Can the conveyancing solicitors identified through your search tool carry out auction conveyancing in Hyde Park?
There are a number of auction solicitors we can put you in touch with those conducting auction conveyancing. Hyde Park is one of hundreds of areas of in which our lawyers have offices.
I am selling my apartment in Hyde Park. Does the conveyancer need to be on the TSB conveyancing panel in order to deal with redeeming my mortgage?
Ordinarily, even if your lawyer is not on the TSB conveyancing panel they can still act for you on your sale. It might be that the lender will not release the original deeds (if applicable and increasingly irrelevant) until after the mortgage is paid off. You should speak to your lawyer directly before you start the process though to ensure that there is no problem as lenders are changing their requirements fairly frequently at the moment.
We are getting the release of further funds on our home loan from TSB as we want to carry out improvements to our home in Hyde Park. Do we need to appoint a nearby Hyde Park solicitor on the TSB conveyancing panel to handle the paperwork?
TSB don't usually require a member of their conveyancing panel to deal with the formalities. If they do require any legal work then you would need to ensure that such a lawyer was on the TSB conveyancing panel.
I have today made my last payment due on my mortgage with Yorkshire BS. I assume I don't need a Hyde Park lawyer on the Yorkshire BS panel to remove the mortgage at the Land Registry. Please confirm.
If you have finished paying off your Yorkshire BS 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 Yorkshire BS mortgage from the register. Yorkshire BS, 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 Yorkshire BS has sent the Land Registry the discharge electronically, and
- Yorkshire BS has instructed the Land Registry to do so
The mortgage over my property is with Barclays for my property in Hyde Park. Conveyancing was finalised months 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 before letting out your property as this is likely to be a breach of Barclays’s mortgage conditions. In many cases banks or building societies 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 lawyer.
I used Stirling Law a few years past for my conveyancing in Hyde Park. I now require my file but the law firm has closed. What do I do?
Do call the Solicitors Regulatory Authority (SRA) to assist in tracing 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 Hyde Park 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.
I am thinking of appointing a conveyancing solicitor in Hyde Park for my sale. Is there any facility to check a solicitor's record with the profession’s regulator?
You can find presented Solicitor Regulator Association (SRA) decisions arising from inquisitions started on or after Jan 2008. Go to Check a solicitor's record. To find information about the period before 1 January 2008, or to check a firm's history, phone 0870 606 2555, 08.00 - 18.00 any week day save for Tuesday when lines open at 9.30am. For callers outside the UK, use +44 (0)121 329 6800. The regulator may recorded call for training reasons.
I am unable to travel my Hyde Park conveyancing lawyers office to execute documents connected to my conveyancing in Hyde Park – is this a problem?
You need not be concerned. Hyde Park conveyancing solicitors can undertake conveyancing transactions for clients who are based anywhere. It is not necessary for you to be able to attend a Hyde Park conveyancers office. Almost all conveyancing practitioner can deal with everything remotely from their Hyde Park premises.