Me and my wife are acquiring a maisonette in Higham Ferrers. My lawyer is not listed on the mortgage company conveyancing list. Can I still use my Higham Ferrers conveyancing solicitor notwithstanding that they are excluded from the lender panel?
You have numerous options available to you here
- Carry on with your chosen Higham Ferrers solicitor but your lender will undoubtedly instruct a property lawyer on their approved list. The net result is additional fees together with potential frustration.
- Get a new conveyancer to act in the purchase, making sure they are on the mortgage company conveyancing panel.
- Convince your property lawyer to do everything within their powers to join the bank’s panel of solicitors
We just had an offer accepted to purchase with Darlington Building Society. We have called around locally yet am unable to find a Higham Ferrers conveyancing firm on the Darlington Building Society panel. Can you assist?
Feel free to take advantage of the search tool on this site. Please choose the lender and type Higham Ferrers or your preferred area and you will discover a number of lawyer located in Higham Ferrers or by proximity to you.
I am helping my sister sell her house in Higham Ferrers. Will the conveyancing solicitor order the energy performance certificate or it is for the owner to see to?
After the abolition of HIPs, energy performance certificates was kept a compulsory element of selling a house. An energy performance certificate must be commissioned in advance of the property being advertised. It is not a task that conveyancers ordinarily organise. Where you are instructing a Higham Ferrers conveyancing practitioner they might be able to arrange EPC’s due to their contacts with long established local assessors
Is there a list of Co-operative panel conveyancers in Higham Ferrers on the Council of Mortgage Lender’s Website?
No. There is no such facility on the Council of Mortgage Lenders or Building Society Association websites. Very few lending institutions make their panel listings open the public online. Where you are looking for a Higham Ferrers conveyancer on the Co-operative please make the most of our facility.
We expect to receive a DIP from Principality this week so we know how much we could potentially offer as otherwise we are dependent on web based calculators (which aren't taking into account credit checks etc). Do Principality recommend any Higham Ferrers solicitors on the Principality conveyancing panel, or is it better to find our own lawyer?
You will need to appoint Higham Ferrers solicitors independently although you'll need to choose one on the Principality conveyancing panel. The solicitor represents both you and Principality through the process.
Will commercial conveyancing searches reveal planned roadworks that may impact a commercial property in Higham Ferrers?
Many commercial conveyancing solicitors in Higham Ferrers will execute a SiteSolutions Highways report as it reduces the time that conveyancers spend in investigating accurate data on highways that impact buildings and development assets in Higham Ferrers. The report provides definitive information on the adoption status of roads, footpaths and verges, as well as the implication of traffic schemes and the rights of way surrounding a commercial development sites in Higham Ferrers.
For every commercial conveyancing transaction in Higham Ferrers it is crucial to investigate the adoption status of roads surrounding a site. Failure to identify developments where adoption procedures have not been addressed adequately can result in delays to Higham Ferrers commercial conveyancing transactions as well as present a risk to future intentions for the site. These searches are not carried out for domestic conveyancing in Higham Ferrers.
I used Arc property Solicitors a few years past for my conveyancing in Higham Ferrers. I now require my papers but the law firm is no longer operating. What do I do?
You should call 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 Higham Ferrers of the conveyancing firm of solicitors you previously used, the name of conveyancing solicitor with whom you had dealings, and the date on which you last had dealings with the firm.
My wife and I have recently had an offer accepted on a apartment and had meeting on Friday with Nationwide for the mortgage. They warned me that when it comes to choosing a solicitor that unless they are on their approved list of lawyers then we will have to pay out an extra fee of £200. This is is due to the fact that they will then have to instruct a property lawyer to act on their behalf in addition to the one we select for ourselves and we are liable for their fees. I have asked Nationwide to send me with a list so I can request quotes only from their approved lawyers but was told that I need to check with each individual lawyer to see if they are on the panel. Is their an easier way of going about this?
You can enquire of Nationwide what their criteria for joining their panel is for a conveyancer.Then ask the lawyer of your choice whether they fit that criteria and have they acted on loans for Nationwide historically. Where the answer to those is yes, then just clarify this with Nationwide. Another option is to use our search tool and we may be able to find you a property lawyer in Higham Ferrers on the approved list for Nationwide.