Completed the sale of my flat in Hengoed last September but my buyer keeps telephoning every few hours complaining that his solicitor is waiting to hear from mine. What should my lawyer have done following completion?
Following your house sale your lawyer is duty bound to send the transfer documentation and all supplemental paperwork to the purchaser's lawyers. If applicable, your solicitor must also evidence that the legal charge in favour of the lender has been repaid to the purchasers lawyers. There is unlikely to be post completion requirements specific conveyancing in Hengoed.
Will my conveyancing lawyers need to check that the building insurance when buying a house in Hengoed. My lender is Accord Mortgages
Accord Mortgages have specific requirements as set out in the UK Finance Lenders’ Handbook. As of 21/8/2026, the requirements read as follows :
I am assisting my step-mother sell her property in Hengoed. Will the conveyancing solicitor arrange an energy assessment or it is for the owner to see to?
After the demise of HIPs, EPC’s remained a mandatory part of selling a property. An energy performance certificate needs to be to hand prior to the property being advertised. It is not something that lawyers ordinarily arrange. If you are using a Hengoed conveyancing lawyer they might be willing to arrange energy assessments due to their relationships with reputable Hengoed providers
I currently have a mortgage with Barclays for my property in Hengoed. Conveyancing was finalised some time ago. If I am intending to rent out the flat and do not currently have a buy-to-let mortgage do I need to remortgage to a BTL mortgage or inform Barclays?
You must advise Barclays prior to renting your property as this is likely to be a breach of Barclays’s mortgage conditions. It may be that Barclays will allow you to rent out your former home without needing to switch to a buy-to-let mortgage but some lenders will add a surcharge to your mortgage rate to reflect the higher risk. You should contact Barclays directly. It should not be necessary to do this via a Barclays conveyancing panel solicitor.
Principality have agreed my mortgage in principle, my bid on a property in Hengoed has been agreed to, now what?
The estate agent will wish to be informed of your conveyancer's details (be sure the conveyancing practitioners are on the bank’s panel). Contact Principality or your broker and finish off any relevant paperwork. Principality will sellect a valuer who will get in touch with the selling agent or vendor to book a time for the valuation to occur. Once conducted (assuming no problems) it takes on average ten days to receive the mortgage offer. Principality will send the offer to you and your conveyancers. The transaction will then take it’s course according the nature and complexity of the conveyancing in Hengoed.
A friend advised me that if I am purchasing in Hengoed I should ask my conveyancer to carry out a Neighbourhood, Planning and Local Amenity Search. What does it cover?
This is a search is occasionally quoted for as part of the standard Hengoed conveyancing searches. It is a large document of more than thirty pages, listing and detailing significant information about Hengoed around the property and the people living there. It incorporates an Aerial Photograph, Planning Applications, Land Use, Mobile Phone Masts, Rights of Way, the local Housing Market, Council Tax Banding, the type of People living in the area, the dominant type of Housing, the Average Property Price, Crime details, Hengoed Education with maps and statistics, Local Amenities and other useful information concerning Hengoed.
Over the last few months I have been searching for a leasehold apartment up to £305k and identified one round the corner in Hengoed I like with open areas and transport links nearby, however it only has 49 years on the lease. I can't really find anything else in Hengoed for this price, so just wondered if I would be making a mistake purchasing a lease with such few years left?
If you require a home loan that many years will likely be a potential deal breaker. Discount the offer by the anticipated lease extension will cost if it has not already been discounted. If the current proprietor has owned the property for at least twenty four months you may request that they start the process of the extension and pass it to you. You can add 90 years to the current lease term and have £0 ground rent by law. You should consult your conveyancing lawyer concerning this.
I am on look out for some leasehold conveyancing in Hengoed. Before I get started I require certainty as to the number of years remaining on the lease.
If the lease is recorded at the land registry - and almost all are in Hengoed - then the leasehold title will always include the basic details of the lease, namely the date; the term; and the original parties. From a conveyancing perspective such details then enable any prospective buyer and lender to confirm that any lease they are looking at is the one relevant to that title. For any other purpose, such as confirming how long the term was granted for and calculating what is left, then the register should be sufficient on it's own.
Leasehold Conveyancing in Hengoed - A selection of Questions you should ask before buying
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The prefered form of lease structure is where the freehold title is owned by the leaseholders. In this arrangement the tenants enjoy being in charge if their destiny and although a managing agent is often employed if the building is bigger than a house conversion, the managing agent acts for the leaseholders themselves. Most Hengoed leasehold flats will be liable to pay a service charge for maintenance of the building invoiced by the management company. Should you buy the apartment you will have to meet this amount, usually quarterly throughout the year. This could differ from two or three hundred pounds to thousands of pounds for bigger purpose-built blocks. There will also be a ground rent for you to pay yearly, ordinarily this is not a exorbitant sum, say approximately £50-£100 but you should to check as sometimes it can be surprisingly expensive. How much is the maintenance charge and ground rent on the apartment?