Having been recommended your web site we were about to use a conveyancing solicitor in Dunston listed on your site but stumbled across some other quotes via the web look cheaper – why is this?
There are plenty of solicitors marketing at first sight what seems to be very low prices. We suggest that you think long and hard as to how much you respect your own move to want to take 'cheap' risks with regard to the quality of the conveyancing. Many of them highlight a low fee to tempt you but hide extra fees in the small print..
My husband and I are purchasing a new build apartment in Dunston and my conveyancer is informing me that she is duty bound to the lender to reveal incentives from the builder. I am on a tight deadline to exchange and I don't want to delay deal. Is my lawyer right?
You should not exchange unless you have been advised to do so by your conveyancing practitioner. A precondition to being on a mortgage company panel is to comply with the UK Finance Lenders’ Handbook requirements. The CML Conveyancing Handbook requires that your lawyer have the appropriate Disclosure of Incentive form completed by the developer and accepted by your lender.
We see that you have a post code search directory listing solicitors on the Yorkshire BS conveyancing panel. Do companies pay you a commission if I instruct them for our own conveyancing in Dunston?
We are a listing service only for law firms wishing to communicate if they are on the Yorkshire BS conveyancing panel or other lender panels. We do not charge referral fees to any conveyancer that you subsequently appoint for your conveyancing in Dunston.
My flat in Dunston is up for sale and I have a buyer. Does the conveyancing practitioner need to be on the Nottingham conveyancing panel in order to deal with paying off my mortgage?
Ordinarily, even if your lawyer is not on the Nottingham conveyancing panel they can still act for you on your sale. It might be that the lender will not release the original deeds (if applicable and increasingly irrelevant) until after the mortgage is paid off. You should speak to your lawyer directly before you start the process though to ensure that there is no problem as lenders are changing their conditions fairly frequently in recent years.
I used Action Conveyancing several years past for my conveyancing in Dunston. Now, I need my files but cannot find the solicitor. What do I do?
Do contact the Solicitors Regulatory Authority (SRA) to assist in tracking down 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 Dunston 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 have just appointed agents to market my garden flat in Dunston. Conveyancing lawyers have not yet been instructed, however I have just received a yearly maintenance charge demand – Do I pay up?
The sensible thing to do is clear the service charge as usual because all ground rent and maintenance charges should be apportioned on completion, so you should recover the relevant percentage by the buyer for the period running from after the completion date to the subsequent invoice date. Most management companies will not acknowledge the buyer until the service charges have been paid and are up to date, so it is important for both buyer and seller for the seller to show that they are up to date. This will smooth the conveyancing process.
Leasehold Conveyancing in Dunston - A selection of Questions you should consider before buying
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Who are the managing agents? What is the yearly service fee and ground rent? Best to be warned whether changing the roof or some other significant cost is anticipated to be shared by the leasehold owners and could well dramatically impact the level of the maintenance fees or necessitate a specific payment.