My son is buying a house that has just been built in Romsey with a mortgage from UBS. His lawyer has advised him of a delay in completing the ‘Disclosure of Incentive Form’. Who needs to receive the form?
The document is intended to provide information to the main parties involved in the transaction. Therefore, it will be provided to your son’s lawyer who should be on the UBS conveyancing panel as a standard part of the process, and to the surveyor when asked. The developer will be required to start the process by downloading the form and completing it. The form will therefore need to be available for the valuer at the time of his or her site visit. The form should be sent to the UBS conveyancing panel solicitor as early as possible, in order to avoid any last minute delays, and no later than at exchange of contracts.
We are selling our home in Romsey and the buyers lawyers are claiming that there is a possibility that the property was built land that was not decontaminated. A high street Romsey conveyancer would know that there is no such problem. It does beg the question why the purchasers are using a national conveyancing practice rather than a conveyancing solicitor in Romsey. Having lived in Romsey for three years we know of no issue. Should we get in touch with our local Authority to get confirmation that there is no issue.
It would appear that you have a conveyancing solicitor currently acting for you. What do they say? You must check with your lawyer before you do anything. It is very possible that once the local authority has been informed of a potential issue it cannot be insured against (a bit like being diagnosed with a serious illness and then taking out health insurance to cover that same illness)
Are there restrictive covenants that are commonly identified as part of conveyancing in Romsey?
Restrictive covenants can be picked up when reviewing land registry title as part of the process of conveyancing in Romsey. 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…’
Taking into account that I will soon part with over three hundred thousand on a garden flat in Romsey I wish to have a conversation with the solicitor about myhouse move in advance of giving the go ahead to the firm. Is this something that you can arrange?
Absolutely - we would be delighted to talk to you we do not take any clients on without you liaising with the lawyer due to be doing your conveyancing in Romsey.There is no ‘factory style conveyancing’ - every client is an important individual, not a case number. The law firms that we put you in touch with believe that the figure you are calculated and presented to you for residential conveyancing in Romsey should be the amount on the final invoice that you are charged.
Helen (my wife) and I may need to rent out our Romsey ground floor flat for a while due to a new job. We instructed a Romsey conveyancing practice in 2001 but they have closed and we did not have the foresight to get any advice as to whether the lease prohibits the subletting of the flat. How do we find out?
A small minority of properties in Romsey do contain a provision to say that subletting is only allowed with permission. The landlord is not entitled to unreasonably refuse but, in such cases, they would need to review references. Experience dictates that problems are usually caused by unsatisfactory tenants rather than owner-occupiers and for that reason you can expect the freeholder to take up the references and consider them carefully before granting permission.
Romsey Conveyancing for Leasehold Flats - A selection of Queries Prior to buying
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How many of the leaseholders are in arrears for their maintenance charge payments? Does the lease contain onerous restrictions? On the whole the cost for major works tend not to be included within service charges, albeit that some managing agents in Romsey require tenants to contribute towards a reserve fund and this is used to offset against major works.
We are in the process of purchasing a apartment in Romsey. Conveyancing is not over but we wish to keep the amount we are are buying for a secret from sites such as Nestoria. Is this achievable and how?
The Land Registry are legally required to specify price sold information on the official title for domestic properties countrywide including properties in Romsey. The Title Register is an open document, so the Land Registry would be breaching their statutory duty if they did not permit access to the register.
You can make a request of the Land Registry to hide the price paid entry however the answer will be a No.