We were just about to exchange contracts for a ground floor flat in East Twickenham. We encountered a stumbling block. The mortgage offer with Platform Home Loans Ltd runs out on 9/7/2025 but the owners are suggesting a completion date of 11/7/2025. Can one extend the mortgage offer?
The person best placed to deal with your concern is your solicitors who will hopefully determine if he or she is better off negotiating with the mortgage company, vendor’s representatives, estate agents or indeed all parties given what has gone on in your transaction to date.
Can I use your services to recommend a Conveyancing solicitor in East Twickenham even where I’m not buying or disposing of a house, for example where I wish to buy an office in East Twickenham with a loan from Godiva Mortgages Ltd?
Our comparison service is primarily used to select residential conveyancing solicitors in East Twickenham but we have recorded at the bottom of this page some East Twickenham commercial conveyancing firms. You will need to make contact with the solicitors directly to establish if they can also act for Godiva Mortgages Ltd
My property lawyer in East Twickenham has never been on on the Chelsea Building Society Approved Panel. Is it possible for me to use my family solicitor even though they are not on the Chelsea Building Society panel?
Your options are as follows:
- Carry on with your existing East Twickenham lawyers but Chelsea Building Society will need to instruct a conveyancer on their panel. This will inevitably rack up the overall legal charges and cause delays.
- Find an alternative practitioner to to deal with the conveyancing, remembering to check they are on the Chelsea Building Society panel
I have justbecome aware that Action Conveyancing have been shut down. They carried out my conveyancing in East Twickenham for a purchase of a leasehold flat 10 months ago. How can I be sure that the property is not still registered in the name of the previous owner?
The quickest way 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 East Twickenham conveyancing specialists.
Yesterday I discovered that there is a flying freehold issue on a property I put an offer in a fortnight ago in what was supposed to be a simple, no chain conveyancing. East Twickenham is where the house is located. Can you shed any light on this issue?
Flying freeholds in East Twickenham are unusual but are more likely to exist in relation to terraced houses. Even where you use a solicitor outside East Twickenham you would need to get your solicitor to go through the deeds very carefully. Your mortgage company may require your conveyancing solicitor to take out an indemnity policy. Some of the more diligent conveyancing solicitors in East Twickenham may ascertain that this is not enough and that the deeds be re-written to give you the most up to date legal protection. If so, the next door neighbour also had to sign up to the revised deeds.It is possible that your lender will not accept the situation so the sooner you find out the better. You should also check with your insurance broker as to whether they will insure a flying freehold premises.
I am looking into buying my first house which is in East Twickenham and I am already nervous. I couldn't find anything specific about East Twickenham. Conveyancing will be needed in due course but do you know about the East Twickenham area? or perhaps some other tips you can share?
Rather than looking online forget looking online you should go and have a look at East Twickenham. In the meantime here are some basic statistics that we found