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Reasons to use our Lifton conveyancing solicitors

  • 1 Lifton conveyancers have a crucial edge when it comes to Lifton conveyancing as they have valuable local knowledge of local authority requirements, planning policies and other issues that will affect your sale or purchase
  • 2 Lifton conveyancer are the key to a successful Lifton home move, keeping the process under control. They are on your side throughout, offering dedicated advice for the duration of your transaction
  • 3 Regardless other companies tell you it may be important to pop into your conveyancer to sign documents. There are enough parties engaged in a house sale without needing to add Royal Mail into the equation.
  • 4 The mark of a good conveyancing solicitor in Lifton is quality not quantity. The level of service offered by conveyancing "factories" (sometimes 'recommended' by large estate agency chains) sometimes falls short of the high standards of professionalism you will expect.
  • 5 Lifton conveyancers work in partnership with Lifton estate agents, property finders, surveyors, lenders and other professionals to ensure that the highest level of service is offered to buyers and sellers every step of the way, with the aim of reducing administrative burdens and transaction times

Examples of recent conveyancing in Lifton since January 2025*

Recently asked questions about conveyancing in Lifton

Our son-in-law is about to exchange on a house that has just been built in Lifton with a mortgage from Santander. His lawyer has advised him of a delay in completing the ‘Disclosure of Incentive Form’. What is this document - I have never come across this before?

The document is intended to provide information to the main parties engaged in the purchase. Therefore, it will be provided to your son’s lawyer who should be on the Santander conveyancing panel as a standard part of the process, and to the valuer when requested. The developer will be required to start the process by downloading the form and completing it. The form will therefore need to be available for the valuer at the time of his or her site visit. The form should be sent to the Santander conveyancing panel solicitor as early as possible, in order to avoid any last minute delays, and no later than at exchange of contracts.

Will conveyancers request an advanced payment for conveyancing in Lifton?

Where you are retaining lawyers for conveyancing in Lifton your lawyer will ask you put them with monies to cover the the cost of the conveyancing searches. This will be the total of the cost of the conveyancing searches. When the deposit is as part of the sale price then this will be needed immediately ahead of exchange of contracts. Any further balance that is needed will be payable a couple of days prior to the day of completion.

The Lifton conveyancing firm that I recently instructed on my purchase in Lifton have without warning shut down. They were on acting for me because I had to have a solicitor on the Bank of Ireland conveyancing panel and my previous Lifton lawyer was not. I paid them £170 in advance. What should be my next steps?

If you have an estate agent involved then inform them immediately so that they advise the vendors that there may be a slight delay due to the problems encountered. Hopefully they will be sympathetic and urge their lawyer to send a new set of papers to your new solicitors. You will need to appoint new lawyers that are on the Bank of Ireland conveyancing panel and notify the lender. If you have paid over any money, it will hopefully be held by the SRA as money in an intervened firm's bank accounts is transferred to the SRA. Then, the SRA or the intervention agent looks at the intervened firm's accounts to work out who the money belongs to. To claim your money you will need to contact the SRA. If the SRA cannot return money you are owed from the firm's bank accounts, or if they can only return part of the money, you can apply to the Compensation Fund for a grant. Your new solicitors may be able to help.

About to purchase a new build apartment in Lifton. Conveyancing is necessary evil at the best of times but I have never purchased a new build flat before. Can you give me some examples of some of the questions asked in new build legal work.

Here are examples of a selection of leasehold new build enquiries that you should expect your new-build leasehold conveyancing in Lifton

    The Landlord must covenant to assume the management if the Management Company goes into liquidation or otherwise defaults in running the management scheme. Will control of the Management Company (if any) be handed over to purchasers on completion of the last sale or earlier? Forfeiture - bankruptcy or liquidation must not apply under this provision. Please supply a car parking plan. There must be mutual enforceability of lessee’s covenants.

Yesterday I discovered that there is a flying freehold issue on a house I have offered on two weeks back in what should have been a quick, no chain conveyancing. Lifton is the location of the property. Is there any advice you can impart?

