My family lawyer has sent a quote for £1400 for no sale no fee conveyancing in Greater Manchester. I’m looking to sell a Edwardian property for £125,000. This seems expensive. Is it above the norm for conveyancing in Greater Manchester?
The estimate does seem a tad overpriced. Where you are happy to spend time contrasting prices you might get the conveyancing a bit cheaper by say a hundred pounds. That being said, you couldlive to regret opting for an an unknown conveyancer. If is important to check the conveyancer can represent your bank. You can use our search tool to get a quote a Greater Manchester conveyancing company on the banks approved list of lawyers which can often include conveyancing solicitors in Greater Manchester.
Our son is purchasing a house that has just been built in Greater Manchester with a home loan from Kent Reliance. His conveyancer has said that there is a delay in receiving the ‘Disclosure of Incentive Form’. This document is news to me - what is it and who needs sight of it?
The document is intended to provide information to the main parties engaged in the transaction. Therefore, it will be provided to your son’s lawyer who should be on the Kent Reliance conveyancing panel as a standard part of the process, and to the surveyor when asked. The developer will be required to start the process by downloading the form and completing it. The form will therefore need to be available for the valuer at the time of his or her site visit. The form should be sent to the Kent Reliance conveyancing panel solicitor as early as possible, in order to avoid any last minute delays, and no later than at exchange of contracts.
Does a directory service exist listing Aldermore panel solicitors in Greater Manchester on the Council of Mortgage Lender’s Website?
Unfortunately not yet. There is no such facility on the Council of Mortgage Lenders or Building Society Association sites. Very few lenders make their panel listings viewable on the web. Where you are looking for a Greater Manchester lawyer on the Aldermore please use our tool.
Is it the case that all Greater Manchester conveyancing solicitors on the Virgin Money conveyancing panel are overseen by the SRA?
As a firm of solicitors, in order to be on the Virgin Money approved list of solicitors they would need to be overseen by the SRA. The majority of banks do list licenced conveyancers on their panel and in that case the organisation would be overseen by the Council of Licensed Conveyancers.
I have paid off my mortgage with RBS. I assume I don't need a Greater Manchester solicitor on the RBS panel to discharge the mortgage at the Land Registry. Please confirm.
If you have finished paying off your RBS 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 RBS mortgage from the register. RBS, 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 RBS has sent the Land Registry the discharge electronically, and
- RBS has instructed the Land Registry to do so
We are buying a house and the conveyancer has referenced Chancel Repair for which the house could be liable given it’s proximity to the area of such a church. She has recommended insurance. Is this strictly necessary for conveyancing in Greater Manchester
Unless a prior purchase of the property completed post 12 October 2013 you could expect solicitors conducting conveyancing in Greater Manchester to remain recommending a chancel search and or chancel repair liability policy.
How easy is it to transfer to a new firm as I need to instruct a firm on the Alliance & Leicester conveyancing list. I hired a family conveyancing solicitor in Greater Manchester five minutes from me but the firm is not approved by Alliance & Leicester
It would be our pleasure to assist you select a conveyancing solicitor in Greater Manchester on the Alliance & Leicester panel. Please note that the conveyancers that we on the directory do not pay us commission if you instruct them and are registered with the Solicitors Regulation Authority who oversee all conveyancing solicitors in Greater Manchester. In utilising search facility on this page, you can compare charges for conveyancing solicitors in Greater Manchester and throughout England and Wales.
20 days into a sale of a flat in Greater Manchester. Conveyancing solicitors are doing their job but we have been asked to pay a fortune by the managing agents. To date we have paid £237 for a leasehold management pack and then a further £200 plus VAT for responses to queries raised by the buyers lawyer.
You will not have control over the extent of the charges for this information however the typical costs for the information for Greater Manchester leasehold property is £350. For Greater Manchester conveyancing transactions it is standard for the vendor to cover the charges. The landlord or their agents are not duty bound to address these questions most will be content to do so - albeit often at high prices where the fees bear little relation to the work involved. Regretfully there is no statute that mandates set charges for administrative tasks. Neither is there any set time limit by which they are required to provide the information.