This question may be naive but I am unexperienced as a 1st time purchaser of a garden flat in Colindale. Do I pick up the keys to the house on the completion date from my conveyancer? If so, I will appoint a High Street conveyancing solicitor in Colindale?
On the day of completion you do not need to attend the conveyancers office in Colindale. Conveyancing lawyers for you will electronically transfer the completion advance to the vendor’s lawyers, and shortly after the monies have arrived, you should be called to collect the keys from the Estate Agents and start moving into the property. Usually this happens early afternoon.
My partner and I have arranged the release of further funds on our home loan from Clydesdale as we wish to carry out improvements to our home in Colindale. Do we need to appoint a bricks and mortar Colindale solicitor on the Clydesdale conveyancing panel to deal with the paperwork?
Clydesdale would not normally instruct a member of their approved list of lawyers to deal with the formalities. If they do require any legal work then you would need to ensure that such a lawyer was on the Clydesdale list.
I have a mortgage with Santander for my property in Colindale. Conveyancing has been completed a year ago. Should I wish to rent out the flat and do not currently have a buy-to-let mortgage do I need to remortgage to a buy-to-let mortgage or inform Santander?
You must advise Santander before letting out your property as this is likely to be a breach of Santander’s mortgage conditions. In many cases banks or building societies will permit you to let out your former home without needing to switch to a buy-to-let mortgage but some lenders will add a surcharge to your mortgage rate to reflect the higher risk. You should contact Santander directly. You need not do this via a Santander conveyancing panel firm.
Should commercial conveyancing searches reveal impending roadworks that could impact a commercial property in Colindale?
Many commercial conveyancing solicitors in Colindale will perform a SiteSolutions Highways report as it reduces the time that conveyancers spend in investigating accurate data on highways that impact buildings and development assets in Colindale. The report provides definitive information on the adoption status of roads, footpaths and verges, as well as the implication of traffic schemes and the rights of way surrounding a commercial development sites in Colindale.
For every commercial conveyancing transaction in Colindale it is critical to investigate the adoption status of roads surrounding a site. Failure to identify developments where adoption procedures have not been addressed adequately can cause delays to Colindale commercial conveyancing deals as well as present a risk to future intentions for the site. These searches are not conducted for domestic conveyancing in Colindale.
I used Action Conveyancing several years past for my conveyancing in Colindale. I now require my file however the law firm has closed. What do I do?
Do contact the Solicitors Regulatory Authority (SRA) to assist in tracing your conveyancing files. They can be contacted on please contact on 0870 606 2555. Alternatively, you should use their online form to make an enquiry. You will need to provide the SRA with as much information as possible to assist their search, including the name and address in Colindale of the conveyancing firm of solicitors you previously instructed, the name of conveyancing solicitor with whom you had dealings, and the date on which you last had dealings with the firm.
How simple is it to swap conveyancer as I have to select one who is on the Bank of Scotland conveyancing panel. I hired a family conveyancing solicitor in Colindale five minutes from me but she is not approved by Bank of Scotland
It would be our pleasure to help you find a conveyancing solicitor in Colindale on the Bank of Scotland panel. Please note that the property lawyers that we work with do not pay us fee if you instruct them and are authorised and regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority who regulate all conveyancing solicitors in Colindale. In making use of the find a conveyancing solicitor tool on this website, you can compare and instruct different solicitors and conveyancers both nationally and in Colindale.
I am using a search engine for the term on line conveyancing in Colindale it brings up many property lawyersin the area. How do I determine which is the right conveyancing solicitor for me?
The best method of finding the right conveyancer is via personal referral, so ask friends and those you trust who have bought a property in Colindale or the respected estate agent or financial adviser. Charges for conveyancing in Colindale vary, so it's advisable to obtain a minimum of four fee estimates from varying types of law firms. Be sure to obtain confirmation that the fees are fixed.
A conveyancing firm dealt with my conveyancing in Colindale 5 years past having stored my title documents but has now closed – What can I do to get hold of these?
Deeds, as such, no longer exist as most properties in Colindale are archived digitally at Land Registry. Should you need to establish ownership or are disposing of or refinancing your conveyancing practitioner should obtain up to date copies of the register from the Land Registry in any case.
If you feel there may be other documents or you have any other queries please e-mail your request with details of the transaction and documents you need to filerequest@clc-uk.org. The CLC will let you know what information they have and any additional information they may need before they are in a position to identify and send the documents to you. Following an intervention it may take some time for the CLC to access archived files and documents, but your request will be actioned with reasonable haste.