What can a local search tell me regarding the property we're buying in Southall?
Southall conveyancing often starts with the submitting local authority searches directly from your local Authority or through a personal search company for instance Xpress Legal The local search is essential in every Southall conveyancing purchase; that is if you don’t want any nasty once you have moved into your property. The search will reveal data on, amongst other things, details on planning applications relevant to the property (whether granted or refused), building control history, any enforcement action, restrictions on permitted development, nearby road schemes, contaminated land and radon gas; in all a total of thirteen subject headings.
My wife and I own a renovated Edwardian house in Southall. Conveyancing lawyer represented me and Barclays . I did a free Land Registry search last week and I saw a couple of entries: one for freehold, another for leasehold under the matching address. Is it worth asking Barclays to clarify?
You need to assess the Freehold register you have again and check the Charges Register for mention of a lease. The best way to be sure that you are also the registered proprietor of the leasehold and freehold title as well is to check (£3). It is not completely unheard of in Southall and other locations in the country and poses no real issues for owners other than when they sell they have to account for both freehold and leasehold interests when dealing with purchasers. You can also question the position with your conveyancing solicitor who carried out the work.
About to purchase a new build apartment in Southall. 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 conveyancing.
Set out below is a sample of a selection of leasehold new build enquiries that you should expect your new-build leasehold conveyancing in Southall
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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. If there are lifts in the building, please confirm that the owners of flats on the ground and basement floors will not be required to contribute towards the cost of maintenance and renewal. Has the Lease plan been approved by the Land Registry and if not when will they be lodged for this purpose? 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.
I am a sole trader wishing to take over a lease of an office on a shopping parade. Can you recommend conveyancers offering competitive fees for non-domestic conveyancing in Southall for under £2000?
We can recommend firms who have specialist knowledge of commercial conveyancing in Southall, including the disposal and acquisition of businesses as well as simply property. If you are looking to acquire or lease a shop, pub, restaurant, office, retail premises or a complete business we can put you in touch with the right lawyer. As for the charges these will vary based on the structure and complexity of the deal. Let us have your contact information or email so as to enable us to furnish you with a detailed commercial conveyancing quote.
We're novice buyers - had an offer accepted, yet the selling agent told us that the vendor will only proceed if we instruct the agent's recommended lawyers as they are insisting on an ‘expedited deal’. My instinct tells me that we should use a local solicitor with experience of conveyancing in Southall
It is improbable the vendors are driving this. If they desire ‘a quick sale', taking such a hostile approach to a serious buyer is going to damage their objectives. Speak to the vendors direct and explain that (a)you are keen to buy (b)you are excited to move forward, with finances arranged © you are unencumbered (d) you intend to proceed fast (e)however you will continue to appoint your own,trusted Southall conveyancing solicitors - not the ones that will give the estate agent a introducer fee or hit his conveyancing targets set by corporate headquarters.
I acquired a flat in Southall last 11/11/2024 and to date it is still not recorded with HM Land Registry. It is part of a development site and my lawyer told me that it can take 12 months to register. I have called the Land Registry directly and they say that the original application was cancelled due to failure to reply to requisitions. What can I do?
It is your conveyancing practitioner that you should turn to here in order to satisfy any concerns which have been raised as part of the registration process for your Southall property. Normal Southall conveyancing practice includes an undertaking on the part of the vendor’s lawyer that they will help resolve any registration raised by HMLR so it may be a case of taking action to enforce that undertaking if necessary.