The conveyancer who assisted with my previous purchase has given a fee estimate £1700 for no sale no fee conveyancing in Freshwater. I am selling a Edwardian house for £225,000. This seems over the top. Is it above what I should be paying for conveyancing in Freshwater?
The costs illustration is slightly on the steep side. If you shop around you could trim some of the expense by perhaps a hundred pounds. On the other hand, you couldcome to regret choosing an an unknown lawyer. If is important to check the solicitor can act for your lender. You can employ our search tool to get a quote a Freshwater conveyancing firm on the lender’s conveyancing panel which can often include conveyancing solicitors in Freshwater.
Completed the sale of my flat in Freshwater last March but the buyer keeps calling me to say their lawyer is waiting to hear from mine. What should my lawyer have done following completion?
Post completion of your house sale your conveyancer is obliged to deliver the transfer documentation and all supplemental paperwork to the purchaser's lawyers. If applicable, your conveyancer must also send confirmation that the legal charge in favour of the lender has been redeemed to the purchasers conveyancers. There is unlikely to be post completion procedures just for conveyancing in Freshwater.
My colleague advised me that where I am buying in Freshwater I should ask my conveyancer to perform a Neighbourhood, Planning and Local Amenity Search. What does it cover?
A search of this type is occasionally included in the estimate for your Freshwater conveyancing searches. It is a large report of more than thirty pages, listing and detailing significant information about Freshwater around the property and the people living there. It incorporates an Aerial Photograph, Planning Applications, Land Use, Mobile Phone Masts, Rights of Way, the Freshwater Housing Market, Council Tax Banding, the type of People living in the area, the dominant type of Housing, the Average House Prices, Crime statistics, Local Education with maps and statistics, Local Amenities and other useful information regarding Freshwater.
I was advised by a number of selling agents in Freshwater to find a solicitor using your seach tool. Is there a financial incentive for Estate Agents to offer your site ahead of a competitor’s?
We don’t give any referral fee for pointing buyers and sellers to this site. We thought it would be too underhand a fee because home movers will think, ‘How come the agent getting a kickback? Why am I not receiving any benefit too?’ We would prefer to grow our business on genuine recommendations.
Is it best to use a Freshwater conveyancing lawyer based in the area that I am buying? An old friend can handle the conveyancing but her office is approximately 350miles drive away.
The primary upside of using a local Freshwater conveyancing practice is that you can visit the firm to sign paperwork, deliver your ID and apply pressure on them where appropriate. Having local Freshwater know how is a plus. However nothing is more important than finding someone that will pull out all the stops for you. If you know people who instructed your friend and in the main were happy that should outweigh using an unfamiliar Freshwater conveyancing solicitor just because they are Freshwater based.
My wife and I may need to let out our Freshwater basement flat temporarily due to a career opportunity. We used a Freshwater conveyancing practice in 2001 but they have since shut and we did not have the foresight to get any advice as to whether the lease allows us to sublet. How do we find out?
Your lease governs relations between the freeholder and you the flat owner; in particular, it will set out if subletting is prohibited, or permitted but only subject to certain conditions. The rule is that if the lease contains no specific ban or restriction, subletting is permitted. Most leases in Freshwater do not prevent subletting altogether – such a provision would adversely affect the market value the flat. In most cases there is a basic requirement that the owner notifies the freeholder, possibly supplying a duplicate of the sublease.
Freshwater Leasehold Conveyancing - Sample of Queries Prior to buying
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It is important to be aware if a new roof is being put on or some other major work is due shortly to be shared by the leasehold owners and will materially increase the the service fees or result in a specific invoice. Are there any major works in the near future that will add a premium to the maintenance costs? Does the lease have more than 82 years remaining?