My husband and I are hoping to buy a house in Maidstone and are in fact using a Maidstone conveyancing practice. Within the last couple of days our conveyancer has sent a preliminary report and documents to look through in anticipation of exchanging contracts shortly. Clydesdale have this evening contacted us to advise us that there is now an issue as our Maidstone lawyer is not on their conveyancing panel. Please explain?
If you are buying a property requiring a mortgage it is usual for the purchasers' solicitors to also act for the purchaser's lender. In order to act for a bank or building society a law firm has to be on that lender's conveyancing panel. An application has to be made by the law firm to the lender to become a member of the lender's panel and there are increasingly strict criteria which the firm has to satisfy and indeed some lenders now require their panel members to be part of the Law Society’s Conveyancing Quality Scheme. Your property lawyer should contact your lender and see if they can apply for membership of their conveyancing panel, but if that is not viable they will instruct their own lawyers to represent them. You don't have to instruct a firm on the lender’s conveyancing panel as you are at liberty to use your preferred Maidstone lawyers, in which case it will likely add costs, and it will likely delay the transaction as you have another set of people involved.
Is there a search tool that I can utilise to find out if the solicitor handling my conveyancing in Maidstone is on the bank’sapproved panel? I am looking to avoid the situation of having one lawyer for me and one for Nationwide Building Society thus spending £175.00 in additional conveyancing bill.
Feel free to make use of the search tool on this web page. Please choose the lender and type ‘Maidstone’ or your location and you will see numerous solicitors located in Maidstone or by proximity to you.
I have justdiscovered that Action Conveyancing have closed. They conducted my conveyancing in Maidstone for a purchase of a leasehold apartment 18 months ago. How can I establish that the property is not still registered in the name of the previous owner?
The quickest method to see if the premises is registered to you, you can make a search of the land registry (£3.00). You can either do this yourself or ask a law firm to do this for you. If you are not registered you can seek help from one of a number of Maidstone conveyancing specialists.
Just had an offer accepted on a new build flat in Maidstone. Conveyancing is daunting at the best of times but I have never purchased a new build flat before. What sort of enquires would be asked in new build legal work.
Set out below is a sample of a selection of leasehold new build enquiries that you may expect your new-build leasehold conveyancing in Maidstone
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Forfeiture - bankruptcy or liquidation must not apply under this provision. The Lease must contain a provision on behalf of the Vendor to pay the service charges in respect of unoccupied units in order to ensure that all services can be provided. Will control of the Management Company (if any) be handed over to purchasers on completion of the last sale or earlier? There must be mutual enforceability of lessee’s covenants.
Given that I will soon spend 450k on a property in Maidstone I would like to have a conversation with the lawyer about myconveyancing prior to giving the go ahead to the firm. Is this something that you can arrange?
Absolutely - we would be happy to talk to you we do not take any clients on without you liaising with the solicitor who will be doing your conveyancing in Maidstone.There is no ‘factory style conveyancing’ - every client is unique individual, not a matter number. The law firms that we put you in touch with believe that the figure you are provided with for your conveyancing in Maidstone should be the figure that you are charged.
We are one month into a residential purchase having been recommend to solicitors by the local agent to carry out the conveyancing in Maidstone. I am am extremely dissatisfied with the quality of service. Could you help me find new solicitors?
A conveyancer would need to be really bad to suggest changing them. Has the loan offer been issued? In the event that it has you need to make them aware of the replacement solicitor and get the loan are re-issued. The solicitor ideally should be on the lenders panel to avoid supplemental expenses and frustration. So that should be your first question of the new solicitors. Our find a solicitor tool will assist you in finding a lender approved lawyer for your home move in Maidstone