We are a couple about to sign contracts for a ground floor flat in South Petherton and Lambrook. We have hit a stumbling block. The mortgage offer with Barnsley Building Society runs out on 13/11/2026 but the owners are suggesting a completion date of 17/11/2026. Can one extend the loan expiry date?
The person best placed to deal with your issue is your solicitors who will hopefully assess whether he or she is better off negotiating with the bank, vendor’s solicitors, property agents or possibly all parties based on the circumstances your conveyancing as of today.
My grandmother passed away six months ago and as sole heir and executor I was left the property in South Petherton and Lambrook. The house had a small mortgage left on it of around £4500. I want to have the title changed into my name whilst I re-mortgage to Santander, pay off the mortgage. Is this possible?
Where you intend to re-mortgage then Santander will require that you use a conveyancer on the Santander conveyancing panel. Here is link to the Land Registry online guidance around what to do when a property owner dies. This will help you to understand the registration process behind changing the details re the registered title. in your case it would appear that you are effectively purchasing the property from the estate. Your Santander conveyancing panel solicitor pays the new mortgage money into the estate, the estate pays off the old mortgage, the charge is released and you become the owner and the Santander mortgage is registered as a charge at the Land Registry.
I used Stirling Law a few years past for my conveyancing in South Petherton and Lambrook. Now, I need the documents but the law firm is no longer operating. What do I do?
You should call 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 South Petherton and Lambrook of the conveyancing firm of solicitors you previously retained, the name of conveyancing solicitor with whom you had dealings, and the date on which you last had dealings with the firm.
Just had an offer accepted on a new build apartment in South Petherton and Lambrook. Conveyancing is a frightening process 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.
Set out below are examples of a few leasehold new build enquiries that you may expect your new-build leasehold conveyancing in South Petherton and Lambrook
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The Vendor must covenant to keep unsold units in good repair until long leases are granted therefore. 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. Has the Lease plan been approved by the Land Registry and if not when will they be lodged for this purpose? Where service of notices and proceedings can be at the property demised please confirm that this can be amended to include simultaneous services at the Lessees’ solicitors’ offices where the Lessee from time to time is not resident in the UK - such solicitors may be varied by notice in writing to the Landlord from time to time but otherwise will be as previously specified.
I want to let out my leasehold flat in South Petherton and Lambrook. Conveyancing solicitor who did the purchase is retired - so can't ask her. Is permission from the freeholder required?
Even though your last South Petherton and Lambrook conveyancing lawyer is no longer available you can check your lease to check if you are permitted to let out the premises. The accepted inference is that if the deeds are silent, subletting is permitted. Quite often there is a prerequisite that you must obtain consent via your landlord or some other party prior to subletting. This means you not allowed to sublet without first obtaining consent. The consent is not allowed to be unreasonably refused ore delayed. If your lease prohibits you from subletting the property you will need to ask your landlord if they are willing to waive this restriction.
South Petherton and Lambrook Conveyancing for Leasehold Flats - Examples of Queries before buying
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Plenty South Petherton and Lambrook leasehold properties will be liable to pay a service bill for the upkeep of the building levied on behalf of the freeholder. If you acquire the flat you will have to meet this amount, normally periodically throughout the year. This could be anything from two or three hundred pounds to thousands of pounds for bigger purpose-built blocks. In all probability there will be a ground rent to be met annual, normally this is not a large figure, say about £25-£75 but you need to enquire as occasionally it can be many hundreds of pounds. Can you tell me if there are any major works in the near future that will add a premium to the service costs? How is the lease structured?
The property lawyers carrying out our conveyancing in South Petherton and Lambrook has sent papers to review that indicate that the land is unregistered with epitome documents. How can it be that the property not yet recorded at the Land Registry?
Whilst most properties in South Petherton and Lambrook are now registered with the Land Registry there are still some that are unregistered. Any property in South Petherton and Lambrook that has been purchased since the late 1980’s will have been registered at the Land Registry under the compulsory ‘first registration’ scheme. However, if a South Petherton and Lambrook property has not changed hands in that time then it’s likely the old fashioned title deeds will be the only evidence of ownership.Many South Petherton and Lambrook conveyancing lawyers will be familiar with this type of conveyancing but in the event that uncertainty prevails the standard advice presently seems to be for the seller to address the registration formalities first and then sell - this this chain of events will result in a drawn-out home move.