My bank has suggested a law firm on their panel based in Durham but I would rather choose a conveyancing lawyer in Durham or nearer to where I live. Can you assist?
Far from all Durham conveyancing practitioners are approved and listed on all banks conveyancing panel. Use our find an approved solicitor tool to choose a Durham conveyancing firm on the on the mortgage company panel.
Me and my partner are buying a apartment in Durham. It might be a silly question but how we can trust a lawyer? On completion day we will need to put money into their account. What protection do we have from them run away with our monies?
Be assured that all money in a Solicitors client account is 100% safe, and even if your Solicitor ran off with it, the Law Society would reimburse you fully.
I am assisting my sister sell her house in Durham. Does the conveyancer order an EPC or do I organise this?
After the abolition of Home Information Packs, energy performance certificates remained a required component of moving house. An EPC needs to be to hand before the property is marketed. This is not something that law firms ordinarily organise. If you are using a Durham conveyancing practitioner they may help arrange energy assessments given their contacts with reputable local providers
My bid for a property was accepted at auction in Durham. Conveyancing is needed. What are my next steps?
Given that you have now legally bound yourself to purchase you should hire the services of a conveyancing lawyer quickly as you are facing a tight a drop dead date to complete the purchase. An auction property will ordinarily have a bespoke auction pack. This will likely include most,if not all of the documents that your lawyer requires. Where you are dealing with leasehold premises the conveyancing papers may contain a copy of the lease, management information and a sellers leasehold information form and other conveyancing paperwork pertinent to leasehold premises. You should pass this on to the conveyancer working for you as soon as possible. Do make sure that that you have the requisite funding organised to complete on the on the contractual date .
I own a 4 bedroom Victorian property in Durham. Conveyancing solicitor represented me and Barclays Direct. I happened to do a free search for it on the Land Registry database and there are a couple of entries: one for freehold, the second leasehold with the exact same address. I thought I was buying a freehold how can I check?
You need to 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 proprietor of the leasehold and freehold title as well is to check (£3). It is not completely unheard of in Durham and other locations in 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 lenders. You can also question the position with your conveyancing practitioner who conducted the work.
I am purchasing a new build house in Durham with the aid of help to buy. The builders would not move on the amount so I negotiated 6k of additionals instead. The property agent told me not to tell my conveyancer about this side-deal as it may impact my loan with the lender. Do I keep my lawyer in the dark?.
All lenders require a Disclosure of Incentives Form from the builder of any new build, converted or renovated property, It is available online from the Lenders’ Handbook page on the CML website. CML form is completed and handed to the lender's surveyor when the inspection is done.
Lenders have different policies on incentives. Some accept none at all, cash or physical, while others will accept cash incentives up to 5%.
Hard to understand why the representative of a builder would be suggesting you withold information from a solicitor when all this will be clearly visible on forms the builder has to supply to its solicitor, the buyer's solicitor and the surveyor.
My business partner and I are looking to take an assignment of a lease of an office on the high street. Can you recommend lawyers offering fixed costs for non-domestic conveyancing in Durham for under 1500k?
We can recommend firms who have specialist knowledge of commercial conveyancing in Durham, including the sale and acquisition of businesses as well as simply premises. If you are intending to acquire or lease a shop, pub, restaurant, office, retail unit or a whole business we can find you the right lawyer. As for the charges these will vary based on the structure and heads of terms of the deal. Let us have your details or telephone so as to enable us to supply you with comprehensive commercial conveyancing quote.
Am I better off to appoint a Durham conveyancing solicitor who is local to the property I am buying? I have an old university friend who can deal with the conveyancing but his firm is located 200kilometers drive away.
The benefit of a high street Durham conveyancing firm is that you can pop in to execute documents, present your identification documents and apply pressure on them where appropriate. Having local Durham know how is a bonus. That being said nothing is more important than finding someone that will pull out all the stops for you. If if people you trust used your friend and they were content that must trump using an unknown Durham conveyancing lawyer just because they are based in the area.