It is is a decade since I acquired my house in Minehead. Conveyancing lawyers have recently been instructed on the sale but I am unable to locate my title deeds. Will this cause complications?
Don’t worry too much. Firstly the deeds may be retained by the lender or they could be archived with the conveyancers who handled your purchase. Secondly the likelihood is that the property will be registered at the land registry and you will be able to establish that you own the property by your conveyancing lawyers obtaining current official copies of the land registers. Most conveyancing in Minehead involves registered property but in the rare situation where your property is unregistered it is more tricky but is not insurmountable.
I am helping my niece sell her property in Minehead. Will the conveyancer order an EPC or should I organise this?
After the abolition of Home Information Packs, EPC’s was left as a mandatory element of selling a house. An energy assessment needs to be commissioned prior to the property being marketed. It is not as aspect of the sale process that conveyancers ordinarily arrange. Where you are instructing a Minehead conveyancing lawyer they might help arrange energy performance certificates given their contacts with reputable local providers
Planning on purchasing a house in Minehead. I have received an online quote from a licenced conveyancer, which states: "There will be no charge for dealing with the Lender if you are obtaining a mortgage". I take this to mean that there will be no additional fee if the solicitor is on the Santander conveyancing panel. I wanted to make sure it means there will be no additional fees for dealing with the mortgage.
They are simply saying that the cost for acting for the lender is included in the fee being quoted. It is worth you checking that the Minehead property lawyer is on the Santander conveyancing panel.
I had an offer accepted on a house in Minehead on 8/4/2026, valuation was booked five days after, received a clean bill of health. Solicitor appointed, so all that was missing was my mortgage offer. Having made daily calls to Clydesdale and chasing them on my offer, I have now been told that my offer will not be issued unless the lawyer is on the Clydesdale conveyancing panel. Can the lender hold off the offer?
A lender would not issue a mortgage until they have details of a lawyer on their panel. It can take a few weeks for Clydesdale to deal with your lawyer's application to be on the Clydesdale conveyancing panel. There's no guarantee that your solicitor will be accepted.
Various online forums that I have visited warn that are the primary reason for delay in Minehead conveyancing transactions. Is that correct?
The Council of Property Search Organisations (CoPSO) has noted the determinations of a review by MoveWithUs that conveyancing searches do not figure amongst the common causes of delays during the legal transfer of property. Searches are unlikely to feature in any delay in conveyancing in Minehead.
4 months have gone by following my purchase conveyancing in Minehead completed. I have checked the Land Registry site which shows that I paid £150,000 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.
I decided to have a survey completed on a house in Minehead ahead of instructing conveyancers. I have been advised that there is a flying freehold element to the property. The surveyor has said that some lenders tend refuse to give a loan on this type of home.
It depends who your proposed lender is. HSBC has different instructions from Nationwide. If you call us we can investigate further with the appropriate mortgage company. If you lender is happy to lend one our lawyers can help as they are used to dealing with flying freeholds in Minehead. Conveyancing will be smoother if you use a solicitor in Minehead especially if they are familiar with such properties in Minehead.
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