Willusing a Staindrop conveyancing practice make my purchase more efficient?
Staindrop is a unique place, where neighbourhood knowledge helps. The laid-back lifestyle has an upside – just not when it comes to your house move. The property lawyers that we list providing deep Staindrop knowledge with a proactive, can doapproach that helps everything runs smoothly. It is a distinct advantage where they benefit from well established relationships with financial advisers, local authorities, valuers and counterpart Staindrop conveyancing practices
I own a freehold property in Staindrop but still charged rent, why is this and what is this?
It is rare for properties in Staindrop and has limited impact for conveyancing in Staindrop but some freehold properties in England (particularly common in North West England) pay an annual sum known as a Chief Rent or a Rentcharge to a third party who has no other legal interest in the land.
Rentcharge payments are usually between £2.00 and £5.00 per year. Rentcharges date back many centuries, but the Rent Charge Act 1977 barred the generation of new rentcharges from 1977 onwards.
Old rentcharges can now be redeemed by making a one off payment under the Act. Any rentcharges that are still in existence after 2037 is to be extinguished.
A colleague suggested that where I am buying in Staindrop I should ask my conveyancer to carry out a Neighbourhood, Planning and Local Amenity Search. Can you explain what the purpose of this search is?
A search of this type is occasionally included in the estimate for your Staindrop conveyancing searches. It is not a small report of about 40 pages, listing and detailing significant information about Staindrop around the property and the people living there. It includes an Aerial Photograph, Planning Applications, Land Use, Mobile Phone Masts, Rights of Way, the Staindrop Housing Market, Council Tax Banding, the demographics of People living in the area, the dominant type of Housing, the Average House Prices, Crime statistics, Local Education with maps and statistics, Local Amenities and other useful data concerning Staindrop.
Are there restrictive covenants that are commonly picked up during conveyancing in Staindrop?
Covenants that are restrictive in nature can be picked up when reviewing land registry title as part of the legal transfer of property in Staindrop. An 1874 stipulation that was seen was ‘The houses to be erected on the estate are each to be of a uniform elevation in accordance with the drawings to be prepared or approved by the vendor’s surveyor…’
Yesterday I discovered that there is a flying freehold element on a house I put an offer in a fortnight ago in what should have been a simple, no chain conveyancing. Staindrop is where the house is located. Is there any advice you can give?
Flying freeholds in Staindrop are not the norm but are more likely to exist in relation to terraced houses. Even where you use a solicitor outside Staindrop you would need to get your solicitor to go through the deeds thoroughly. Your bank may require your conveyancing solicitor to take out an indemnity policy. Some of the more diligent conveyancing solicitors in Staindrop may determine that this is not enough and that the deeds be re-written to give you the most up to date legal protection. If so, the next door neighbour also had to sign up to the revised deeds.It is possible that your lender will not accept the situation so the sooner you find out the better. You should also check with your insurance broker as to whether they will insure a flying freehold property.
I need to instruct a conveyancing solicitor in Staindrop for my sale. Is there any facility to check a solicitor's complaints history with the profession’s regulator?
One may read published Solicitor Regulator Association (SRA) decisions resulting from investigations started on or after Jan 2008. Go to Check a solicitor's record. To find records Pre 2008, or to check a solicitors record, phone 0870 606 2555, 08.00 - 18.00 any week day save for Tuesday when lines open at 9.30am. For callers outside the UK, dial +44 (0)121 329 6800. The SRA could monitor call for training requirements.