Can the conveyancing lawyers identified via your search tool execute attended exchange conveyancing in Brondesbury?
There are a few conveyancing experts carrying out attended exchanges. Do contact us to secure a fee calculation and details as to availability.
I am looking to buy a flat and need a conveyancing solicitor in Brondesbury who is on the Alliance & Leicester approved. Can you recommend a local solicitor?
Our service is limited to being a directory service for firms who wish to listed as being on the approved conveyancing panel for Alliance & Leicester in certain locations such as Brondesbury. We dont recommend any particular firm.
A colleague advised me that where I am buying in Brondesbury 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 usually quoted for as part of the standard Brondesbury conveyancing searches. It is not a small report of about 40 pages, listing and setting out important information about Brondesbury around the property and the people living there. It includes an Aerial Photograph, Planning Applications, Land Use, Mobile Phone Masts, Rights of Way, the local Housing Market, Council Tax Banding, the demographics of People living in the area, the dominant type of Housing, the Average Property Price, Crime details, Local Education with plans and statistics, Local Amenities and other useful information about Brondesbury.
Due to the encouragement of my in-laws I had a survey completed on a house in Brondesbury before appointing lawyers. I have been advised that there is a flying freehold aspect to the property. Our surveyor advised that some mortgage companies may refuse to grant a loan on a flying freehold home.
It varies from the lender to lender. HSBC has different instructions from Birmingham Midshires. Should you wish to telephone us we can check via the relevant lender. If you lender is happy to lend one our lawyers can assist as they are accustomed to dealing with flying freeholds in Brondesbury. Conveyancing can be more complicated and therefore you should check with your conveyancing solicitor in Brondesbury to see if the conveyancing costs will increase in light of this.
We're new on the property ladder - agreed a price, yet the estate agent told us that the owners will only move forward if we use the agent's chosen lawyers as they want an ‘expedited deal’. My instinct tells me that we should use a family conveyancer with experience of conveyancing in Brondesbury
It is unlikely the vendors are behind this. If they desire ‘a quick sale', turning down a motivated buyer is going to damage their objectives. Avoid the agents and go straight to the sellers and make sure they understand (a)you are serious buyers (b)you are excited to move forward, with mortgage lined up © you are chain free (d) you intend to proceed fast (e)however you intend to appoint your preferred Brondesbury conveyancing solicitors - rather thanthe ones that will earn the negotiator at the agency a commission or hit his conveyancing figures demanded by senior management.
I am employed by a long established estate agent office in Brondesbury where we see a few flat sales put at risk due to short leases. I have received conflicting advice from local Brondesbury conveyancing firms. Can you shed some light as to whether the owner of a flat can initiate the lease extension process for the purchaser on completion of the sale?
As long as the seller has owned the lease for at least 2 years it is possible, to serve a Section 42 notice to start the lease extension process and assign the benefit of the notice to the purchaser. This means that the proposed purchaser can avoid having to sit tight for 2 years to extend their lease. Both sets of lawyers will agree to form of assignment. The assignment has to be done prior to, or simultaneously with completion of the disposal of the property.
An alternative approach is to agree the lease extension with the freeholder either before or after the sale. If you are informally negotiating there are no rules and so you cannot insist on the landlord agreeing to grant an extension or transferring the benefit of an agreement to the buyer.
I have tried to negotiate informally with with my landlord to extend my lease without success. Can one apply to the Leasehold Valuation Tribunal? Can you recommend a Brondesbury conveyancing firm to assist?
Where there is a missing freeholder or where there is dispute about the premium for a lease extension, under the relevant statutes it is possible to make an application to the First-tier Tribunal (Property Chamber) to make a decision on the premium.
An example of a Lease Extension matter before the tribunal for a Brondesbury premises is 50a Cavendish Road in April 2014. The Tribunal determines that the premium payable by the Applicant in respect of the extension of the lease for the flat was £82,319. This case related to 1 flat. The unexpired term was 49.26 years.