Having sold my house in Grenoside last November yet the purchaser is whats apping every few hours to say her solicitor needs to hear from mylawyer. What should have happened now that I have sold?
Following your house sale your lawyer should send the transfer documentation and all of the paperwork to the buyer’s conveyancer. Where relevant, your conveyancer should also evidence that the legal charge in favour of the lender has been repaid to the purchasers solicitors. There are no post completion procedures peculiar conveyancing in Grenoside.
I am thinking of mortgaging my apartment in Grenoside, does my lawyer have to be on the Nottingham Solicitor panel?
In theory, you could use a solicitor that is not on the Nottingham conveyancing panel, but Nottingham would require one of their panel solicitors to be instructed to act in their interests, and you'd have to pay for this - so most people instruct a panel solicitor. It's also easier, as otherwise you'd have to deal with two solicitors for the same transaction.
I used Wolstenholmes several years ago for my conveyancing in Grenoside. I now require my papers however cannot find the solicitor. What do I do?
Do contact the Solicitors Regulatory Authority (SRA) to assist in tracking down your conveyancing files. They can be contacted on please contact on 0870 606 2555. Alternatively, you should use their online form to make an enquiry. You will need to provide the SRA with as much information as possible to assist their search, including the name and address in Grenoside of the conveyancing firm of solicitors you previously instructed, the name of conveyancing solicitor with whom you had dealings, and the date on which you last had dealings with the firm.
Due to the input of my in-laws I had a survey completed on a house in Grenoside prior to instructing lawyers. I have been advised that there is a flying freehold overhang to the house. My surveyor has said that some banks tend refuse to give a mortgage on this type of property.
It varies from the lender to lender. Lloyds has different requirements from Halifax. If you e-mail us we can check with the relevant lender. If you lender is happy to lend one our lawyers can help as they are used to dealing with flying freeholds in Grenoside. Conveyancing may be slightly more expensive based on your lender's requirements.
We're FTB’s - agreed a price, but the property agent advised that the seller will only move forward if we use their preferred conveyancers as they are insisting on a ‘quick sale’. Our preferred option is to instruct a family solicitor with experience of conveyancing in Grenoside
It is improbable the vendors are behind this. Should the owner desire ‘a quick sale', turning down a motivated purchaser is not the way to achieve this. Contact the sellers directly and explain that (a)you are keen to buy (b)you are ready to go, with mortgage lined up © you are unencumbered (d) you intend to proceed fast (e)but you are going to appoint your own,trusted Grenoside conveyancing solicitors - as opposed tothe ones that will give the estate agent a introducer fee or meet his conveyancing targets pre-set by senior management.
A licensed conveyancer acted on my conveyancing in Grenoside half a dozen years past and was holding my deeds but has now closed – What steps do I now take to retreive them?
Title deeds, as such, no longer exist as the majority of homes in Grenoside are recorded digitally at Land Registry. Where you need to prove evidence of proprietorship or are disposing of or refinancing your property lawyer can obtain up to date copies of the register from the Land Registry in any case.
If you feel there may be other documents or you have any other queries please e-mail your request with details of the transaction and documents you need to filerequest@clc-uk.org. The CLC will let you know what information they have and any additional information they may need before they are in a position to identify and send the documents to you. Following an intervention it may take some time for the CLC to access archived files and documents, but your request will be actioned as quickly as possible.