I am helping my sister sell her house in Gerrards Cross. Will the conveyancer order the energy performance certificate or do I organise this?
After the demise of Home Information Packs, energy performance certificates remained a compulsory component of moving property. An energy assessment must be commissioned prior to the property being advertised. This is not something that law firms normally arrange. If you are instructing a Gerrards Cross conveyancing solicitor they might be willing to arrange energy performance certificates due to their contacts with reputable Gerrards Cross energy assessors
My bid for a property was accepted at auction in Gerrards Cross. Conveyancing is necessary. What happens now?
Having for all intents and purposes signed on the dotted line you should find a conveyancing solicitor quickly as you are facing a pending a fixed date to complete the purchase. An auction property will ordinarily have an associated legal pack. This will likely include the copy title deeds, local authority and drainage searches. Where you are dealing with leasehold premises the auction papers should provide a copy of the lease, management information and a sellers leasehold information form and associated conveyancing documentation specific to a leasehold property. You need to hand this to your appointed conveyancing solicitor as soon as possible. You also need to ensure that you have funds in order to complete on the on the contractual date .
I am currently in the process of buying my council flat in Gerrards Cross. I have a mortgage agreed with Virgin Money. Conveyancing is new to me. Can I proceed without a solicitor easily? I think we can but we keep being told I should have one. Any advice?
It is not advisable to proceed with a house purchase without a solicitor. The council's solicitor are not acting for you. You need a solicitor for a number reasons. One of which is to verify what plans the Council have for repairs and refurbishment for the next five years. Many leaseholders have been stung for contributions of thousands of pounds. In any event, if you are getting a mortgage with Virgin Money, you will need to appoint a solicitor on the Virgin Money conveyancing panel.
Over the last few months I have been searching for a flat up to £245,000 and found one round the corner in Gerrards Cross I like with amenity areas and railway links nearby, however it's only got 61 years on the lease. There is not much else in Gerrards Cross suitable, so just wondered if I would be making a mistake purchasing a lease with such few years left?
If you need a home loan the shortness of the lease will be a potential deal breaker. Reduce the offer by the amount the lease extension will cost if not already taken into account. If the existing owner has owned the property for at least 2 years you could request that they commence the lease extension formalities and then assign it to you. An additional ninety years can be extended on to the existing lease and have £0 ground rent by law. You should speak to your conveyancing solicitor concerning this.
Is it possible to change conveyancer as I have to find a firm on the Platform Home Loans Ltd conveyancing list. I was using a local conveyancing solicitor in Gerrards Cross round the corner but he is not approved by Platform Home Loans Ltd
We will our best to assist in finding you a conveyancing solicitor in Gerrards Cross on the Platform Home Loans Ltd panel. Please note that the property lawyers that we work with do not pay us commission if you instruct them and are under regulation of the Solicitors Regulation Authority who regulate all conveyancing solicitors in Gerrards Cross. In utilising the find a conveyancing solicitor tool on this site, you can scrutinise fees for conveyancing solicitors in Gerrards Cross and throughout England and Wales.
We're novice buyers - agreed a price, yet the selling agent told us that the owners will only move forward if we use their recommended solicitors as they are insisting on an ‘expedited deal’. We would rather use a high street conveyancer who is accustomed to conveyancing in Gerrards Cross
We suspect that the seller is not behind this ultimatum. If they desire ‘a quick sale', turning down a genuine purchaser is going to damage their objectives. Contact the sellers directly and explain that (a)you are keen to buy (b)you are excited to move forward, with mortgage lined up © you are unencumbered (d) you intend to proceed fast (e)however you are going to appoint your preferred Gerrards Cross conveyancing lawyers - rather thanthe ones that will provide their negotiator at the agency a kickback or hit his conveyancing targets demanded by corporate headquarters.
My wife and I may need to sub-let our Gerrards Cross ground floor flat for a while due to taking a sabbatical. We instructed a Gerrards Cross conveyancing practice in 2003 but they have since shut and we did not think at the time get any guidance as to whether the lease permits subletting. How do we find out?
Even though your last Gerrards Cross conveyancing solicitor is no longer around you can review your lease to check if you are permitted to let out the apartment. The rule is that if the deeds are silent, subletting is permitted. There may be a precondition that you are obliged to seek permission via your landlord or other appropriate person prior to subletting. This means you not allowed to sublet in the absence of prior consent. The consent should not be unreasonably refused ore delayed. If the lease prohibits you from subletting the property you should ask your landlord for their consent.
Having spent months of negotiations we are unable to agree with our landlord on how much the lease extension should cost for our flat in Gerrards Cross. Does the Leasehold Valuation Tribunal have jurisdiction to calculate the appropriate figures?
Most certainly. We are happy to put you in touch with a Gerrards Cross conveyancing firm who can help.
An example of a Lease Extension matter before the tribunal for a Gerrards Cross flat is Flats 8, 11 and 15 Craigmore Court 46 Murray Road in December 2013. The tribunal held that the price payable by the Applicant tenant of Flat 8 to acquire an extended lease shall be £26,438 plus £1 to the intermediate lessee . The tribunal held that the price payable by the Applicant tenants of Flat 11 to acquire an extended lease shall be £26,791 plus £1 to the intermediate lessee. The tribunal held that the price payable by the Applicant tenant of Flat 15 to acquire an extended lease shall be £26,638 plus £1 to the intermediate lessee . This case related to 3 flats. The unexpired term was 71 years.
We are about to purchasing a property in Gerrards Cross. Conveyancing is not complete but we wish to have our purchase price confidential from sites such as Rightmove. Is this achievable and how?
HM Land Registry are legally required to reveal price sold information on a register of the title for residential properties countrywide including homes in Gerrards Cross. The register of title is an open document, so the Land Registry would be breaking the law excluded specific properties such as the one in Gerrards Cross.
In essence you can make a request of HMLR to hide the amount paid data but the answer would be in the negative.