I am told that my conveyancing solicitors will need to check that the building insurance for my purchase of a house in Great Barford. My lender is Virgin
Virgin have specific requirements as set out in the UK Finance Lenders’ Handbook. As of 8/10/2026, the requirements read as follows :
I am helping my step-mother sell her house in Great Barford. Will the conveyancer order an EPC or should I organise this?
Following the abolition of Home Information Packs, EPC’s became a compulsory element of selling a property. An energy performance certificate needs to be to hand before the property is put on the market. This is not something that lawyers normally organise. If you are using a Great Barford conveyancing lawyer they may help arrange energy performance certificates due to their contacts with reputable Great Barford assessors
I am the only recipient of my late mum's will and I have everything in my name now, including the house in Great Barford. Conveyancing formalities meant that the Land Registry date was in September. I now wish to sell up. I understand that there is a CML 6 month 'rule', which means that my proprietorship may be treated the same way as though I had purchased the property in September. Do I have to wait half a year to sell?
The CML handbook mandates solicitors to: "report to us immediately if the owner or registered proprietor has been registered for less than six months." Technically you could be caught by that. How practical a view banks take of it, depend on the lender as this obligation principally exists to capture subsales or the quick reselling of properties.
I recently had an offer accepted on an apartment in Great Barford. My financial adviser recommended their conveyancers. I paid an on account payment of £225. A few days later, the lawyer called me embarrassingly acknowledging that they were not on the HSBC conveyancing panel. Am I right in thinking that I should be due a refund?
You should be able to recover this from the law firm if they were not on the HSBC panel. They should have asked at the outset which lender you were obtaining a mortgage with. An important lesson to readers of this site is to check that the lawyers are on the appropriate lender panel.
I have recentlyfound out that Action Conveyancing have closed. They conducted my conveyancing in Great Barford for a purchase of a leasehold apartment 12 months ago. How can I be sure that the property is in my name in the name of the previous owner?
The quickest method to check if the premises 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 Great Barford conveyancing specialists.
I'm purchasing a new build house in Great Barford with a mortgage from Halifax. The sellers would not reduce the price so I negotiated £7000 of extras instead. The property agent suggested that I not inform my solicitor about this side-deal as it could jeopardize my loan with Halifax. Is this normal?.
All lenders require a Disclosure of Incentives Form from the developer of any new build, converted or renovated property, It is available online from the Lenders’ Handbook page on the UK Finance website. UK Finance form is completed and handed to the lender's surveyor when the inspection is done.
Lenders have different policies on incentives. Some accept none at all, cash or physical, while others will accept cash incentives up to 5%.
Hard to understand why the representative of a builder would be suggesting you withold information from a solicitor when all this will be clearly visible on forms the builder has to supply to its solicitor, the buyer's solicitor and the surveyor.
Is it possible to change firm as I have to appoint one who is on the Nottingham Building Society conveyancing list. I hired a family conveyancing solicitor in Great Barford round the corner but the firm is not approved by Nottingham Building Society
It would be our pleasure to assist you select a conveyancing solicitor in Great Barford on the Nottingham 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 regulated by the SRA who oversee all conveyancing solicitors in Great Barford. Using the find a conveyancing solicitor tool on this page, you can compare and instruct different solicitors and conveyancers both nationally and in Great Barford.
I am unable to travel my Great Barford conveyancing practitioners office to sign documents connected to my conveyancing in Great Barford – is this a problem?
You need not be concerned. Great Barford conveyancing lawyers can deal with conveyancing transactions for clients across the country. It is not necessary for you to be able to meet your lawyer in the flesh at a Great Barford conveyancers office. They can handle everything via phone, post and email - whatever works for you.