My best friend’s step-father is a property lawyer. I hope that I can be offered friends and family rates for conveyancing, but if not, what kind of fees should I be expecting for conveyancing in Northumberland Heath?
It’s prudent to request 3 or more like-for-like conveyancing estimates. Do use our search tool on this page. Whilst fees may vary but service levels do differ between property lawyers as is the case with most professions.
My colleague advised me that if I am buying in Northumberland Heath I should ask my conveyancer to execute 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 Northumberland Heath conveyancing searches. It is not a small report of more than thirty pages, listing and detailing important information about Northumberland Heath around the property and the people living there. It incorporates an Aerial Photograph, Planning Applications, Land Use, Mobile Phone Masts, Rights of Way, the Northumberland Heath Housing Market, Council Tax Banding, the type of People living in the area, the dominant type of Housing, the Average Property Price, Crime statistics, Local Education with maps and statistics, Local Amenities and other useful information about Northumberland Heath.
I used Action Conveyancing a few years ago for my conveyancing in Northumberland Heath. I now require my file but the law firm has closed. What do I do?
You should contact the Solicitors Regulatory Authority (SRA) to help locate your conveyancing files. They can be contacted on please contact on 0870 606 2555. Alternatively, you should use their online form to make an enquiry. You will need to provide the SRA with as much information as possible to assist their search, including the name and address in Northumberland Heath of the conveyancing firm of solicitors you previously used, the name of conveyancing solicitor with whom you had dealings, and the date on which you last had dealings with the firm.
Over the last few months I have been searching for a flat up to £235,500 and found one near me in Northumberland Heath I like with amenity areas and station in the vicinity, the downside is that it only has 49 remaining years left on the lease. There is not much else in Northumberland Heath in this price bracket, so just wondered if I would be making a grave error acquiring a lease with such few years left?
Should you need a mortgage that many years will likely be an issue. Discount the offer by the expected 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 start the process of the extension and then assign it to you. You can add 90 years to the current lease with a zero ground rent applied. You should consult your conveyancing lawyer concerning this.
Is it possible to swap solicitor as I have to retain one who is on the Lloyds TSB Bank conveyancing list. I instructed a family conveyancing solicitor in Northumberland Heath round the corner but the firm is not accepted by Lloyds TSB Bank
We will our best to assist in finding you a conveyancing solicitor in Northumberland Heath on the Lloyds TSB Bank panel. Please note that the conveyancers that we list do not pay us a referral fee if you instruct them and are fully regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority who oversee all conveyancing solicitors in Northumberland Heath. In utilising the find a conveyancing solicitor tool on this website, you can scrutinise costs for conveyancing solicitors in Northumberland Heath and throughout England and Wales.
Our conveyancer has advised that he intends to complete and exchange simultaneously on the sale of our £125,000 apartment in Northumberland Heath next week. The landlords agents has quoted £360 for Landlord’s certificate, building insurance schedule and previous years statements of service charge. Is it legal for a freeholder to charge an administration fee for a leasehold conveyance in Northumberland Heath?
Northumberland Heath conveyancing on leasehold flats often necessitates the buyer’s solicitor sending questions for the landlord to address. Although the landlord is not legally bound to address such questions most will be content to assist. They are at liberty to levy a reasonable charge for responding to questions or supplying documentation. There is no set fee. The average fee for the information that you are referring to is £350, in some transactions it is in excess of £800. The management information fee levied by the landlord must be sent together with a synopsis of rights and obligations in respect of administration fees, without which the invoice is not strictly payable. In reality one has little choice but to pay whatever is requested of you if you want to sell the property.
After years of dialogue we cannot agree with our landlord on how much the lease extension should cost for our flat in Northumberland Heath. Does the Leasehold Valuation Tribunal have jurisdiction to calculate the appropriate figures?
Where there is a missing landlord or where there is dispute about the premium for a lease extension, under the relevant statutes you can apply to the First-tier Tribunal (Property Chamber) to judgment on the premium.
An example of a Lease Extension case for a Northumberland Heath premises is Various @ Colombus Square in January 2012. the Tribunal calculated the premiums to be paid for new leases for each of the flats in Mariners Walk to be £3822 and the premium to be paid for the new lease of 2 Knights Court to be £4439. This case was in relation to 13 flats. The unexpired term was 76 years.