Are you able to recommend a TSB accepted Brockley conveyancing conveyancer finish our house move within less than a month? Would it be better to use a high street Brockley conveyancer or a web based firm?
We can recommend some very good Brockley conveyancing firms. Another option is to visit the main road in Brockley. Visit some well established law practices and ask to speak with a conveyancing solicitor for a fee estimate. Mention your expectations together with the reasons and ask for a commitment on speed. Appoint the one that genuine.
We hope to to purchase with Loughborough BS. We have called around locally but am unable to find a Brockley conveyancing firm on the Loughborough BS panel. Please you help?
Please do make use of the find a lender approved solicitor tool on this site. Pick the building society and type Brockley or your preferred area and you will be presented with a number of lawyer offices in Brockley or nearest you.
This question may be naive but I am unexperienced as a first time buyer of a ground floor flat in Brockley. Do I collect the keys to the house on the completion date from my lawyer? If this is the case, I will use a local conveyancing solicitor in Brockley?
On the day of completion you do not need to go to the conveyancers office in Brockley. Conveyancing lawyers for you will electronically transfer the completion advance to the owner’s conveyancers, and once they have received this, you will be able to collect the keys from the property Agents and move into your new home. Usually this happens between 1 and 3pm.
My father informed me that in purchasing a property in Brockley there could be a number of restrictions preventing external changes to a property. Is this right?
There are a number of properties in Brockley which have some sort of restriction or requirement of consent to external variations. Part of the conveyancing in Brockley should determine what restrictions are applicable and advising you as part of a ROT that should be sent to you.
Is it the case that all Brockley solicitor practices on the UBS conveyancing panel are overseen by the SRA?
As a firm of solicitors, in order to be on the UBS approved list of solicitors they would need to be governed by the Solicitors Regulatory Authority. The majority of banks do list licenced conveyancers on their panel in which case such practice would be regulated by the CLC.
I used Wolstenholmes several years ago for my conveyancing in Brockley. I now require my file however cannot find the solicitor. What do I do?
Do call the Solicitors Regulatory Authority (SRA) to help locate 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 Brockley 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.
I am buying my first flat in Brockley with a loan from Norwich and Peterborough Building Society. The developers refused to reduce the price so I negotiated five thousand pounds worth of extras instead. The property agent advised me not reveal to my conveyancer about this extras as it could put at risk my loan with the bank. Should I keep quiet?.
All lenders require a Disclosure of Incentives Form from the developer of any new build, converted or renovated property, It is available online from the Lenders’ Handbook page on the CML website. CML form is completed and handed to the lender's surveyor when the inspection is done.
Lenders have different policies on incentives. Some accept none at all, cash or physical, while others will accept cash incentives up to 5%.
Hard to understand why the representative of a builder would be suggesting you withold information from a solicitor when all this will be clearly visible on forms the builder has to supply to its solicitor, the buyer's solicitor and the surveyor.
There are plenty of houses in Brockley on unadopted lanes. I am purchasing one such house. Are there any benefits to buying a property on a private road?
Brockley conveyancing lawyers are well versed in conveyancing homeson unadopted roads. The lawyer will investigate title to find any rights or responsibilities. In many cases there is a management company (wholly owned by residents) that proprietors pay into to maintain the road. If there is one, the road will likely be maintained and appear nicer than council maintained.