We are about to sign contracts for a freehold house in Elm Park. We encountered a snag. Our mortgage offer with Nottingham Building Society expires on 3/7/2025 but the owners are suggesting a completion date of 7/7/2025. Can one prolong the mortgage offer?
The best person to deal with your question is your solicitors who will assess if they corresponding with the mortgage broker, owner’s lawyers, estate agents or indeed all three given what has gone on in your house move to date.
Can I use your services to locate a Conveyancing solicitor in Elm Park even where I’m not purchasing or disposing of a house, for instance where I intend to acquire an office in Elm Park with a loan from Bank of Scotland?
Our comparison service is predominantly used to find domestic conveyancing solicitors in Elm Park but we have set out at the bottom of this page a few Elm Park commercial conveyancing firms. You will need to speak with the firm directly to establish if they can also act for Bank of Scotland
What is the difference between a licensed conveyancer and conveyancing solicitor in Elm Park
There are two types of lawyers who can conduct conveyancing in Elm Park namely CLC regulated conveyancers or solicitors. The two can provide the legal services that required to complete the sale or purchase of property. They are both required to handle Elm Park conveyancing to the same standards and guidelines so you can be sure that your conveyancing will be properly carried out and that the necessary steps should be accurately followed.
I have paid off my mortgage with Clydesdale. I assume I don't need a Elm Park property lawyer on the Clydesdale panel to remove the mortgage at the Land Registry. Am I right?
If you have finished paying off your Clydesdale mortgage, they may send you evidence showing that you have paid it off. Alternatively they may notify the Land Registry directly. The Land Registry need to see this evidence before they will remove the Clydesdale mortgage from the register. Clydesdale, and any evidence they send you, will determine the action you need to take. In cases where no conveyancer is acting for you and you have paid off your mortgage:
- but are not moving to another property
- where Clydesdale has sent the Land Registry the discharge electronically, and
- Clydesdale has instructed the Land Registry to do so
Leeds Building Society have agreed my mortgage in principle, my bid on a house in Elm Park has been agreed to, now what?
The property agent will wish to know who your solicitors are (make sure the solicitors are on the bank’s approved list). Call up Leeds Building Society or the financial adviser and complete any relevant documentation. Leeds Building Society will sellect a valuer who will get in contact with the estate agent or owners to arrange a slot for the valuation to occur. Once conducted (assuming no problems) it takes on average ten days for the mortgage offer to be issued. Leeds Building Society will issue the offer to you and your lawyers. The transaction will then take it’s course according the nature and complexity of the conveyancing in Elm Park.
Do commercial conveyancing searches disclose proposed roadworks that could impact a commercial site in Elm Park?
Many commercial conveyancing solicitors in Elm Park will execute a SiteSolutions Highways report as it dramatically cuts the time that conveyancers invest in investigating accurate data on highways that impact buildings and development assets in Elm Park. The report sets out definitive information on the adoption status of roads, footpaths and verges, as well as the implication of traffic schemes and the rights of way surrounding a commercial development sites in Elm Park.
For each commercial conveyancing transaction in Elm Park it is critical to investigate the adoption status of roads surrounding a site. The absence of identifying developments where adoption procedures have not been dealt with adequately can result in delays to Elm Park commercial conveyancing transactions as well as present a risk to future plans for the site. These searches are not ordered for domestic conveyancing in Elm Park.
How simple is it to swap firm as I need to select a firm on the Barnsley Building Society conveyancing list. I instructed a high street conveyancing solicitor in Elm Park five minutes from me but she is not approved by Barnsley Building Society
It would be our pleasure to help you select a conveyancing solicitor in Elm Park on the Barnsley Building Society panel. Please note that the conveyancers that we on the directory do not pay us a referral fee if you instruct them and are authorised and regulated by the SRA who oversee all conveyancing solicitors in Elm Park. In utilising the find a conveyancing solicitor tool on this website, you can compare costs for conveyancing solicitors in Elm Park and beyond.
We're first time buyers - agreed a price, but the selling agent has warned us that the seller will only proceed if we instruct the agent's recommended conveyancers as they are insisting on a ‘quick sale’. We would rather use a high street conveyancer used to conveyancing in Elm Park
It is highly unlikely the sellers are driving this. Should the vendor desire ‘a quick sale', turning down a motivated purchaser is not the way to achieve this. Try to communicate with the owners directly and make sure they comprehend that (a)you are genuine purchasers (b)you are ready to go, with finances arranged © you have nothing to sell (d) you wish to move quickly (e)however you are going to instruct your preferred Elm Park conveyancing lawyers - rather thanthose that will provide their estate agent a introducer fee or meet his conveyancing thresholds pre-set by head office.