My previous conveyancer has given a fee calculation of £1350 for no sale no fee conveyancing in Honiton. I’m looking to sell a newly refurbished house for £225,000. Is this too much? Is it above the average fee for conveyancing in Honiton?
The estimate does seem a tad overpriced. If you shop around you might decrease the fees slightly by say a hundred pounds. On the other hand, you couldlive to rue choosing an an untested lawyer. If is important to ensure the solicitor can also act for your mortgage company. You can use our comparison tool to select a Honiton conveyancing company on the banks approved list of lawyers which can often include conveyancing solicitors in Honiton.
My husband and I swapping mortgage lender for our flat in Honiton with Santander. We have a son approaching twenty who lives with us. Our solicitor requested us to identify any adults other than ourselves who reside at the property. The solicitor has now sent a form for our son to sign, giving up any rights in the event that the property is repossessed. I have two questions (1) Is this document specific to the Santander conveyancing panel as he never had to sign this form when we purchased 4 years ago (2) Does our son by signing this giving up his entitlement to inherit the property?
On the face of it your lawyer has done nothing wrong as it is established procedure for any occupier who is aged 17 or over to sign the necessary Consent Form, which is purely to state that any rights he has in the property are postponed and secondary to Santander. This is solely used to protect Santander if the property were re-possessed so that in such circumstances, your son would be legally obliged to leave. It does not impact your son’s right to inherit the apartment. Please note that if your son were to inherit and the mortgage in favour of Santander had not been discharged, he would be liable to take over the loan or pay it off, but other than that, there is nothing stopping him from keeping the property in accordance with your will or the rules of intestacy.
We see that you have a search directory listing law firms on the Bank of Ireland conveyancing panel. Do firms pay you a commission if I instruct them for our own conveyancing in Honiton?
We are a listing service only for law firms wishing to communicate if they are on the Bank of Ireland conveyancing panel or other lender panels. We do not charge referral fees to any conveyancer that you subsequently appoint for your conveyancing in Honiton.
We are purchasing a flat in Honiton. I might seem paranoid but how we can trust a lawyer? At some point we will need to deposit our life savings into their account. What protection do we have from them run away with our deposit?
Be assured that all money in a Solicitors client account is 100% safe, and even if your Solicitor ran off with it, the Law Society would reimburse you fully.
I have paid off my mortgage with Nottingham. I assume I don't need a Honiton lawyer on the Nottingham panel to discharge the mortgage at the Land Registry. Please confirm.
If you have finished paying off your Nottingham mortgage, they may send you evidence showing that you have paid it off. Alternatively they may notify the Land Registry directly. The Land Registry need to see this evidence before they will remove the Nottingham mortgage from the register. Nottingham, and any evidence they send you, will determine the action you need to take. In cases where no conveyancer is acting for you and you have paid off your mortgage:
- but are not moving to another property
- where Nottingham has sent the Land Registry the discharge electronically, and
- Nottingham has instructed the Land Registry to do so
I had an offer accepted on a house in Honiton on 19/9/2025, valuation was booked 3 days after, all came back fine. Property lawyer retained, so the only thing outstanding 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.
Over the last few months I have been searching for a leasehold apartment up to £245,000 and identified one close by in Honiton I like with open areas and station nearby, however it only has 52 years on the lease. I can't really find anything else in Honiton in this price bracket, so just wondered if I would be making a grave error buying a short lease?
Should you require a home loan the shortness of the lease will be problematic. Discount the price by the expected lease extension will cost if not already taken into account. If the current proprietor has owned the property for at least 2 years you may ask them to start the process of the extension and then assign it to you. You can add 90 years to the current lease and have £0 ground rent by law. You should consult your conveyancing lawyer about this matter.
Is it simple use the search facility to locate a conveyancing practitioner in Honiton on the authorised to act for my bank?
1st select a bank such as Santander, Skipton Building Society or Barclays Direct then type in your location a common one being Honiton. Conveyancing organisations in Honiton and nationally will then be identified.