My partner and I are hoping to buy a flat in Sandown and have instructed a Sandown conveyancing firm. Within the past 48 hours our conveyancer has sent a preliminary report and documents to look through with a view to exchanging next week. Santander have this afternoon contacted us to advise us that they have now hit a problem as our Sandown lawyer is not on their conveyancing panel. Please explain?
When purchasing a property with the benefit of a mortgage it is conventional for the purchasers' lawyers to also represent the purchaser's lender. In order to act for a bank or building society a law firm has to be on that lender's conveyancing panel. An application has to be made by the law firm to the lender to become a member of the lender's panel and there are increasingly strict criteria which the firm has to satisfy and indeed some lenders now require their panel members to be part of the Law Society’s Conveyancing Quality Scheme. Your property lawyer should contact your mortgage company and see if they can apply for membership of their conveyancing panel, but if that is not viable they will instruct their own solicitors to act. You don't have to instruct a firm on the lender’s conveyancing panel as you are at liberty to use your preferred Sandown lawyers, in which case it will likely add costs, and it may delay matters as you have another set of people involved.
At what point can the exchange of contracts take place for sale conveyancing in Sandown and am I required to be at the conveyancers office?
If you are in close proximity to one of the conveyancing solicitors in Sandown you are invited in to sign contracts. That being said, the firms we work with supply countrywide coverage for conveyancing and provide just as detailed and professional a job for you when dealing with you by post or email. The signing of the purchase agreement is not when everything is set in stone. Signing on the dotted line simply enables the solicitor to exchange contracts when the time is right, which will usually be very shortly after signing. The exchange process is is usually a five minute process, although where a long "chain" is in the mix, since the process requires the relevant party's solicitor (not necessarily a conveyancing solicitor in Sandown)to be in the office at the appropriate time.
A friend suggested that where I am purchasing in Sandown I should carry out a Neighbourhood, Planning and Local Amenity Search. Can you explain what the purpose of this search is?
A search of this type is occasionally included in the estimate for your Sandown conveyancing searches. It is not a small document of about 40 pages, listing and detailing important information about Sandown around the property and the people living there. It incorporates an Aerial Photograph, Planning Applications, Land Use, Mobile Phone Masts, Rights of Way, the Sandown Housing Market, Council Tax Banding, the type of People living in the area, the dominant type of Housing, the Average House Prices, Crime details, Local Education with maps and statistics, Local Amenities and other useful information concerning Sandown.
Over the last few months I have been searching for a ground for flat up to £305k and found one round the corner in Sandown I like with open areas and railway links in the vicinity, the downside is that it's only got 49 years on the lease. I can't really find anything else in Sandown in this price bracket, so just wondered if I would be making a mistake purchasing a short lease?
If you need a home loan the shortness of the lease may be an issue. Reduce the price by the anticipated lease extension will cost if not already taken into account. If the current owner has owned the premises for a minimum of twenty four months you could ask them to commence the lease extension formalities and pass it to you. An additional ninety years can be extended on to the existing lease and have £0 ground rent by law. You should speak to your conveyancing lawyer concerning this.
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We're first time buyers - had an offer accepted, but the agent advised that the vendor will only move forward if we instruct their chosen solicitors as they are insisting on a ‘quick sale’. My instinct tells me that we should use a local solicitor used to conveyancing in Sandown
We suspect that the owner is not behind this requirement. If they want ‘a quick sale', alienating a motivated purchaser is counter productive. Contact the vendors directly and explain that (a)you are motivated purchasers (b)you are excited to move forward, with finances arranged © you have nothing to sell (d) you intend to proceed fast (e)however you will continue to use your preferred Sandown conveyancing lawyers - as opposed tothe ones that will provide their negotiator at the agency a referral fee or achieve conveyancing targets pre-set by HQ.