My wife and I are planning to purchase a home in Dereham and are in fact using a Dereham conveyancing firm. Within the last couple of days our solicitor has forwarded the sale agreement to be signed with a detailed report in anticipation of exchanging contracts shortly. Yorkshire Building Society have this afternoon contacted us to inform me that they have now hit a problem as our Dereham solicitor is not on their approved list of lawyers. What do we do from here?
Where you are buying a property needing a mortgage it is normal for the purchasers' solicitors to also represent the mortgage company. In order to act for a bank or building society a law firm has to be on that lender's conveyancing panel. An application has to be made by the law firm to the lender to become a member of the lender's panel and there are increasingly strict criteria which the firm has to satisfy and indeed some lenders now require their panel members to be part of the Law Society’s Conveyancing Accreditation Scheme. Your solicitor should contact your bank and see if they can apply for membership of their conveyancing panel, but if that is not viable they will instruct their own lawyers to represent them. You don't have to instruct a firm on the bank's conveyancing panel as you are at liberty to use your preferred Dereham lawyers, in which case your legal fees may increase, and it may delay matters as you have another set of people involved.
Why is leasehold purchase conveyancing in Dereham is more expensive?
The conveyancing costs on a leasehold property in Dereham is inevitably greater than on a freehold residence. This is due to the supplemental work required in dealing with the freeholder and management company to collate the information concerning whether the rent and maintenance fee have been paid and whether there are any significant expenditure in the foreseeable future on repairs or maintenance of the block.
Will my conveyancing lawyers need to check that the building insurance when buying a house in Dereham. My lender is The Mortgage Works
The Mortgage Works have specific requirements as set out in the UK Finance Lenders’ Handbook. As of 11/6/2026, the requirements read as follows :
I have justbecome aware that Action Conveyancing have closed. They carried out my conveyancing in Dereham for a purchase of a leasehold flat 10 months ago. How can I be sure that the property is in my name in the name of the former proprietor?
The easiest method to see if the property is in your name, you can make a search of the land registry (£3.00). You can either do this yourself or ask a law firm to do this for you. If you are not registered you can seek help from one of a number of Dereham conveyancing specialists.
We are 18 days into a leasehold purchase having been referred to a firm by the estate agent to perform conveyancing in Dereham. I am not happy. Could you help me find new lawyers?
They would need to be very poor in order to consider diss instructing them. Has the mortgage offer been issued? In the event that it has you must make them aware of the replacement conveyancer and have the offer are re-issued. The conveyancer needs to be on the mortgage company approved list to avoid escalating expenses and delays. So that should be your first question of the new solicitors. Our search tool will help you find a lender approved solicitor for your conveyancing in Dereham
Finally our conveyancing in Dereham is set to complete next Friday, yet the owners I am buying off wishes to vacate the next day at midday. Should I accept such a plan?
If you are having a mortgage then your solicitor will require that the premises arevacant on Friday - the lender will compel it.