We just had an offer accepted to buy with Earl Shilton BS. I visited a few local firms yet am unable to find a Queensbury conveyancing firm on the Earl Shilton BS approved list. Please you assist?
Feel free to take advantage of the search tool on this page. Please choose the mortgage company and type Queensbury or your location and you will discover numerous conveyancers based in Queensbury or nearest you.
My wife and I are in the throws of looking at flats in Queensbury and I am now considering a potential offer. Is it sensible to have my solicitor on ‘stand by’? I am planning to take a mortgage with Barclays.
You should start obtaining conveyancing estimates from solicitors ASAP. Once you decide who you want to use and once your offer is accepted you can instruct them to work for you and pass their details on to the EA. As you are getting a mortgage with Barclays, make sure you remember to check that your lawyer is on the Barclays conveyancing panel.
I am currently in the process of buying my council flat in Queensbury. I have a mortgage agreed with Virgin Money. Conveyancing is new to me. Can I proceed without a solicitor easily? I think we can but we keep being told I should have one. Any advice?
It is not advisable to proceed with a house purchase without a solicitor. The council's solicitor are not acting for you. You need a solicitor for a number reasons. One of which is to verify what plans the Council have for repairs and refurbishment for the next five years. Many leaseholders have been stung for contributions of thousands of pounds. In any event, if you are getting a mortgage with Virgin Money, you will need to appoint a solicitor on the Virgin Money conveyancing panel.
After weeks of negotiation I have agreed a price on an apartment in Queensbury. My mortgage broker suggested a conveyancing practitioner. I paid an on account payment of £175. A few days later, the conveyancing practitioner called me embarrassingly acknowledging that they were not on the Bank of Ireland 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 Bank of Ireland 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.
A friend suggested that if I am buying in Queensbury I should ask my conveyancer to perform a Neighbourhood, Planning and Local Amenity Search. What does it cover?
This is a search is usually included in the estimate for your Queensbury conveyancing searches. It is not a small report of more than thirty pages, listing and setting out important information about Queensbury 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, Queensbury Education with maps and statistics, Local Amenities and other useful data concerning Queensbury.
I used Stirling Law a few years past for my conveyancing in Queensbury. Now, I need the documents but the law firm is no longer operating. What do I do?
Do 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 Queensbury of the conveyancing firm of solicitors you previously instructed, the name of conveyancing solicitor with whom you had dealings, and the date on which you last had dealings with the firm.
Are there any apps to assist me to identify a Queensbury law firm on the HSBC Bank conveyancing panel? I have a car and am willing to travel upto 10miles to meet the conveyancer.
You can use the search on this page. Please pick a bank and your location and you will see a number of Queensbury conveyancing lawyers located nearest you. We have detailed some Queensbury conveyancing firms towards the end of this page and you can ring them to see if they are on the HSBC Bank approved list
Myself and my wife have just had an offer agreed on a flat and had an appointment on Tuesday with Leeds Building Society for the mortgage. They advised me that when it comes to appointing a conveyancing practitioner that if they are not on their approved panel of conveyancing practitioners then we will be subject to an an extra fee of £250+. This is is due to the fact that they would then have to select a property lawyer to act for them in addition to the one we appoint on our behalf and we assume responsibility for their costs. I have asked Leeds Building Society to provide me with a list so I can request estimates only from their approved solicitors but was told they dont have such a list to hand over. What would be the best way of going about this?
Ask Leeds Building Society what their panel criteria is for a conveyancer.Thereafter ask the lawyer of your choice whether they meet the criteria and have they acted on loans for Leeds Building Society historically. If the answer to those is yes, then just clarify this with Leeds Building Society. Alternatively please utilise our search facility and we should be able to find you a conveyancing practitioner in Queensbury on the approved list for Leeds Building Society.