What is the best way to search for the right solicitor to provide a quality service for my conveyancing in East Dean?
Option 1 is to ask connections who they used in the past and if they were happy with the service.
Second, look on the internet for conveyancing in East Dean. Phone a couple or more firms listed and ask them to email you their conveyancing fees and discuss your needs with the solicitor who will oversee your conveyancing ahead ofmaking your decision.
Third is to use this site to assist you in finding the right solicitors for you based on your personal requirements including the type of property,deadlines, complexity and who your intended lender is. Resist the temptation to go for low cost conveyancing in East Dean
Completed the sale of my flat in East Dean last March yet the purchaser is calling daily to moan that his conveyancer is waiting to hear from myconveyancer. What are the post completion sale legalities now that I have sold?
Following your sale your conveyancer should forward the transfer documentation and all of the paperwork to the purchaser's solicitors. Where relevant, your conveyancer must also evidence that the mortgage has been paid off to the buyers lawyers. There is unlikely to be post completion tasks just for conveyancing in East Dean.
My grandfather passed away 10 months ago and as sole heir and executor I was left the property in East Dean. The house had a relatively small loan remaining of approximately £5k. I want to transfer the title deeds into my name whilst I re-mortgage to Coventry BS, pay off the mortgage. Is this possible?
Where you intend to refinance then Coventry BS will insist on your using a conveyancer on the Coventry BS conveyancing panel. Here is link to the Land Registry online guidance around what to do when a property owner dies. This will help you to understand the registration process behind changing the details re the registered title. in your case it would appear that you are effectively purchasing the property from the estate. Your Coventry BS conveyancing panel solicitor pays the new mortgage money into the estate, the estate pays off the old mortgage, the charge is released and you become the owner and the Coventry BS mortgage is registered as a charge at the Land Registry.
Are there restrictive covenants that are commonly identified as part of conveyancing in East Dean?
Restrictive covenants can be picked up when reviewing land registry title as part of the legal transfer of property in East Dean. An 1874 stipulation that was seen was ‘The houses to be erected on the estate are each to be of a uniform elevation in accordance with the drawings to be prepared or approved by the vendor’s surveyor…’
About to purchase a new build apartment in East Dean. Conveyancing is necessary evil at the best of times but I have never purchased a new build flat before. Can you give me some examples of some of the questions asked in new build legal work.
Here is a sample of a few leasehold new build questions that you can expect your new-build leasehold conveyancing in East Dean
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Forfeiture - bankruptcy or liquidation must not apply under this provision. Please supply a car parking plan. Investor purchasers must be able to freely grant unsecured tenancies at market rents without requiring any consents. Will the freehold then be transferred for a nominal consideration (not exceeding £100) to the Management Company?
I am employed by a long established estate agent office in East Dean where we have experienced a few flat sales jeopardised due to short leases. I have been given inconsistent advice from local East Dean conveyancing solicitors. Can you shed some light as to whether the seller of a flat can start the lease extension process for the purchaser on completion of the sale?
As long as the seller has owned the lease for at least 2 years it is possible, to serve a Section 42 notice to start the lease extension process and assign the benefit of the notice to the purchaser. The benefit of this is that the proposed purchaser need not have to sit tight for 2 years for a lease extension. Both sets of lawyers will agree to form of assignment. The assignment has to be done prior to, or simultaneously with completion of the disposal of the property.
An alternative approach is to agree the lease extension with the freeholder either before or after the sale. If you are informally negotiating there are no rules and so you cannot insist on the landlord agreeing to grant an extension or transferring the benefit of an agreement to the purchaser.
East Dean Conveyancing for Leasehold Flats - Sample of Queries before Purchasing
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Are any of leasehold owners in arrears of their service charge payments? Is the freehold owned collectively by the tenants? Please note if it is no more than eighty years it will impact the value of the apartment. It is worth checking with your lender that they are content with residual term of the lease. A short lease means that you will almost definitely need a lease extension at some point and you need to have some idea of how much this would cost. Remember, in most cases you would be be obliged to have owned the residence for two years before you are eligible to exercise a lease extension.