After what seems like an age a mortgage agreement from Santander for the remortgage of my single room flat is to be issued any day now. Are you able to suggest a cheap conveyancing practitioner in Coniston?
This site is not designed to assist those in pursuit of a cheap conveyancing solicitors in Coniston. We can offer you affordable conveyancing but we do not work with the cheapest lawyers. Avoid the trap of appointing companies teasing you with £100 conveyancing in Coniston. Optimistically, in deciding on low cost conveyancing, you will earn what you pay for and at worst it will result in you invoiced for additional fees and still not end up with the service required.
Can the conveyancing solicitors identified via your search tool conduct auction conveyancing in Coniston?
There are a number of niche practitioners we can put you in touch with those specialising in auction conveyancing. Coniston is just one of our locations where our lawyers cover.
I purchased a freehold house in Coniston but still invoiced for rent, why is this and what is this?
It is rare for properties in Coniston and has limited impact for conveyancing in Coniston but some freehold properties in England (particularly common in North West England) pay an annual sum known as a Chief Rent or a Rentcharge to a third party who has no other legal interest in the land.
Rentcharge payments are usually between £2.00 and £5.00 per year. Rentcharges have existed for hundreds of years, but the Rent Charge Act 1977 barred the creation of new rentcharges from 1977 onwards.
Old rentcharges can now be extinguished by making a lump sum payment under the Act. Any rentcharges that are still in existence after 2037 is to be extinguished.
My relative recommended that where I am buying in Coniston I should carry out a Neighbourhood, Planning and Local Amenity Search. What does it cover?
A search of this type is usually included in the estimate for your Coniston conveyancing searches. It is a large document of about 40 pages, listing and detailing significant information about Coniston around the property and the people living there. It includes an Aerial Photograph, Planning Applications, Land Use, Mobile Phone Masts, Rights of Way, the local Housing Market, Council Tax Banding, the demographics of People living in the area, the dominant type of Housing, the Average House Prices, Crime details, Local Education with maps and statistics, Local Amenities and other useful information about Coniston.
I used Action Conveyancing several years past for my conveyancing in Coniston. I now require my file however cannot find the solicitor. What do I do?
You should contact the Solicitors Regulatory Authority (SRA) to help locate 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 Coniston 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.
There are only Sixty One years unexpired on my lease in Coniston. I now want to get lease extension but my landlord is absent. What options are available to me?
If you qualify, under the Leasehold Reform, Housing and Urban Development Act 1993 you can submit an application to the County Court for for permission to dispense with the service of the initial notice. This will mean that your lease can be extended by the magistrate. However, you will be required to demonstrate that you have done all that could be expected to track down the freeholder. On the whole an enquiry agent may be useful to try and locate and to produce a report which can be accepted by the court as proof that the freeholder can not be located. It is advisable to get professional help from a conveyancer both on devolving into the landlord’s absence and the application to the County Court overseeing Coniston.
I am the registered owner of a basement flat in Coniston, conveyancing was carried out May 2005. Can you give me give me an indication of the likely cost of a lease extension? Corresponding properties in Coniston with a long lease are worth £190,000. The ground rent is £45 levied per year. The lease comes to an end on 21st October 2088
With just 62 years left to run the likely cost is going to be between £17,100 and £19,800 plus plus your own and the landlord's "reasonable" professional fees.
The figure above a general guide to costs for renewing a lease, but we are not able to advice on the actual costs without more detailed due diligence. You should not use this information in tribunal or court proceedings. There may be other concerns that need to be considered and clearly you should be as accurate as possible in your negotiations. Neither should you take any other action based on this information without first getting professional advice.