My family lawyer has given a fee estimate just over a thousand pound for leasehold conveyancing in Cambridgeshire. I’m hoping to sell a purpose built house for £275,000. This sounds over the top. Is it above the average fee for conveyancing in Cambridgeshire?
The charges are a tad high. If you shop around you may be able to get the conveyancing a bit cheaper by perhaps £125. On the other hand, you maycome to rue choosing an a cheaper lawyer. If is important to be sure that the firm can represent your mortgage company. You can employ our search tool to choose a Cambridgeshire conveyancing company on the lender’s approved list of lawyers which can often include conveyancing solicitors in Cambridgeshire.
After researching online forums for a cheap lawyer in Cambridgeshire, many say that I should instruct a CQS assured lawyer. What is CQS?
The Law Society's Conveyancing Quality Scheme is the recognised kitemark for legal experts in buying or selling property, trusted by some of the UK's major banks. Four years ago the Conveyancing Quality Scheme was officially recognised by the Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML). CQS is not a scheme offered by the Society for Licensed Conveyancers. Cambridgeshire is one of the numerous areas in England and Wales where there are CQS lawyers.
Me and my partner are buying a property in Cambridgeshire. It might be a silly question but how we can trust a lawyer? At some point we will need to send our life savings into their account. What protection do we have from them run away with our money?
Be assured that all money in a Solicitors client account is 100% safe, and even if your Solicitor ran off with it, the Law Society would reimburse you fully.
Is it the case that all Cambridgeshire CQS (Conveyancing Quality Scheme) solicitors are on the Co-operative conveyancing list of approved practices?
It is true that some lenders now utilise CQS as the starting point for Panel membership such as HSBC and Santander. CQS membership however gives no guarantee to lender panel acceptance. Nevertheless,the Council of Mortgage Lenders have indicated that it is likely to become a pre-requisite for solicitor practices wishing to join their approved list of firms.
I have today made my last payment due on my mortgage with Lloyds. I assume I don't need a Cambridgeshire conveyancing practitioner on the Lloyds panel to discharge the mortgage at the Land Registry. Please confirm.
If you have finished paying off your Lloyds mortgage, they may send you evidence showing that you have paid it off. Alternatively they may notify the Land Registry directly. The Land Registry need to see this evidence before they will remove the Lloyds mortgage from the register. Lloyds, and any evidence they send you, will determine the action you need to take. In cases where no conveyancer is acting for you and you have paid off your mortgage:
- but are not moving to another property
- where Lloyds has sent the Land Registry the discharge electronically, and
- Lloyds has instructed the Land Registry to do so
I appreciate that there are debates on Chancel Insurance on online forums. Do I need this when purchasing a property in Cambridgeshire? or I am told that there is historic law that could mean that house owners residing in a parish church boundary will be compelled to pay for maintenance to the chancel within the church. Is this applicable for conveyancing in Cambridgeshire?
Unless a previous purchase of the premises completed post 12 October 2013 you could assume that lawyers conducting conveyancing in Cambridgeshire to remain recommending a chancel search and or insurance against a claim.
Despite weeks of looking the Title Certificate and documents to my house are lost. The lawyers who handled the conveyancing in Cambridgeshire 4 years ago have long since closed. Will I be able to sell the house?
You no longer need to hold title official documentation to establish that you own the land or premises, as the Land Registry hold details of all registered land or property electronically.
Is it possible to change conveyancer as I need to find one who is on the Norwich and Peterborough Building Society conveyancing list. I had appointed a family conveyancing solicitor in Cambridgeshire five minutes from me but the firm is not approved by Norwich and Peterborough Building Society
It would be our pleasure to assist you select a conveyancing solicitor in Cambridgeshire on the Norwich and Peterborough Building Society panel. Please note that the solicitors that we on the directory do not pay us fee if you instruct them and are registered with the Solicitors Regulation Authority who regulate all conveyancing solicitors in Cambridgeshire. In utilising the find a conveyancing solicitor tool on this website, you can contrast charges for conveyancing solicitors in Cambridgeshire and beyond.