My wife and I are planning to purchase a home in Brunswick Park and are in fact using a Brunswick Park conveyancing firm. Within the past 48 hours our conveyancer has forwarded the sale agreement to be signed with a detailed report in anticipation of exchanging contracts shortly. Britannia have this afternoon contacted us to advise us that there is now an issue as our Brunswick Park conveyancer is not on their approved list of lawyers. What do we do from here?
When purchasing a property with mortgage finance it is usual for the purchasers' solicitors to also act for the mortgage company. In order to act for a bank or building society a law firm has to be on that lender's conveyancing panel. An application has to be made by the law firm to the lender to become a member of the lender's panel and there are increasingly strict criteria which the firm has to satisfy and indeed some lenders now require their panel members to be part of the Law Society’s Conveyancing Quality Scheme. Your solicitor should contact your bank and see if they can apply for membership of their conveyancing panel, but if that is not viable they will instruct their own solicitors to act. You don't have to instruct a firm on the lender’s conveyancing panel and you may continue to use your own Brunswick Park solicitors, in which case it will likely add costs, and it may delay matters as you have another set of people involved.
Can your site be used to recommend a Conveyancing solicitor in Brunswick Park even where I’m not buying or disposing of a house, for example if I intend to buy a shop in Brunswick Park with a mortgage from The Mortgage Works?
Our comparison service is mainly there to find domestic conveyancing solicitors in Brunswick Park but we have set out at the bottom of this page some Brunswick Park commercial conveyancing firms. You should enquire with the solicitors directly to check if they can also act for The Mortgage Works
We just had an offer accepted to buy with Coventry BS. I popped in a couple of local solicitors but am struggling to find a Brunswick Park conveyancing firm on the Coventry BS approved list. Can you assist?
You should make the most of the find a conveyancing panel solicitor tool on this site. Pick the lender and type Brunswick Park or your location and you will be presented with numerous solicitors based in Brunswick Park or nearest you.
About to purchase a new build flat in Brunswick Park. Conveyancing is a frightening process at the best of times but I have never purchased a new build flat before. Can you give me some examples of some of the questions asked in new build conveyancing.
Here is a sample of a few leasehold new build questions that you can expect your new-build leasehold conveyancing in Brunswick Park
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Please confirm the Lease plans are architect prepared. Will control of the Management Company (if any) be handed over to purchasers on completion of the last sale or earlier? Where service of notices and proceedings can be at the property demised please confirm that this can be amended to include simultaneous services at the Lessees’ solicitors’ offices where the Lessee from time to time is not resident in the UK - such solicitors may be varied by notice in writing to the Landlord from time to time but otherwise will be as previously specified. There must be mutual enforceability of lessee’s covenants. Please supply evidence that the form of Lease proposed has been approved by the Land Registry.
I’m about to sell my ground floor apartment in Brunswick Park. Conveyancing solicitors are to be appointed soon, however I have recently had a quarterly service charge invoice – Do I pay up?
It best that you pay the maintenance contribution as normal because all rents and service invoices should be apportioned on completion, so you should recover the relevant percentage by the purchaser for the period running from after the completion date to the subsequent invoice date. Most managing agents will not acknowledge the buyer unless the service charges have been paid and are up to date, so it is important for both buyer and seller for the seller to show that they are up to date. Having a clear account will assist your cause and will leave you no worse off financially.
I am the leaseholder of a a ground floor purpose built flat in Brunswick Park. Given that I can not reach agreement with the landlord, can the Leasehold valuation Tribunal determine the amount due for a lease extension?
if there is a missing freeholder or if there is disagreement about the premium for a lease extension, under the relevant statutes you can apply to the First-tier Tribunal (Property Chamber) to assess the amount due.
An example of a Freehold Enfranchisement decision for a Brunswick Park 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 term was 70.31 years.
I'm purchasing a house in Brunswick Park. I have found my conveyancer's company on the Law Society's list, but I can't find my lawyer's name as listed on the regulator's website. Should I be concerned?
Not every individual in the law firm must be listed by the regulator. As long there is someone qualified to 'oversee' the transaction, the actual day-to-day activity can be undertaken by unlicensed staff.