Having sold my house in South Wimbledon last April yet the purchaser is whats apping me to say his solicitor needs to hear from mine. What should have happened now that I have sold?
Post completion of your house sale your conveyancer should deliver the transfer deeds and all supplemental paperwork to the buyer’s conveyancer. Depending on the transaction, your conveyancer should also evidence that the legal charge in favour of the lender has been redeemed to the purchasers conveyancers. There is unlikely to be post completion formalities peculiar conveyancing in South Wimbledon.
I am buying a flat and need a conveyancing solicitor in South Wimbledon who is on the Aldermore approved. Can you recommend a local firm?
Our service is limited to being a directory service for firms who wish to listed as being on the approved conveyancing panel for Aldermore in certain locations such as South Wimbledon. We dont recommend any particular firm.
My wife and I are in the process of looking at flats in South Wimbledon and I am now considering a potential offer. Should I already have a property lawyer in place at this stage? I intend to finance via a home loan with UBS.
You should start obtaining conveyancing quotes from solicitors ASAP. After you have chosen your lawyer and once your offer is accepted you can instruct them to work for you and pass their contact information on to the estate agent. As you are getting a mortgage with UBS, make sure you remember to check that your lawyer is on the UBS conveyancing panel.
I recently had an offer accepted on an apartment in South Wimbledon. My mortgage broker recommended their conveyancers. I paid an on account payment of £175. Not long after, the lawyer contacted me sheepishly admitting that they were not on the Kent Reliance conveyancing panel. Am I right in thinking that I should be due a refund?
You should be able to recover this from the law firm if they were not on the Kent Reliance panel. They should have asked at the outset which lender you were obtaining a mortgage with. An important lesson to readers of this site is to check that the lawyers are on the appropriate lender panel.
Our offer on a property in South Wimbledon has been accepted, the owners do nevertheless have an associated purchase. The vendors have offered on a flat, but it’s not yet tied up, and have viewings of other properties booked. I have instructed a local conveyancing solicitor in South Wimbledon. What should be my next step? When should I get the mortgage application with Nationwide started?
It is understandable to have apprehensions where there is a chain as you are unlikely to want to incur expenses prematurely (home loan application is in the region of one thousand pounds, then survey, South Wimbledon conveyancing search charges, etc). The first thing to do is ensure that your lawyer is on the Nationwide conveyancing panel. As to the subsequent steps this very much dictated by the circumstances of your case, desire for the property and on the state of the market. During a hot market many home buyers would apply for a home loan with Nationwide and pay for the valuation and only if it was satisfactory would they request their conveyancing practitioner to move forward with searches.
The deeds to our home can not be found. The conveyancers who did the conveyancing in South Wimbledon 5 years ago no longer exist. What do I do?
Assuming you have a registered title the details of your proprietorship will be recorded by the Land Registry with a Title Number. It is possible to conduct a search at the Land Registry, identify your property and secure up to date copies of the property title for a small fee. Where the property is Leasehold then the Land Registry will in most cases hold a file copy of the Registered Lease and again, a copy can be ordered for a small fee.
Is it possible to switch solicitor as I need to select one who is on the Norwich and Peterborough Building Society conveyancing list. I was using a local conveyancing solicitor in South Wimbledon five minutes from me but he is not accepted by Norwich and Peterborough Building Society
We will our best to assist in finding you a conveyancing solicitor in South Wimbledon on the Norwich and Peterborough Building Society panel. Please note that the conveyancers that we on the directory do not pay us commission if you instruct them and are authorised and regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority who oversee all conveyancing solicitors in South Wimbledon. In utilising search facility on this website, you can contrast charges for conveyancing solicitors in South Wimbledon and beyond.
What can I expect to pay for conveyancing in South Wimbledon?
The amount you are levied for South Wimbledon conveyancing costs are likely to be calculated at:
- a standard charge; or
- on a time spent basis (i.e. the time spent on the particular case).
In practice very few South Wimbledon conveyancing solicitors invoice on an hourly basis