Why do I have to pay up front when it comes to conveyancing in Stoke Poges?
Where you are retaining lawyers for conveyancing in Stoke Poges your lawyer will ask you place them with funds to cover the search fees. Ordinarily this is asked for to cover the fees of the conveyancing searches. If any deposit is as part of the total price then this will be needed immediately before exchange of contracts. Any further balance that is due should be sent to your lawyer a couple of days ahead of the day of completion.
Our bank has suggested solicitors on their panel based in Stoke Poges but I would rather choose a conveyancing lawyer in Stoke Poges round the corner to me. Can you assist?
Far from all Stoke Poges conveyancing firms are on all banks conveyancing panel. Do make the most of the above search tool to find a Stoke Poges conveyancing firm on the on the lender panel.
We are buying a apartment in Stoke Poges. I might seem paranoid but how we can trust a lawyer? At some point we have to deposit money into their account. What is the protection we have from them run away with our deposit?
Be assured that all money in a Solicitors client account is 100% safe, and even if your Solicitor ran off with it, the Law Society would reimburse you fully.
Forgive me if this question is silly but I am wet behind the ears as a 1st time purchaser of a garden flat in Stoke Poges. Do I receive the keys to the house on the completion date from my conveyancer? If this is the case, I will use a High Street conveyancing solicitor in Stoke Poges?
There is no need to visit the lawyers office on the day of completion. Conveyancing lawyers for you will electronically transfer the completion advance to the owner’s lawyers, and shortly after the monies have arrived, you will be able to receive the keys from the Estate Agents and start moving into the property. This tends to happen early afternoon.
Two weeks ago we had a mortgage agreed in principle with Barclays. Stoke Poges conveyancing solicitors were instructed. What is the average time that one could expect to receive a mortgage offer from Barclays?
There is no definitive answer here. Have Barclays done the survey? Have you informed Barclays as to your lawyers' details and checked that your lawyers are on the Barclays conveyancing panel? It is not unusual for a mortgage offer to take a month to come through.
I used Stirling Law a few years ago for my conveyancing in Stoke Poges. Now, I need my files but the law firm has closed. What do I do?
Do call the Solicitors Regulatory Authority (SRA) to assist in tracing 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 Stoke Poges of the conveyancing firm of solicitors you previously instructed, 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 flat in Stoke Poges. Conveyancing is necessary evil 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 few leasehold new build enquiries that you can expect your new-build leasehold conveyancing in Stoke Poges
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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. Forfeiture - bankruptcy or liquidation must not apply under this provision. Will control of the Management Company (if any) be handed over to purchasers on completion of the last sale or earlier? Please confirm the Lease plans are architect prepared. The Vendor must covenant to keep unoccupied units in good repair until long leases are granted therefore.
In my capacity as executor for the estate of my father I am selling a property in Swansea but I am based in Stoke Poges. My conveyancer (based 200 kilometers from mehas requested that I sign a statutory declaration before the transaction finalising. Can you recommend a conveyancing lawyer in Stoke Poges who can attest this legal document for me?
Technically speaking you are not likely to need to have the documents attested by a conveyancing solicitor. Normally or notary public or solicitor will be fine regardless of whether they are Stoke Poges based