Do conveyancers ask for money up-front for my conveyancing in Chase Side?
Where you are retaining lawyers for conveyancing in Chase Side your solicitor will ask you put them with monies to cover the the cost of the conveyancing searches. This will be the total of the cost of the Local Authority Search. If any down payment is as part of the purchase price then this should be needed immediately prior to exchange of contracts. Any further balance that is due should be sent to your lawyer shortly before completion.
My partner and I are spending time looking at flats in Chase Side and I am now considering a potential offer. Is it advisable to have my conveyancing practitioner on ‘stand by’? I intend to finance via a mortgage with Kent Reliance.
It would be prudent to start your search sooner rather than later. After you have chosen your lawyer and once your offer is accepted you can instruct them to work for you and forward their contact information on to the estate agent. As you are obtaining a mortgage with Kent Reliance, ask your prospective lawyers if they are on the Kent Reliance conveyancing panel otherwise they can't do the mortgage legal work.
My offer was accepted on an apartment in Chase Side on 30/6/2025, valuation was booked 2 days after, all came back fine. Property lawyer appointed, so all that was missing was my mortgage offer. Having made daily calls to UBS and chasing them on my offer, I have now been told that my offer will not be issued unless the lawyer is on the UBS conveyancing panel. Are UBS entitled to hold back the Mortgage pending the lawyer being on the approved list?
A lender would not issue a mortgage until they have details of a lawyer on their panel. It can take a few weeks for UBS to deal with your lawyer's application to be on the UBS conveyancing panel. There's no guarantee that your solicitor will be accepted.
After shopping around on the internet I have found a Chase Side conveyancer having checked that they are on the TSB conveyancing panel. Does my lawyer arrange the survey of the property?
TSB will need an independent valuation of the property. Your lawyer will not arrange this. Usually TSB will appoint their own surveyor to do this, and you will have to pay for it. Remember that this is a valuation for mortgage purposes and not a survey. You may wish to consider appointing your own Chase Side surveyor to carry out a survey or prepare a home buyers report on the property. It is up to you to satisfy yourself that the property is structurally sound before you buy it. If the survey or report reveals that building work is needed, you should tell your solicitor. You may wish to renegotiate with the seller.
What can a local search inform me about the house I am purchasing in Chase Side?
Chase Side conveyancing often commences with the applying for local authority searches directly from your local Authority or through a personal search company for example Searches UK The local search plays an important role in many a Chase Side conveyancing purchase; as long as you don’t want any unpleasant surprises after you move into your new home. The search will supply data on, amongst other things, details on planning applications relevant to the property (whether granted or refused), building control history, any enforcement action, restrictions on permitted development, nearby road schemes, contaminated land and radon gas; in all a total of 13 subject headings.
Are there restrictive covenants that are commonly identified during conveyancing in Chase Side?
Covenants that are restrictive in nature can be picked up when reviewing land registry title as part of the process of conveyancing in Chase Side. An 1874 stipulation that was seen was ‘The houses to be erected on the estate are each to be of a uniform elevation in accordance with the drawings to be prepared or approved by the vendor’s surveyor…’
How does conveyancing in Chase Side differ for newly converted properties?
Most buyers of new build or newly converted property in Chase Side come to us having been asked by the builder to sign contracts and commit to the purchase even before the residence is built. This is because developers in Chase Side typically purchase the site, plan the estate and want to get the plots sold off as they are building the properties. Buyers, therefore, will have to exchange contracts without actually seeing the house they are buying. To reduce the chances of losing the property, buyers should instruct conveyancing solicitors as soon as the property is reserved and mortgage applications should be submitted quickly. Due to the fact that it could be several months and even years between exchange of contracts and completion, the mortgage offer may need to be extended. It would be wise to use a lawyer who specialises in new build conveyancing especially if they are accustomed to new build conveyancing in Chase Side or who has acted in the same development.
I'm remortgaging my current home to a BTL loan with Skipton Building Society and I will use the ballance of the raised equity towards a second property. The neighborhood we are looking at is Chase Side. Will your solicitors be able to act for the two lenders and link together the transactions?
Do use our comparison tool on this site to ensure that the solicitors are on the relevant lender panels. Having checked that they are your conveyancer should be able to simultaneously deal with the two deals but you should have a chat with you solicitor and communicate your expectations and needs.