It has come to my attention via my IFA that my Gunnersbury property lawyer is not on the mortgage company Solicitor panel. How can I be certain whether this is indeed the case?
Your first step should be to call your Gunnersbury conveyancer. You lawyer should notify you what has happened. If they are not on the panel they could put your in touch with solicitors on the conveyancing panel for your lender.
It is 10 years ago since I purchased my house in Gunnersbury. Conveyancing solicitors have now been retained on the sale but I can't find my deeds. Will this jeopardise the sale?
Don’t worry too much. First there is a possibility that the deeds will be with the lender or they may be in the possession of the conveyancers who oversaw the purchase. Secondly in most cases the land will be recorded at the land registry and you will be able to prove you own the property by your conveyancing solicitors obtaining up to date copy of the land registers. The vast majority of conveyancing in Gunnersbury involves registered property but in the unlikely event that your property is not registered it adds to the complexity but is not insurmountable.
My uncle passed away six months ago and as sole heir and executor I was left the house in Gunnersbury. The house had a relatively small loan remaining of approximately £4500. I want to have the title changed into my name whilst I re-mortgage to Aldermore, pay off the mortgage. Is this allowed?
Where you plan to refinance then Aldermore will require that you use a conveyancer on the Aldermore conveyancing panel. Here is link to the Land Registry online guidance around what to do when a property owner dies. This will help you to understand the registration process behind changing the details re the registered title. in your case it would appear that you are effectively purchasing the property from the estate. Your Aldermore conveyancing panel solicitor pays the new mortgage money into the estate, the estate pays off the old mortgage, the charge is released and you become the owner and the Aldermore mortgage is registered as a charge at the Land Registry.
A friend recommended that where I am purchasing in Gunnersbury 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 Gunnersbury conveyancing searches. It is a large document of more than thirty pages, listing and detailing significant information about Gunnersbury around the property and the people living there. It includes an Aerial Photograph, Planning Applications, Land Use, Mobile Phone Masts, Rights of Way, the local Housing Market, Council Tax Banding, the demographics of People living in the area, the dominant type of Housing, the Average Property Price, Crime statistics, Gunnersbury Education with plans and statistics, Local Amenities and other useful information about Gunnersbury.
Is it possible to transfer to a new conveyancer as I have to find one who is on the Barclays conveyancing list. I was using a family conveyancing solicitor in Gunnersbury round the corner but the firm is not approved by Barclays
We will our best to assist in finding you a conveyancing solicitor in Gunnersbury on the Barclays panel. Please note that the solicitors that we list do not pay us commission if you instruct them and are registered with the Solicitors Regulation Authority who regulate all conveyancing solicitors in Gunnersbury. In making use of search facility on this page, you can compare costs for conveyancing solicitors in Gunnersbury and beyond.
Estate agents have just been given the go-ahead to market my 2 bed flat in Gunnersbury. Conveyancing is yet to be initiated, however I have recently had a yearly maintenance charge invoice – what should I do?
It best that you discharge the service charge as normal because all ground rent and service payments will be apportioned on completion, so you will be reimbursed by the buyer for the period running from after the completion date to the next payment date. Most managing agents will not acknowledge the buyer until the service charges have been paid and are up to date, so it is important for both buyer and seller for the seller to show that they are up to date. This will smooth the conveyancing process.
Having spent months of negotiations we simply can't agree with our landlord on how much the lease extension should cost for our flat in Gunnersbury. Does the Leasehold Valuation Tribunal have jurisdiction to calculate the appropriate figures?
You certainly can. We can put you in touch with a Gunnersbury conveyancing firm who can help.
An example of a Freehold Enfranchisement matter before the tribunal for a Gunnersbury flat is 169 Southfield Road in September 2013. the tribunal decided that the premium to be paid in respect of the collective enfranchisement should be £51,203 This case affected 2 flats. The unexpired term was 64.64 years.