The lawyer who dealt with my previous purchase has given a fee calculation of £1150 for no sale no fee conveyancing in Crosby. I am selling a Victorian house for £175,000. This sounds over the top. Is it in excess of what I should be paying for conveyancing in Crosby?
The costs illustration is slightly on the expensive side. Where you are content to spend time scrutinising fee on a like for like basis you might shave off some of the expense by perhaps £125. That being said, you couldcome to rue opting for an an unknown lawyer. Remember to ensure that the conveyancer can represent your bank. You can employ our search tool to find a Crosby conveyancing firm on the lender’s member panel which can often include conveyancing solicitors in Crosby.
I am helping my aunt sell her property in Crosby. Does the conveyancing solicitor arrange an energy performance certificate or do I organise this?
After the abolition of HIPs, energy assessments was left as a compulsory element of selling a house. An energy performance certificate must be commissioned prior to the property being marketed. It is not as aspect of the sale process that conveyancers ordinarily arrange. Where you are instructing a Crosby conveyancing lawyer they may be able to arrange energy assessments given their relationships with long established Crosby energy assessors
How can we know in advance if a Crosby conveyancing solicitor on the Virgin Money panel is any good?
When it comes to conveyancing in Crosby getting recommendations is a good start. Before you go ahead, check if they offer a no sale no fee offer. Also, you often get what you pay for - a firm which quotes more, will often provide a better service than one which is cheap as chips. We would always recommend that you speak with the lawyer carrying out your conveyancing.
My husband and I are in the process of viewing apartments in Crosby and I am about to put in an offer. Is it sensible to have my property lawyer on ‘stand by’? I am planning to take a home loan with TSB.
You should start requesting conveyancing quotes from solicitors ASAP. After you have chosen your lawyer and once your offer is accepted you can instruct them to work for you and pass their contact information on to the EA. As you are seeking a mortgage with TSB, ask your prospective lawyers if they are on the TSB conveyancing panel otherwise they can't do the mortgage legal work.
I own a semi-detached Edwardian house in Crosby. Conveyancing practitioner represented me and Britannia. I did a free Land Registry search last week and I saw a couple of entries: the first freehold, the second leasehold with the exact same address. If a house is not a freehold shouldn't I have been informed?
You should assess the Freehold register you have again and check the Charges Register for mention of a lease. The best way to be sure that you are also the registered owner of the leasehold and freehold title as well is to check (£3). It is not completely unheard of in Crosby and other areas of the country and poses no real issues for owners other than when they sell they have to account for both freehold and leasehold interests when dealing with mortgage companies. You can also check the position with your conveyancing solicitor who conducted the conveyancing.
I am looking for a leasehold apartment up to £245,000 and found one round the corner in Crosby I like with open areas and railway links in the vicinity, the downside is that it's only got 51 years on the lease. There is not much else in Crosby in this price bracket, so just wondered if I would be making a mistake buying a lease with such few years left?
If you need a mortgage the shortness of the lease will be an issue. Reduce the price by the amount the lease extension will cost if it has not already been discounted. If the existing owner has owned the property for at least twenty four months you could ask them to commence the lease extension formalities and then assign it to you. You can add 90 years to the current lease term and have £0 ground rent by law. You should consult your conveyancing solicitor about this.
My husband and I are a couple of weeks into a freehold purchase having been referred to solicitors by the high street agent to handle our conveyancing in Crosby. We are not happy. Can you help me find new conveyancers?
They would need to be really poor to suggest replacing them. Has your loan offer been sent? If so you need to inform them of the new solicitor and ensure the loan are re-sent. Your conveyancer needs to be on the banks panel to avoid escalating costs and complications. So that should be your first question of the new conveyancers. The search tool can assist you in finding a bank approved conveyancer for your home move in Crosby
18 days into a sale of a flat in Crosby. Conveyancing solicitors are doing their job but we are being charged a fortune by the freeholder. So far we have issued a cheque for £250 for a leasehold management pack and then another £117.20 for supplemental queries raised by the purchaser's lawyer.
Neither you or your conveyancer will have any impact over the extent of the bill for this information but the typical fee for the information for Crosby leasehold property is £380. When it comes to Crosby conveyancing sales it is usual for the seller to cover the charges. The landlord or their agents are under no legal obligation to answer such questions although many will be content to do so - albeit often at exorbitant prices disproportionate to the work involved. Regretfully there is no statute that requires set fees for administrative tasks. Neither is there any prescriptive time limit by which they are obliged to issue the information.