I am looking for value for money property lawyer. Do I opt for a national conveyancer rather than a high street Ruislip conveyancing lawyer?
Ruislip is a special area, where local insight helps. The laid-back lifestyle has an upside – but not when it comes to your home move. The conveyancers that we recommend display wide Ruislip insight with a professional, can doattitude that helps everything runs smoothly. It is a distinct advantage if they enjoy well established relationships with financial advisers, local authorities, valuers and other Ruislip conveyancing practitioners
My son is buying a house that has just been built in Ruislip with a home loan from Lloyds. His conveyancer has advised him of a delay in completing the ‘Disclosure of Incentive Form’. What is this document - I have never come across this before?
The document is intended to provide information to the main parties engaged in the purchase. Therefore, it will be provided to your son’s lawyer who should be on the Lloyds conveyancing panel as a standard part of the process, and to the surveyor when requested. 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 Lloyds conveyancing panel solicitor as early as possible, in order to avoid any last minute delays, and no later than at exchange of contracts.
How up to date is your database of Ruislip solicitors on the Clydesdale conveyancing panel? Do Clydesdale send you an updated list?
Ruislip conveyancing firms themselves provide us confirmation that they are on the Clydesdale conveyancing panel as opposed to being supplied with a list from Clydesdale directly.
Will my conveyancing lawyers need to check that the building insurance for my purchase of a house in Ruislip. My lender is Nationwide Building Society
Nationwide Building Society have specific requirements as set out in the UK Finance Lenders’ Handbook. As of 23/3/2026, the requirements read as follows :
Over the last few months I have been searching for a leasehold apartment up to £245,000 and identified one round the corner in Ruislip I like with amenity areas and railway links nearby, the downside is that it's only got 51 years unexpired on the lease. There is not much else in Ruislip suitable, so just wondered if I would be making a grave error acquiring a lease with such few years left?
If you need a home loan the remaining unexpired lease term may be problematic. Reduce the offer by the amount the lease extension will cost if not already taken into account. If the current proprietor has owned the premises for at least twenty four months you could request that they start the process of the extension and pass it to you. You can add 90 years to the current lease term and have £0 ground rent by law. You should speak to your conveyancing lawyer regarding this.
My husband and I are novice buyers - agreed a price, yet the property agent told us that the seller will only move forward if we appoint the agent's chosen solicitors as they want a ‘quick sale’. My instinct tells me that we should use a family solicitor used to conveyancing in Ruislip
It is unlikely the sellers are driving this. Should the vendor want ‘a quick sale', turning down a motivated buyer is counter productive. Speak to the vendors direct and explain that (a)you are keen to buy (b)you are excited to move forward, with mortgage lined up © you are chain free (d) you wish to move quickly (e)but you intend to instruct your preferred Ruislip conveyancing firm - rather thanthe ones that will earn their negotiator at the agency a introducer fee or hit his conveyancing targets demanded by corporate headquarters.