It is 10 years ago since I bought my property in Newtown. Conveyancing solicitors have just been retained on the sale but I am unable to locate the title documents. Will this cause complications?
You need not be too concerned. Firstly the deeds may be kept by your lender or they could still be with the conveyancers who oversaw the purchase. Secondly the likelihood is that the title will be recorded at the land registry and you will be able to establish that you own the property by your conveyancing solicitors acquiring current official copies of the land registers. Nearly all conveyancing in Newtown involves registered property but in the unlikely event that your property is unregistered it adds to the complexity but is resolvable.
I am helping my niece sell her house in Newtown. Does the solicitor commission an energy performance certificate or should I organise this?
After the demise of HIPs, energy performance certificates remained a compulsory element of moving house. An energy assessment must be commissioned in advance of the property being marketed. This is not something that law firms normally arrange. Where you are instructing a Newtown conveyancing practitioner they might be willing to arrange energy performance certificates given their relationships with reputable local assessors
Have just purchased a probate house at auction in Newtown. Conveyancing is necessary. What happens now?
Now that you have to all intents and purposes signed on the dotted line you should hire the services of a conveyancing practitioner soon as you now have a pending a fixed date to complete the transaction. Every auction property will ordinarily have an associated legal set of papers. This will include the copy title deeds, local authority and drainage searches. Where you are dealing with leasehold property the auction papers should provide a copy of the lease, management information and a sellers leasehold information form and other conveyancing paperwork specific to a leasehold property. You need to give this to the lawyer working for you at the earliest opportunity. Do make sure that you have funds organised to complete the transaction on the set completion date.
My offer was accepted on an apartment in Newtown on 24/9/2025, valuation was booked 3 days later, received a clean bill of health. Property lawyer instructed, so all that was missing was my mortgage offer. Having made daily calls to Santander and chasing them on my offer, I have now been told that my offer will not be issued unless the lawyer is on the Santander conveyancing panel. Are Santander entitled to hold back the Mortgage pending the lawyer being on the approved list?
A lender would not issue an offer until they have details of a lawyer on their panel. It can take a few weeks for Santander to deal with your lawyer's application to be on the Santander conveyancing panel. There's no guarantee that your solicitor will be accepted.
The deeds to our home are lost. The lawyers who dealt with the conveyancing in Newtown 4 years ago no longer exist. What do I do?
Gone are the days when you need to hold title original deeds to evidence that you own the land or premises, given that the Land Registry have everything they need in a digital format.
How can the Landlord & Tenant Act 1954 affect my commercial premises in Newtown and how can your lawyers assist?
The particular law that you refer to affords security of tenure to business leaseholders, granting the a statutory right to apply to court for a continuation of occupancy when the lease comes to an end. There are certain specified grounds that a landlord can refrain from granting a lease renewal and the rules are complex. Fees are different for commercial conveyancing. Newtown is one of our many areas of the UK in which our lawyers are located
As co-executor for the estate of my aunt I am disposing of a residence in Neath but live in Newtown. My solicitor (who is 260 kilometers from mehas requested that I sign a statutory declaration before the transaction finalising. Can you recommend a conveyancing practitioner in Newtown to attest this legal document for me?
strictly speaking you are unlikely to need to have the documents attested by a conveyancing solicitor. Ordinarily any notary public or solicitor will do regardless of whether they are located in Newtown
What is the reason for new build conveyancing in Newtown being more expensive?
Buying a new build premises is completely different from the normal house purchase conveyancing in Newtown. For a start developers usually require contracts to exchange within a tight deadline, the result being a a great deal of pressure on your solicitor to make sure all is in order. In addition new build properties often necessitate examination of adoption of highways, drains, planning considerations, building warranties or architects certificates. Mortgage company obligations are also more detailed. Due to the complex nature of the process for these types of properties, the conveyancing new build fees are higher than normal.