Our lawyer has uncovered a defect with the lease for the apartment we are buying in Mansfield Woodhouse. The seller’s lawyers have suggested title insurance as a workaround. We are content with insurance and will pay for it. Our property lawyer has advised that he must be satisfied that the lender is content with this solution. Are we the client or is the lender?
Notwithstanding that you have a mortgage offer from the bank does not mean to say that the property will meet their requirements for the purposes of a mortgage. Your lawyer has to ensure that the lease has to comply with the UK Finance Lenders’ Handbook provisions. You and the lender are the client. These conveyancing instructions have to be complied with.
I am buying a semi-detached house in Mansfield Woodhouse. Conveyancing solicitors are said to be ‘a necessary evil’ but can I do it myself?
Leaving aside the complexities and merits of DIY conveyancing in Mansfield Woodhouse you will have to appoint a solicitor on your lender's conveyancing panel to look after their interests. Most people therefore find it easier to let the solicitor act for them and the lender. Furthermore there is minimal cost savings to be made in you doing conveyancing for yourself and another lawyer conducting the conveyancing for the lender. Please feel free to use the search tool to find a lawyer on your lender panel in Mansfield Woodhouse.
I am looking for a flat up to £305k and found one close by in Mansfield Woodhouse I like with amenity areas and railway links in the vicinity, however it only has 49 remaining years left on the lease. There is not much else in Mansfield Woodhouse suitable, so just wondered if I would be making a mistake purchasing a short lease?
Should you need a mortgage the shortness of the lease will be problematic. Reduce the price by the anticipated lease extension will cost if not already taken into account. If the current proprietor has owned the property for at least twenty four months you can ask them to commence the lease extension formalities and then assign it to you. You can add 90 years to the current lease with a zero ground rent applied. You should speak to your conveyancing lawyer concerning this.
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We are 18 days into a freehold purchase having been recommend to a firm by the local agent to handle our conveyancing in Mansfield Woodhouse. We are not happy. Could you help me find new solicitors?
They would have to be really poor in order to consider replacing them. Has the mortgage been sent? If so you need to make them aware of the replacement lawyer and have the offer are issued to the new lawyers. Your conveyancer should be on the mortgage company approved list to avoid escalating expenses and complications. So that should be your starting point. Our search tool will assist you in finding a lender approved conveyancer for your conveyancing in Mansfield Woodhouse
Should one as executor remove a departed person's details from the title register for a house in Mansfield Woodhouse?
Where a Mansfield Woodhouse property is jointly owned and one of the proprietors passes away, their name will not automatically be removed from the Land Registry title. You are not required to remove their name as in the event of a sale you would simply be required to supply proof why the other owner is missing from the contract, such as a grant of probate.
With a view to making things simpler in the future you may arrange to have the deceased name erased from the title by submitting an application to the land registry with proof of the death. There is no land registry fee payable.