seeking to enforce that undertaking in some way.