My lender has recommended solicitors on their panel based in Silvertown but I would rather use a conveyancing lawyer in Silvertown or nearer to where I live. Are you able to help?
The minority of Silvertown conveyancing solicitors are on all banks conveyancing panel. Use our search tool to identify a Silvertown conveyancing conveyancer on the on the bank panel.
I am helping my aunt sell her house in Silvertown. Does the conveyancer order an EPC or it is for me to coordinate?
After the demise of Home Packs, energy assessments was maintained a required part of moving property. An EPC should be to hand in advance of the property being put on the market. It is not something that conveyancers normally organise. Where you are instructing a Silvertown conveyancing practitioner they might be able to arrange energy performance certificates due to their contacts with long established Silvertown providers
I am purchasing a detached bungalow in Silvertown. The intention is to convert the garage to a playroom at the property.Will the conveyancing process include enquiries to ascertain if these alterations are allowed?
Your solicitor will check the registered title as conveyancing in Silvertown will on occasion reveal restrictions in the title deeds which prohibit certain changes or necessitated the permission of a 3rd party. Certain extensions need local authority planning consent and approval in compliance with building regulations. Certain locations are designated conservation areas and special planning restrictions apply which often prevent or affect extensions. It would be prudent to check these issues with a surveyor prior to committing yourself to a purchase.
We had appointed solicitors based in Silvertown on the TSB solicitor panel. They are now charging me an additional fee for dealing with the TSB mortgage. Is this an additional conveyancing fee set by TSB?
Unfortunately, so long as it is in their Terms and Conditions or estimate then yes your solicitor can levy a fee for this. The charge is not set by TSB but by your Silvertown solicitor. Plenty of firms on the TSB panel will charge ’dealing with mortgage’ fee but some practices include it on their overall fee.
I am buying a new build apartment in Silvertown. Conveyancing is necessary evil at the best of times but I have never purchased a new build flat before. Can you give me some examples of some of the questions asked in new build legal work.
Here is a sample of a few leasehold new build enquiries that you may expect your new-build leasehold conveyancing in Silvertown
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Has the Lease plan been approved by the Land Registry and if not when will they be lodged for this purpose? Please supply a car parking plan. Where there is an Undertaking being granted there is the risk of forfeiture of the Headlease subject to relief if one or more of the Underlessees are willing to accept the original Head Lessee’s obligations as otherwise relief will be denied to the Underlessees. The only alternatives are the Head Lessor agreeing not to forfeit the Headlease or the Head Lessee guaranteeing to the Underlessees that it will not be in breach of the Headlease. Please confirm the Lease plans are surveyor prepared.
Is it possible to swap conveyancer as I have to choose a firm on the National Westminster Bank conveyancing list. I had appointed a high street conveyancing solicitor in Silvertown round the corner but he is not accepted by National Westminster Bank
We will our best to assist in finding you a conveyancing solicitor in Silvertown on the National Westminster Bank panel. Please note that the property lawyers that we on the directory do not pay us commission if you instruct them and are fully regulated by the SRA who oversee all conveyancing solicitors in Silvertown. In utilising the find a conveyancing solicitor tool on this site, you can compare and instruct different solicitors and conveyancers both nationally and in Silvertown.
My wife and I purchased a leasehold house in Silvertown. Conveyancing and Aldermore mortgage organised. A letter has just been received from someone saying they have taken over the reversionary interest in the property. Attached was a demand for arrears of ground rent dating back to 1997. The conveyancing practitioner in Silvertown who previously acted has now retired. Any advice?
First make enquiries of the Land Registry to make sure that the individual claiming to own the freehold is indeed the new freeholder. It is not necessary to instruct a Silvertown conveyancing firm to do this as you can do this on the Land Registry website for less than a fiver. You should note that in any event, even if this is the legitimate landlord, under the Limitation Act 1980 the limitation period for recovery of ground rent is six years.
I have had difficulty in trying to purchase the freehold in Silvertown. Can the Leasehold Valuation Tribunal adjudicate on premiums?
You certainly can. We can put you in touch with a Silvertown conveyancing firm who can help.
An example of a Lease Extension decision for a Silvertown premises is 46 Credon Road in January 2014. On 11 September 2013 Deputy District Judge Price sitting at the Bow County Court made a vesting order that the freeholder surrender his lease and be granted a new lease of the Premises on such terms as may be determined by the First Tier Tribunal (Property Chamber).The appropriate sum as concluded by the Tribunal was £7225 This case affected 1 flat. The unexpired term as at the valuation date was 69.77 years.
My solicitors in Silvertown have advised me that they can not locate my conveyancing file. To assist with my purchase I took out a mortgage with the mortgage company. Is it case that being on the bank conveyancing panel they need to have retained the file for a prescribed period?
Different lenders have different requirements but many of the Terms and Conditions of Conveyancing Panel Appointment require the file to be held for a period of 6 years. That being said we have not seen a copy of the bank Conveyancing Panel Terms. It might be worth you contacting the lender directly.