Flying freeholds in Lifton are rare but are more likely to exist in relation to terraced houses. Even where you use a solicitor outside Lifton you must be sure that your lawyer goes through the deeds very carefully. Your lender may require your conveyancing solicitor to take out an indemnity policy. Some of the more diligent conveyancing solicitors in Lifton may determine that this is not enough and that the deeds be re-written to give you the most up to date legal protection. If so, the next door neighbour also had to sign up to the revised deeds.It is possible that your lender will not accept the situation so the sooner you find out the better. You should also check with your insurance broker as to whether they will insure a flying freehold residence.

We expect to complete our sale of a £450,000 maisonette in Lifton in 8 days. The landlords agents has quoted £372 for Landlord’s certificate, insurance certificate and previous years service charge statements. Is it legal for a freeholder to charge an administration fee for a flat conveyance in Lifton?

Lifton conveyancing on leasehold apartments ordinarily involves administration charges levied by management companies :

    Answering conveyancing due diligence enquiries Where consent is required before sale in Lifton Copies of the building insurance and schedule Deeds of covenant upon sale Registering of the assignment of the change of lessee after a sale
Your conveyancer will have no control over the level of the charges for this information but the average costs for the information for Lifton leasehold premises is £350. For Lifton conveyancing transactions it is customary for the seller to pay for these costs. The landlord or their agents are under no legal obligation to answer such questions most will be willing to do so - albeit often at exorbitant prices where the fees bear little relation to the work involved. Unfortunately there is no law that requires fixed charges for administrative tasks. Neither is there any legal time frame by which they are obliged to provide the information.

I am the registered owner of a 2 bed flat in Lifton, conveyancing having been completed in 1996. Can you let me have an estimated range of the fair premium for a lease extension? Comparable flats in Lifton with a long lease are worth £216,000. The average or mid-range amount of ground rent is £50 levied per year. The lease terminates on 21st October 2094

With just 69 years unexpired we estimate the price of your lease extension to span between £9,500 and £11,000 as well as plus your own and the landlord's "reasonable" professional fees.

The suggested premium range that we have given is a general guide to costs for extending a lease, but we are not able to provide a more accurate figure in the absence of detailed due diligence. You should not use the figures in a Notice of Claim or as an informal offer. There are no doubt additional issues that need to be considered and clearly you should be as accurate as possible in your negotiations. Neither should you move forward placing reliance on this information before getting professional advice.

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Residential Landlord and Tenant Conveyancing solicitors in Lifton

The list below is a non-comprehensive list of solicitors in Lifton practicing in landlord and tenant law and on the regulations governing different types of tenancies. This may include advice on Court proceedings for possession

  • Kyldenna Limited, 15-19 Westgate Street, Launceston, Cornwall, PL15 7AB
  • Peters Langsford Davies Llp, Westgate, Launceston, Cornwall, PL15 9AD

Commercial Conveyancing solicitors in Lifton regulated by the SRA

The list below is a small selection of solicitors in Lifton practicing in commercial conveyancing in Lifton. This should include advice on complex issues under the Landlord and Tenant Act of 1954
  • Karen Wallis Law Llp, Old House, 11 Exeter Street, Launceston, Cornwall, PL15 9EQ
  • K Wallis Limited, Old House, 11 Exeter Street, Launceston, Cornwall, PL15 9EQ
  • Kyldenna Limited, 15-19 Westgate Street, Launceston, Cornwall, PL15 7AB
  • Peters Langsford Davies Llp, Westgate, Launceston, Cornwall, PL15 9AD

Planning law solicitors in Lifton regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority

The list below is a non-comprehensive list of solicitors in Lifton specialising in planning law. This may include advice on compulsory purchases in Lifton
  • Karen Wallis Law Llp, Old House, 11 Exeter Street, Launceston, Cornwall, PL15 9EQ
  • K Wallis Limited, Old House, 11 Exeter Street, Launceston, Cornwall, PL15 9EQ

*Source acknowledgement: House price data produced by Land Registry as well data supplied by Lexsure Ltd.

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