My husband and I are acquiring a brand new flat in Cheshire and my conveyancer is advising me that she is duty bound to the bank to reveal incentives from the seller. The Estate Agents are hassling me to exchange and I have no desire to prolong the conveyancing. Is my lawyer right?
You should not exchange unless you have been advised to do so by your solicitor. A precondition to being on a bank panel is to comply with the UK Finance Lenders’ Handbook provisions. The UK Finance Conveyancing Handbook requires that your lawyer have the appropriate Disclosure of Incentive form completed by the developer and accepted by your lender.
My wife and I are purchasing a house in Cheshire. It might be a silly question but how we can trust a solicitor? At some point we have to deposit money into their account. What protection do we have from them run away with our monies?
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.
I'm the sole recipient of my late mum's estate with all property in now in my sole name, including the house in Cheshire. The Cheshire property was put into my name in October. I want to move. I do know about the CML six month 'rule', meaning my property ownership will be considered the same way as if I'd bought the house in October. Will no one buy the property for half a year?
The Council of Mortgage Lenders’ handbook mandates conveyancers to: "report to us immediately if the owner or registered proprietor has been registered for less than six months." By the strict wording you may be caught by that. How practical a view mortgage companies take of it, depend on the mortgage company as this obligation chiefly exists to capture subsales or the quick reselling of property.
My wife and I are in the process of looking at apartments in Cheshire and I am about to put in an offer. Should I already have a lawyer in place at this point? I intend to finance via a mortgage with Barclays.
You should start requesting conveyancing quotes from solicitors ASAP. Once you decide who you want to use and once your offer is accepted you can instruct them to work for you and forward their contact information on to the estate agent. Given that you are seeking a mortgage with Barclays, ask your prospective lawyers if they are on the Barclays conveyancing panel otherwise they can't do the mortgage legal work.
I have justfound out that Wolstenholmes have closed. They carried out my conveyancing in Cheshire for a purchase of a freehold house 12 months ago. How can I be sure that my home is in my name in the name of the previous owner?
The quickest way to check if the property is registered to you, you can carry out a search of the land registry (£3.00). You can either do this yourself or ask a law firm to do this for you. If you are not registered you can seek help from one of a number of Cheshire conveyancing specialists.
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We're FTB’s - agreed a price, but the agent has warned us that the vendor will only proceed if we instruct their chosen conveyancers as they need a ‘quick sale’. We would rather use a family solicitor with experience of conveyancing in Cheshire
We suspect that the seller is unaware of this demand. Should the seller require ‘a quick sale', taking such a hostile approach to a genuine buyer is is going to put the whole deal at risk. Bypass the agents and go straight to the owners and make sure they understand (a)you are keen to buy (b)you are ready to go, with mortgage lined up © you are unencumbered (d) you intend to proceed fast (e)but you are going to instruct your own,trusted Cheshire conveyancing firm - not the ones that will provide the estate agent a introducer fee or achieve conveyancing thresholds pre-set by HQ.
We are soon to buying a flat in Cheshire. Could the lawyer keep our purchase price a secret from sites such as Nestoria. what can I do to ensure this is not disclosed?
HM Land Registry as a matter of law obliged to reveal price paid data on a register of the title for residential properties nationwide which includes premises in Cheshire. The register of title is an open document, so HM Land Registry would be breaching their statutory obligations if they did not allow access to the register.
You can make a request of HM Land Registry to withhold the amount paid entry however the answer would be a No.