I am acquiring a house mortgage free in Custom House. I have lived for the previous twelve years in Custom House. Conveyancing searches are expensive. As I have knowledge of the road and vicinity intimately should I not bother getting the solicitor to do all the conveyancing searches?
Provided that you do not need a mortgage, then the vast majority of the Custom House conveyancing searches are non-obligatory. Your solicitor will ’encourage you, no-doubt strongly, that you should have searches done, but he is duty bound to take that path of encouragement . Do bear in mind; if you are likely to sell the house in the future, it could be of interest to your future buyer what the searches contain. On occasion premises with functional issues can still throw up detrimental search results. A good conveyancing solicitor in Custom House will provide you some practical guidance concerning this.
We are looking to buy a property and need a conveyancing solicitor in Custom House who is on the HSBC approved panel. Could you point me in the right direction as regards a firm?
Our service is limited to being a directory service for firms who wish to be listed as being on the approved conveyancing panel for HSBC . We don't recommend any particular firms conducting conveyancing in Custom House.
Have just purchased a probate house at auction in Custom House. Conveyancing is required. What are my next steps?
Now that you are exchanged you must find a conveyancing practitioner soon as you will have a pending deadline in which to complete the conveyancing. An auction property will ordinarily have an associated auction pack. This will include evidence of title and search results. Where you are dealing with leasehold property the conveyancing papers may provide a copy of the lease, management information and a sellers leasehold information form and other conveyancing paperwork specific to leasehold premises. You should pass this on to the solicitor instructed by you ASAP. You also need to ensure that your finances are organised to complete the transaction on the set completion date.
This question may be naive but I am unseasoned as FTB of a garden flat in Custom House. Do I collect the keys to the property on the completion date from my conveyancer? If this is the case, I will instruct a local conveyancing solicitor in Custom House?
On the day of completion you will not be required to go to the conveyancers office in Custom House. Conveyancing lawyers for you will arrange to send the purchase money to the vendor’s conveyancers, and shortly after the monies have arrived, you should be called to receive the keys from the selling Agents and start moving into the property. Usually this occurs between 1 and 3pm.
My stepmother advised me that in purchasing a property in Custom House there could be various restrictions prohibiting external alterations to a property. Is this right?
There are a number of properties in Custom House which have some sort of restriction or requirement of consent to external alterations. Part of the conveyancing in Custom House should determine what restrictions are applicable and advising you as part of a ROT that should be sent to you.
Over the last few months I have been searching for a flat up to £305k and identified one close by in Custom House I like with a park and railway links nearby, however it's only got 51 years on the lease. There is not much else in Custom House in this price bracket, so just wondered if I would be making a mistake buying a short lease?
Should you need a home loan the remaining unexpired lease term will be problematic. Discount the price by the expected lease extension will cost if it has not already been discounted. If the current owner has owned the premises for at least 2 years you could ask them to start the process of the extension and then assign it to you. You can add 90 years to the existing lease term and have £0 ground rent by law. You should speak to your conveyancing lawyer about this matter.
I'm converting the mortgage on my primary home to a buy to let mortgage with Lloyds TSB Bank and intend to use the remaining equity as a down payment on another house. The area we are interested in is Custom House. Will your solicitors be able to act for the two banks and link together the transactions?
Do use our search tool on this page to be sure that the lawyers are on the relevant lender panels. Having checked that they are the lawyer should be able to simultaneously deal with the two deals but you should talk with you lawyer and specify your desired outcome and requirements.
I bought a flat in Custom House last 22/4/2025 and to date it is still not registered with HMLR. It is part of a new estate and my conveyancer told me that it can take twelve months to register. I have spoken with the Land Registry directly and they say that the original application was cancelled due to questions not being addressed in time. What can I do?
Contact your solicitor - if you are not getting sensible responses, look up their internal complaints procedure and amplify your problem to a Partner. Registrations for Custom House conveyancing are not known to be particularly slow.