I am purchasing a property for cash in Honiton. I have lived for the previous Seventeen years in Honiton. Conveyancing searches are a lot of money. As I know the area and road intimately must I have all the conveyancing searches?
Provided that you do not need a home loan, then all but one or two of the Honiton conveyancing searches are non-obligatory. Your solicitor will try and steer you, no-doubt strongly, that you should have searches done, but he has a professional duty to take that path of encouragement . Do consider; if you are likely to sell the house one day, it will likely be be of importance to your future buyer what the searches reveal. Sometimes houses with no practical issues can still throw up unfavourable search results. A competent conveyancing solicitor in Honiton should be able to give you some constructive advice concerning this.
It is a dozen years since I acquired my home in Honiton. Conveyancing solicitors have recently been retained on the sale but I can't find the title deeds. Is this a problem?
Don’t worry too much. First there is a possibility that the deeds will be kept by the lender or they could stored with the solicitor who acted in the purchase. Secondly the likelihood is that the title will be registered at the land registry and you will be able to establish that you own the property by your conveyancing solicitors procuring up to date copy of the land registers. The vast majority of conveyancing in Honiton relates to registered property but in the rare situation where your home is unregistered it is more problematic but is not insurmountable.
My grandmother passed away six months ago and as sole heir and executor I was left the property in Honiton. The house had a small mortgage remaining of approximately £8000. I want to have the title changed into my name whilst I re-mortgage to Nottingham, pay off the mortgage. Is this allowed?
If you plan to re-mortgage then Nottingham will insist on your using a conveyancer on the Nottingham 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 Nottingham 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 Nottingham mortgage is registered as a charge at the Land Registry.
Have just purchased a repossessed house at auction in Honiton. Conveyancing is needed. What is next?
Having exchanged you will need to retain a conveyancing solicitor soon as you will have a pending a drop dead date to complete the transaction. Every auction property will have a corresponding legal pack. This will include most,if not all of the documents that your conveyancer requires. In the case of leasehold premises the auction papers may include a copy of the lease, management information and a sellers leasehold information form and associated conveyancing documentation pertinent to a leasehold property. You must pass this on to your appointed conveyancing solicitor ASAP. Do make sure that you have funds organised to complete on the on the contractual date .
My uncle pointed out to me me that in purchasing a property in Honiton there could be various restrictions affecting the ability to carry out external alterations to the property. Is this right?
We are aware of a number of properties in Honiton which have some sort of restriction or requirement of consent to carry out external variations. Part of the conveyancing in Honiton should determine what restrictions are applicable and advising you as part of a ROT that should be sent to you.
We are due to move house in September. Will my conveyancing solicitor communicate with the removal company on the completion day. Incidentally, can you put forward a removal company in Honiton. Conveyancing solicitor was chosen before I stumbled across this website.
On the day of completion you can pick up the keys from your property agent but this can only occur after the sellers lawyers advise the agent that they acknowledge receipt of the completion payment and the keys can be released. After that you should inform the removal company that they can start moving you in. We are not in a position to recommend a specific removal organisation but can help you choose a residential property solicitor in Honiton or a lawyer with expertise in conveyancing in Honiton.
I am buying a property and the lawyer has identified Chancel Repair for which the house may be liable because it falls into the area of such a church. She has mentioned insurance. Is this really necessary for conveyancing in Honiton
Unless a prior purchase of the property took place after 12 October 2013 you can take it that lawyers carrying out conveyancing in Honiton to continue to recommend a chancel search and or chancel repair liability policy.
I need to instruct a conveyancing solicitor in Honiton for my sale. Is it possible to review a firm’s complaints history with the profession’s regulator?
One may review presented Solicitor Regulator Association (SRA) decisions stemming from investigations commenced on or after 1 January 2008. Go to Check a solicitor's record. For details about the period before 1 January 2008, or to check a firm's history, ring 0870 606 2555, 08.00 - 18.00 any week day save for Tuesday when lines open at 9.30am. For non-uk callers, use +44 (0)121 329 6800. The regulator could monitor telephone calls for training purposes.