A mortgage offer from NatWest for the remortgage of my 3 bedroom flat is expected any day now. Can you put forward a low cost conveyancing law firm in Colney Hatch?
This site is not designed to help those in their quest for cut-price fees for conveyancing in Colney Hatch. We can offer you excellent value conveyancing but our intention is not to work with the cheapest lawyers. Avoid the trap of appointing brokers offering the bait of low cost conveyancing in Colney Hatch. Optimistically, in choosing a lawyer for low cost conveyancing, you will get your money’s worth and at worst it will result in you with a hefty uplift in extras and still not get the service you were looking for.
I am buying a flat and require a conveyancing solicitor in Colney Hatch who is on the Chelsea Building Society solicitor. Could you point me in the right direction as regards a conveyancing firm?
Our service is limited to being a directory service for firms who wish to listed as being on the approved conveyancing panel for Chelsea Building Society in certain locations such as Colney Hatch. We dont recommend any particular firm.
I recently had an offer accepted on an apartment in Colney Hatch. My financial adviser recommended their conveyancers. I paid an on account payment of £225. Shortly after, the lawyer contacted me sheepishly admitting that they were not on the Bank of Ireland conveyancing panel. Am I right in thinking that I should be due a refund?
You should be able to recover this from the law firm if they were not on the Bank of Ireland panel. They should have asked at the outset which lender you were obtaining a mortgage with. An important lesson to readers of this site is to check that the lawyers are on the appropriate lender panel.
Planning on purchasing a house in Colney Hatch. I have received an online quote from a licenced conveyancer, which states: "There will be no charge for dealing with the Building Society if you are obtaining a mortgage". I take this to mean that there will be no additional fee if the solicitor is on the Barclays conveyancing panel. I wanted to make sure it means there will be no additional fees for dealing with the mortgage.
They are simply saying that the cost for acting for the lender is included in the fee being quoted. It is worth you checking that the Colney Hatch conveyancer is on the Barclays conveyancing panel.
I had an offer accepted on a property in Colney Hatch on 12/3/2025, valuation was booked 3 days after, received a clean bill of health. Conveyancer appointed, so the only thing outstanding was my mortgage offer. Having made daily calls to Leeds Building Society and chasing them on my offer, I have now been told that my offer will not be issued unless the lawyer is on the Leeds Building Society conveyancing panel. Can the lender hold off the offer?
Mortgage companies tend not to not issue a mortgage until they have details of a lawyer on their panel. It can take a few weeks for Leeds Building Society to deal with your lawyer's application to be on the Leeds Building Society conveyancing panel. There's no guarantee that your solicitor will be accepted.
I appreciate that there are debates on Chancel Insurance on online forums. Am I compelled to have this when acquiring a house in Colney Hatch? or I am told that there is an ancient law that means some house owners living in a parish church boundary may be liable to contribute towards maintenance towards the chancel in proximity to the church. Is this relevant for conveyancing in Colney Hatch?
Unless a previous acquisition of the house took place post 12 October 2013 you could assume that conveyancing practitioners delivering conveyancing in Colney Hatch to continue to suggest a chancel search and or chancel repair liability insurance.
My partner has recommend that I appoint his conveyancing solicitors in Colney Hatch. Do I take his advice?
No doubt the ideal way to select a conveyancing solicitor is to have feedback from friends or relatives who have experience in using the conveyancer you're are thinking of instructing.
A couple of weeks ago I was told by my bank that their panel solicitors work on no move no charge basis for conveyancing in Colney Hatch. My purchase aborted and now the lawyers want search fees! They are claiming that the fees are nothing to do with their fees!
Colney Hatch conveyancing search costs are disbursements not legal costs as these are payable to a third party.