Having sold my house in St Helier last September but our buyer keeps telephoning daily complaining that his lawyer is waiting to hear from mine. What are the post completion sale formalities now that I have sold?
Post completion of your sale your solicitor should deliver the transfer documentation and all supplemental paperwork to the buyer’s solicitors. Depending on the transaction, your conveyancer should also confirm that the home loan has been paid off to the purchasers conveyancers. There are no post completion tasks unique to conveyancing in St Helier.
I have 7378 less than 75 years left on my lease and need a lease extension for my flat in St Helier. Conveyancing solicitors on the Virgin panel can deal with such extensions right?
Most leasehold conveyancing experts should be able to deal with a lease extension. if you are obtaining a mortgage then your lender may insist that the lease be extended before competition. Virgin have specific requirements as set out in the UK Finance Lenders’ Handbook in relation to minimum unexpired lease terms. As of 30/8/2026 the requirements read as follows :
My solicitor has informed me that lack of right of way insurance is needed on my purchase. What is the typical level of cover needed for conveyancing in St Helier?
The appropriate level of lack of right of way indemnity insurance should be dictated by who who your lender is. It would differ for example between Birmingham Midshires and Barnsley Building Society. Conveyancing practitioners as opposed to borrowers take out such policies.
When it comes to mortgage companies such as Leeds Building Society, do St Helier property lawyers face a fee to be on the list of approved solicitors?
We are unaware of any mortgage company fees to be on their list of approved firms, although some do charge an administration fee to deal with the processing of the conveyancing panel application.
We previously chose solicitors located in St Helier on the Santander solicitor panel. They have just billed me a separate amount for dealing with the Santander mortgage. Is this an additional conveyancing fee specified by Santander?
Unfortunately, so long as it is in their Terms and Conditions or Quote then yes your lawyer can levy a fee for this. This fee is not dictated by Santander but by your St Helier solicitor. Some firms on the Santander panel will levy an ‘acting for lender’ fee and others do not.
In my capacity as executor for the estate of my grandmother I am selling a residence in Cardiff but reside in St Helier. My lawyer (based 250 kilometers awayneeds me to sign a statutory declaration before the transaction finalising. Can you recommend a conveyancing practitioner in St Helier who can witness this legal document for me?
strictly speaking you are not likely to need to have the documents witnessed by a conveyancing solicitor. Ordinarily any notary public or solicitor will do regardless of whether they are St Helier based
I only have Seventy years unexpired on my lease in St Helier. I now wish to get lease extension but my freeholder is missing. What are my options?
If you qualify, under the Leasehold Reform, Housing and Urban Development Act 1993 you can apply to the County Court for an order to dispense with the service of the initial notice. This will enable the lease to be extended by the Court. However, you will be required to demonstrate that you have made all reasonable attempts to find the freeholder. For most situations a specialist should be helpful to try and locate and prepare a report to be used as proof that the freeholder can not be located. It is wise to seek advice from a solicitor in relation to proving the landlord’s disappearance and the application to the County Court covering St Helier.
I am the registered owner of a a ground floor purpose built flat in St Helier. In the absence of agreement between myself and the landlord, can the Leasehold valuation Tribunal determine the sum payable for a lease extension?
in cases where there is a missing freeholder or if there is disagreement about what the lease extension should cost, under the Leasehold Reform, Housing and Urban Development Act 1993 you can apply to the LVT to calculate the premium.
An example of a Freehold Enfranchisement case for a St Helier residence is Buchanan Court 39 Vernon Road in April 2010. the Tribunal assessed that the premium payable for the freehold of the block should be £44,000. This case was in relation to 2 flats. The unexpired lease term was 66.67 years.
My partner and I are buying a 2 bedroom flat in St Helier. At the time of instructing our conveyancing practitioner, they said that they were on all mainstream bank panels. Our mortgage broker emailed just now to advise that they are not on the Barclays approved list. If it turns out to be true, what should we do? Should we just find a different lawyer that is on their panel or do we pay for dual representation, with Barclays selecting their own approved conveyancing practitioner.
Where you are purchasing a property with the assistance of a mortgage it is conventional for the purchaser’s solicitors to also represent the mortgage company. In order to act for a bank or building society a conveyancer has to be on that lender's conveyancing panel. An application has to be made by the conveyancer to the lender to become a member of the lender's panel and there are increasingly strict criteria which the lawyer has to satisfy. Some banks now require their panel members to be part of the Law Society’s Conveyancing Quality Scheme. Your conveyancing practitioner should contact Barclays and see if they can apply for membership of their conveyancing panel, but if that is not viable they will instruct their own lawyers to represent them. You are not legally obliged to appoint a law firm on Barclays's conveyancing panel as you are at liberty to use your preferred St Helier lawyers, in which case it will likely add costs, and it will likely delay the transaction as you have another set of people involved.