Our family lawyer has given a fee estimate £1200 for no sale no fee conveyancing in Deeside. I’m hoping to sell a Edwardian property for £150,000. Are the quoted fees excessive? Is it in excess of the norm for conveyancing in Deeside?
The costs illustration is fractionally on the expensive side. Where you are prepared to expend time comparing costs you could shave off some of the cost by say a hundred pounds. On the other hand, you maycome to regret opting for an a cheaper solicitor. Remember to ensure that the solicitor can represent your lender. You can utilise our comparison tool to select a Deeside conveyancing firm on the lender’s conveyancing panel which can often include conveyancing solicitors in Deeside.
This question may be naive but I am wet behind the ears as FTB of a garden flat in Deeside. Do I collect the keys to the house on the completion date from my conveyancer? If so, I will use a local conveyancing solicitor in Deeside?
On the day of completion you do not need to go to the conveyancers office in Deeside. Your solicitors will arrange to send the purchase money to the seller's solicitors, and shortly after the monies have arrived, you should be able to pick up the keys from the property Agents and start moving into the property. This tends to happen between 1 and 3pm.
We were going to get a DIP from Clydesdale this week so we can work out what to offer on a property we like as otherwise we only have online calculators to go by (which aren't taking into account credit checks etc). Do Clydesdale recommend any Deeside solicitors on the Clydesdale conveyancing panel, or is it better to go independently?
You will need to appoint Deeside solicitors independently although you'll need to choose one on the Clydesdale conveyancing panel. The solicitor represents both you and Clydesdale through the process.
I'm at the point of looking at houses in Deeside and I am about to put in an offer. Is it best to have my property lawyer on ‘stand by’? I will be getting a home loan with Nottingham.
You should start obtaining conveyancing estimates from solicitors ASAP. After you have chosen your lawyer and once your offer is accepted you can instruct them to work for you and forward their contact information on to the estate agent. As you are seeking a mortgage with Nottingham, ask your prospective lawyers if they are on the Nottingham conveyancing panel otherwise they can't do the mortgage legal work.
A colleague recommended that if I am purchasing in Deeside I should ask my conveyancer to execute a Neighbourhood, Planning and Local Amenity Search. What does it cover?
This is a search is sometimes quoted for as part of the standard Deeside conveyancing searches. It is not a small document of more than thirty pages, listing and setting out important information about Deeside around the property and the people living there. It incorporates an Aerial Photograph, Planning Applications, Land Use, Mobile Phone Masts, Rights of Way, the Deeside Housing Market, Council Tax Banding, the demographics of People living in the area, the dominant type of Housing, the Average Property Price, Crime details, Deeside Education with plans and statistics, Local Amenities and other useful information regarding Deeside.
I am looking for a ground for flat up to £235,500 and identified one round the corner in Deeside I like with a park and transport links nearby, however it's only got 51 remaining years left on the lease. There is not much else in Deeside suitable, so just wondered if I would be making a grave error purchasing a lease with such few years left?
Should you require a home loan that many years will be problematic. Reduce the offer by the anticipated lease extension will cost if it has not already been discounted. If the existing owner has owned the premises for a minimum of twenty four months you can ask them to commence the lease extension formalities and then assign it to you. An additional ninety years can be extended on to the existing lease term and have £0 ground rent by law. You should speak to your conveyancing lawyer regarding this matter.
We're FTB’s - had an offer accepted, but the selling agent has warned us that the vendor will only issue a contract if we use their recommended solicitors as they need a ‘quick sale’. We would rather use a high street solicitor with experience of conveyancing in Deeside
It is improbable the vendors are driving this. Should the seller require ‘a quick sale', turning down a serious buyer is is going to put the whole deal at risk. Speak to the vendors direct and make sure they comprehend that (a)you are keen to buy (b)you are excited to move forward, with finances in place © you are unencumbered (d) you wish to move quickly (e)but you are going to appoint your preferred Deeside conveyancing firm - rather thanthose that will give the estate agent a referral fee or hit his conveyancing thresholds set by head office.
Can you offer any advice when it comes to choosing a Deeside conveyancing practice to carry out our lease extension conveyancing?
If you are instructing a solicitor for lease extension works (regardless if they are a Deeside conveyancing firm) it is most important that they be familiar with the legislation and specialises in this area of conveyancing. We advise that you make enquires with several firms including non Deeside conveyancing practices prior to instructing a firm. Where the conveyancing practice is ALEP accredited then so much the better. The following questions could be of use:
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If they are not ALEP accredited then why not? What are the legal fees for lease extension conveyancing?
Leasehold Conveyancing in Deeside - Examples of Queries Prior to Purchasing
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What is the the remaining lease term? The best form of lease structure is a share of the freehold. In this arrangement the leaseholders enjoy control and notwithstanding that a managing agent is usually employed if the building is bigger than a house conversion, the managing agent acts for the leaseholders themselves.