Can your site be used to locate a Conveyancing solicitor in Cromer even if I’m not buying or disposing of a house, for instance where I intend to buy a shop in Cromer with a mortgage from TSB?
The service is primarily used to help choose residential conveyancing solicitors in Cromer but we have set out towards the end of this page a selection of Cromer commercial conveyancing firms. You will need to speak with the company directly to establish if they can also act for TSB
My aunt passed away last year and as sole heir and executor I was left the house in Cromer. The house had a relatively small loan left on it of around £8000. I want to transfer the title deeds into my name whilst I re-mortgage to Virgin Money, pay off the mortgage. Is this possible?
If you intend to re-mortgage then Virgin Money will insist on your using a conveyancer on the Virgin Money conveyancing panel. Here is link to the Land Registry online guidance around what to do when a property owner dies. This will help you to understand the registration process behind changing the details re the registered title. in your case it would appear that you are effectively purchasing the property from the estate. Your Virgin Money conveyancing panel solicitor pays the new mortgage money into the estate, the estate pays off the old mortgage, the charge is released and you become the owner and the Virgin Money mortgage is registered as a charge at the Land Registry.
My relative suggested that where I am buying in Cromer I should ask my conveyancer to carry out a Neighbourhood, Planning and Local Amenity Search. Can you explain what the purpose of this search is?
This is a search is sometimes included in the estimate for your Cromer conveyancing searches. It is a large document of more than thirty pages, listing and detailing significant information about Cromer around the property and the people living there. It includes an Aerial Photograph, Planning Applications, Land Use, Mobile Phone Masts, Rights of Way, the Cromer Housing Market, Council Tax Banding, the demographics of People living in the area, the dominant type of Housing, the Average Property Price, Crime details, Local Education with plans and statistics, Local Amenities and other useful data regarding Cromer.
I used Action Conveyancing a few years ago for my conveyancing in Cromer. Now, I need my files but the law firm is no longer operating. 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 Cromer of the conveyancing firm of solicitors you previously retained, the name of conveyancing solicitor with whom you had dealings, and the date on which you last had dealings with the firm.
I'm remortgaging my current property to a BTL mortgage with Lloyds TSB Bank and intend to use the remaining equity as a down payment on a second property. The area we are interested in is Cromer. Will your conveyancers be able to act for the two mortgage companies and link together the two deals?
Do use our comparison tool on this page to check that the conveyancers are on the appropriate lender panels. Having checked that they are your lawyer should be able to connect the two transactions but you should have a chat with you solicitor and communicate your desired outcome and needs.
My cousin is buying a ground floor flat in Cromer. He has received a fee estimate by the property lawyer suggested by the estate agents and it came to £1275 . It was 9 years ago since I sold and purchased a home and the bill was £500. Have charges really gone up that much?
We would recommend that you contact 3 or 4 local Cromer conveyancing firms requesting prices. You should base your selection not only on cost, but on promptness and on how comprehensive the response was.