We are about to exchange contracts for a ground floor flat in Forest Hill. We have hit a stumbling block. The mortgage offer with Coventry Building Society expires on 22/4/2025 but the owners are putting forward a completion date of 24/4/2025. Is it possible to extend the loan offer?
The best person to deal with your concern is your lawyer who will determine whether he or she is corresponding with the mortgage company, owner’s conveyancers, estate agents or conceivably all three given what has gone on in your house move as of today.
Why do I have to pay up front for my conveyancing in Forest Hill?
Where you are retaining lawyers for conveyancing in Forest Hill your lawyer will request that you put them with funds to cover the the cost of the conveyancing searches. This will be the total of the cost of the Local Authority Search. If any down payment is as part of the sale price then this should be asked for immediately prior to contracts are exchanged. The closing balance that is needed will be payable a few days ahead of the day of completion.
What is the optimum way to discover of the solicitor carrying out my conveyancing in Forest Hill is on the bank’sconveyancing panel? I am looking to avoid the situation of having one lawyer for me and one for Santander thus paying £192.00 in another set of legal charges.
Please do take advantage of the find a conveyancing panel solicitor tool on this page. Pick the mortgage company and type ‘Forest Hill’ or your location and you will discover numerous solicitors offices in Forest Hill or by proximity to you.
A friend advised me that in buying a property in Forest Hill there may be a number of restrictions preventing external changes to the property. Is this right?
There are anumerous of properties in Forest Hill which have some sort of restriction or requirement of consent to carry out external alterations. Part of the conveyancing in Forest Hill should determine what restrictions are applicable and advising you as part of a ROT that should be sent to you.
I am buying a property in Forest Hill. A rare aspect is that the roof has a solar panel. Solicitors conducting should look into this right? Will my lender Clydesdale be concerned?
As your lender is Clydesdale your lawyer must comply with the conveyancing requirements set out in Section 2 of UK Finance Lenders’ Handbook for Clydesdale. The Council of Mortgage Lenders’ Handbook includes minimum provisions for solar panel roof-space leases, and solicitors are required to report to Clydesdale where a lease does not satisfy these conditions. The requirements relate to the installation of panels on properties nationwide and is not isolated to Forest Hill.
Our sealed bid on a detached house in Forest Hill has been agreed to, but there is a chain. The sellers have offered on on an apartment, but it’s not been accepted yet, and have viewings of other properties booked. I have chosen a high street conveyancing solicitor in Forest Hill. What should be my next step? At what stage should I apply for the mortgage with Yorkshire BS?
It is normal to have concerns where there is a chain as you are unlikely to want to incur costs too early (mortgage application is in the region of one thousand pounds, then survey, Forest Hill conveyancing search charges, etc). The first thing to do is check that your property lawyer is on the Yorkshire BS conveyancing panel. Regarding the subsequent stages this very much depends on the uniqueness of your case, motivation for this property and on the state of the market. During a rising market many purchasers would apply for a home loan with Yorkshire BS and pay for the valuation and only if it comes back ok would they pay their property lawyer to move forward with searches.
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I have just appointed agents to market my ground floor flat in Forest Hill. Conveyancing has not commenced, but I have recently received a quarterly maintenance charge demand – what should I do?
Your conveyancing lawyer is likely to suggest that you should pay the invoice as normal given that all rents and maintenance payments will be allotted as part of the financial calculations for completion monies, so you should recover the relevant percentage by the purchaser for the period running from after the completion date to the subsequent invoice date. Most managing agents will not acknowledge the buyer unless 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.
After years of dialogue we are unable to agree with our landlord on how much the lease extension should cost for our flat in Forest Hill. Can we issue an application to the Residential Property Tribunal Service?
Where there is a absentee landlord or where there is dispute about the premium for a lease extension, under the relevant statutes you can apply to the Leasehold Valuation Tribunal to make a decision on the price.
An example of a Lease Extension matter before the tribunal for a Forest Hill premises is Flat 1 40-42 Ewelme Road in August 2012. the Tribunal assessed the premium for the lease extension in the sum of £11,800 This case was in relation to 1 flat. The unexpired term as at the valuation date was 61.81 years.