Is there a search tool that I can utilise to discover of the solicitor carrying out my conveyancing in Nine Elms is on the bank’sconveyancing panel? I am looking to avoid the situation of having one lawyer for me and one for Barclays Direct thus paying £175.00 in another set of legal invoice.
Please do make the most of the find a lender approved solicitor tool on this site. Please choose the lender and type ‘Nine Elms’ or your location and you will discover a number of lawyer located in Nine Elms or nearest you.
We had selected conveyancing lawyers locally in Nine Elms on the Clydesdale solicitor panel. They have just invoiced me an additional charge for handling the Clydesdale mortgage. Is this an additional conveyancing fee specified by Clydesdale?
Provided it is contained in their Terms of Engagement or Quote then yes your conveyancing practitioner is entitled to levy a fee for this. This fee is not set by Clydesdale but by your Nine Elms solicitor. Numerous firms on the Clydesdale panel will levy ’dealing with mortgage’ fee and others do not.
I recently had an offer agreed on a house in Nine Elms. My financial adviser pressured me to appoint their conveyancing practitioner. I paid an upfront payment of £225. Shortly after, the property lawyer called me embarrassingly acknowledging that they were not on the UBS conveyancing panel. Am I right in thinking that I should be due a refund?
You should be able to recover this from the law firm if they were not on the UBS panel. They should have asked at the outset which lender you were obtaining a mortgage with. An important lesson to readers of this site is to check that the lawyers are on the appropriate lender panel.
I had an offer accepted on an apartment in Nine Elms on 17/9/2025, valuation was booked five days later, received a clean bill of health. Solicitor retained, so the only thing outstanding was my mortgage offer. Having made daily calls to Nottingham and chasing them on my offer, I have now been told that my offer will not be issued unless the lawyer is on the Nottingham conveyancing panel. Can the lender hold off the offer?
Mortgage companies tend not to not issue a mortgage until they have details of a lawyer on their panel. It can take a few weeks for Nottingham to deal with your lawyer's application to be on the Nottingham conveyancing panel. There's no guarantee that your solicitor will be accepted.
My relative suggested that where I am purchasing in Nine Elms I should ask my conveyancer to perform a Neighbourhood, Planning and Local Amenity Search. Can you explain what the purpose of this search is?
This is a search is sometimes included in the estimate for your Nine Elms conveyancing searches. It is not a small report of more than thirty pages, listing and detailing significant information about Nine Elms around the property and the people living there. It incorporates an Aerial Photograph, Planning Applications, Land Use, Mobile Phone Masts, Rights of Way, the local Housing Market, Council Tax Banding, the demographics of People living in the area, the dominant type of Housing, the Average House Prices, Crime statistics, Local Education with maps and statistics, Local Amenities and other useful data regarding Nine Elms.
Are there restrictive covenants that are commonly picked up during conveyancing in Nine Elms?
Restrictive covenants can be picked up when reviewing land registry title as part of the legal transfer of property in Nine Elms. An 1874 stipulation that was seen was ‘The houses to be erected on the estate are each to be of a uniform elevation in accordance with the drawings to be prepared or approved by the vendor’s surveyor…’
I am purchasing my first flat in Nine Elms with a mortgage from Virgin Money. The builders would not budge the price so I negotiated 6k of fixtures and fittings instead. The property agent advised me not to tell my lawyer about this extras as it may affect my loan with the bank. Do I keep my lawyer in the dark?.
All lenders require a Disclosure of Incentives Form from the builder of any new build, converted or renovated property, It is available online from the Lenders’ Handbook page on the CML website. CML form is completed and handed to the lender's surveyor when the inspection is done.
Lenders have different policies on incentives. Some accept none at all, cash or physical, while others will accept cash incentives up to 5%.
Hard to understand why the representative of a builder would be suggesting you withold information from a solicitor when all this will be clearly visible on forms the builder has to supply to its solicitor, the buyer's solicitor and the surveyor.
I am looking to sell my property. My former conveyancers have shut. I would be grateful for any recommendation of a conveyancing firm. Im based in Nine Elms if that makes a difference.
You should use our search tool to help you choose a solicitor for your conveyancing in Nine Elms. We have connected thousands of home buyers and sellers with regulated solicitors to ensure that the legalities of their house move runs smoothly.