Can you explain why leasehold purchase conveyancing in Long Sutton costs more?
Long Sutton leasehold conveyancing transactions usually involve additional investigations than freeholds including investigating the Lease, liaising with the Landlord such as serving relevant notices on the Landlord or managing agent, obtaining up-to-date service charge and management information, obtaining Landlord’s consents and reviewing management accounts and formation documents.
Our bank has recommended solicitors on their panel based in Long Sutton but I would rather choose a conveyancing lawyer in Long Sutton round the corner to me. Are you able to help?
Not all Long Sutton conveyancing solicitors are on all lender’s conveyancing panel. Use our search tool to identify a Long Sutton conveyancing firm on the on the mortgage company panel.
My relative recommended that where I am purchasing in Long Sutton I should ask my conveyancer to carry out a Neighbourhood, Planning and Local Amenity Search. Can you explain what the purpose of this search is?
A search of this type is usually quoted for as part of the standard Long Sutton conveyancing searches. It is not a small document of about 40 pages, listing and detailing important information about Long Sutton around the property and the people living there. It includes an Aerial Photograph, Planning Applications, Land Use, Mobile Phone Masts, Rights of Way, the Long Sutton Housing Market, Council Tax Banding, the type of People living in the area, the dominant type of Housing, the Average House Prices, Crime details, Local Education with maps and statistics, Local Amenities and other useful information about Long Sutton.
five months have gone by since my purchase conveyancing in Long Sutton completed. I have checked the Land Registry site which shows that I paid £200,000 when infact I paid £180,000. Why the discrepancy?
The price paid figure is taken from the application to register the purchase. It is the figure included in the Transfer (the legal deed which transfers the asset from one person to the other) and referred to as the 'consideration' or purchase price. You can report an error in the price paid figure using the LR online form. In most cases errors result from typos so at first glance the figure. Do report it so they can double check and advise.
Due to the advice of my in-laws I had a survey completed on a property in Long Sutton ahead of retaining conveyancers. I have been told that there is a flying freehold overhang to the house. My surveyor has said that some lenders tend refuse to give a mortgage on a flying freehold house.
It depends who your proposed lender is. Santander has different instructions for example to Birmingham Midshires. Should you wish to telephone us we can check with the appropriate bank. If you lender is happy to lend one our lawyers can help as they are used to dealing with flying freeholds in Long Sutton. Conveyancing may be slightly more expensive based on your lender's requirements.
My husband and I are 14 days into a freehold purchase having been directed to solicitors by the high street agent to perform conveyancing in Long Sutton. I am am starting to be dissatisfied with the level of service. Could you help me find new conveyancers?
A solicitor would need to be really bad in order to consider diss instructing them. Has the loan offer been generated? If so you will need to advise them of the new contact details and get the loan are re-issued. Your new conveyancer needs to be on the lenders panel to avoid supplemental costs and delays. So that should be your first question of the new lawyers. Our search tool will assist you in finding a bank approved solicitor for your conveyancing in Long Sutton