Have just purchased a probate house at auction in Hackney Wick. Conveyancing is necessary. What are my next steps?
Given that you are now for all intents and purposes signed on the dotted line you should instruct a conveyancing practitioner soon as you will have a tight a drop dead date to complete the conveyancing. Every auction property will have an associated auction pack. This will include evidence of title and search results. Where you are dealing with leasehold premises the conveyancing papers may include a copy of the lease, management information and a sellers leasehold information form and other conveyancing paperwork specific to leasehold premises. You need to give this to the solicitor instructed by you as soon as possible. You also need to ensure that your finances are in place to complete the transaction on the set completion date.
My wife and I are spending time looking at flats in Hackney Wick and I am now considering a potential offer. Should I already have a property lawyer in place at this point? I am planning to take a home loan with Yorkshire BS.
You should start obtaining conveyancing estimates from solicitors ASAP. After you have chosen your lawyer and once your offer is accepted you can instruct them to work for you and forward their details on to the selling agent. Given that you are getting a mortgage with Yorkshire BS, ask your prospective lawyers if they are on the Yorkshire BS conveyancing panel otherwise they can't do the mortgage legal work.
I had an offer accepted on a house in Hackney Wick on 23/12/2025, valuation was booked 3 days later, all came back fine. Solicitor instructed, so all that was missing was my mortgage offer. Having made daily calls to Kent Reliance and chasing them on my offer, I have now been told that my offer will not be issued unless the lawyer is on the Kent Reliance conveyancing panel. Are Kent Reliance entitled to hold back the Mortgage pending the lawyer being on the approved list?
A lender would not issue a mortgage until they have details of a lawyer on their panel. It can take a few weeks for Kent Reliance to deal with your lawyer's application to be on the Kent Reliance conveyancing panel. There's no guarantee that your solicitor will be accepted.
Despite weeks of looking the Title Certificate and documents to my property are lost. The conveyancers who dealt with the conveyancing in Hackney Wick 4 years ago have long since closed. What are my next steps?
Gone are the days when you need to hold title original deeds to evidence that you are the registered proprietor of land or property, given that the Land Registry hold details of all registered land or property electronically.
I'm remortgaging my existing home to a buy to let loan with Virgin Money and intend to use the remaining equity towards another property. The area we are interested in is Hackney Wick. Will your lawyers be able to act for the two lenders and tie in the two deals?
Do use our search tool on this site to be sure that the lawyers are on the appropriate lender panels. On the basis that they are the conveyancer will be able to tie up the two conveyancing matters but you should talk with you solicitor and specify your expectations and needs.
Is it best to instruct a Hackney Wick conveyancing lawyer in close proximity to the house I am buying? I have an old university friend who can carry out the conveyancing however his firm is located over three hundred kilometers drive away.
The primary upside of using a high street Hackney Wick conveyancing firm is that you can drop in to sign documents, deliver your identification documents and apply pressure on them where appropriate. Having local Hackney Wick know how is a bonus. However it's more important to get someone that will pull out all the stops for you. If other friends have used your friend and they were happy that should outweigh using an unfamiliar Hackney Wick conveyancing lawyer just because they are local.
I’m about to sell my basement apartment in Hackney Wick. Conveyancing solicitors are to be appointed soon, but I have recently received a yearly service charge demand – should I leave it to the buyer to sort out?
It best that you pay the invoice as normal because all rents and service charges will be allotted as part of the financial calculations for completion monies, so you should recover the relevant percentage by the purchaser for the period running from after the completion date to the subsequent invoice date. Most managing agents will not acknowledge the buyer unless 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.
We have reached the end of our tether in trying to purchase the freehold in Hackney Wick. Can the Leasehold Valuation Tribunal adjudicate on premiums?
in cases where there is a absentee freeholder or where there is disagreement about the premium for a lease extension, under the relevant legislation it is possible to make an application to the Leasehold Valuation Tribunal to judgment on the price.
An example of a Freehold Enfranchisement case for a Hackney Wick flat is 12 Nutfield Road in July 2014. the Tribunal judged that the price to be paid by the applicants for the freehold interest should be £19,572 This case related to 2 flats. The unexpired term was 72.02 years.
Much to my surprise my lawyer in Hackney Wick is asking me for ID documents asserting that this forms part of his obligations as a conveyancer on the lender Solicitor panel. Am I being spun a yarn?
Anti-terror and anti-money-laundering rules require Hackney Wick conveyancing solicitors and licensed conveyancers to verify the identity of the person or body they are dealing with before they can accept their conveyancing business. The Terms and Conditions that you need to sign will no doubt confirm this. Your lawyer is right that the bank also require certain documents to be viewed. If a you refuse to provide ID verification documents, your conveyancer would not be able to accept instructions from you. Your lawyer also has obligations to obtain certain documents in accordance with the lender's UK Finance Lenders’ Handbook requirements