My mortgage broker requires my Stowmarket lawyer’ panel member for the HSBC conveyancing panel. Can you suggest how I find this out. I have called my local Stowmarket office but they have not responded to me.
You are best placed to get this information from your Stowmarket conveyancing practitioner . They retain a central record lender panel numbers.
Are you able to suggest a Nationwide Building Society allowed Stowmarket conveyancing solicitor finish our home move within under 3 weeks? Would it be better to use a high street Stowmarket practice or a nationwide conveyancer?
We would be happy to suggest some excellent Stowmarket conveyancing firms. You can also walk up the main road in Stowmarket. Visit a couple of law practices and request to speak with a conveyancing solicitor for a quote. Explain your deadline together with the reasons and ask for an assurance on your deadline. Select the lawyer that you trust.
We note that you have a post code search directory identifying law firms on the Barclays conveyancing panel. Do firms pay you a referral fee if I retain them for our own conveyancing in Stowmarket?
We are a listing service only for law firms wishing to communicate if they are on the Barclays conveyancing panel or other lender panels. We do not charge referral fees to any conveyancer that you subsequently appoint for your conveyancing in Stowmarket.
I used Stirling Law a few years ago for my conveyancing in Stowmarket. Now, I need the documents but the law firm is no longer operating. What do I do?
You should contact the Solicitors Regulatory Authority (SRA) to assist in tracking down 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 Stowmarket of the conveyancing firm of solicitors you previously hired, the name of conveyancing solicitor with whom you had dealings, and the date on which you last had dealings with the firm.
Yesterday I discovered that there is a flying freehold element on a property I put an offer in last month in what should have been a straight forward, chain free conveyancing. Stowmarket is where the house is located. Can you offer any advice?
Flying freeholds in Stowmarket are not the norm but are more likely to exist in relation to terraced houses. Even where you use a solicitor outside Stowmarket you would need to get your solicitor to go through the deeds diligently. Your mortgage company may require your conveyancing solicitor to take out an indemnity policy. Some of the more diligent conveyancing solicitors in Stowmarket may decide 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 residence.
My partner and I are acquiring a 2 bedroom flat in Stowmarket. At the point of instructing our conveyancing practitioner, we were told they were on all major UK lender panels. The mortgage broker emailed yesterday to advise that they don't appear to be on the Santander approved list. If it turns out to be true, what should we do? Do we just choose a new conveyancer that is on their panel or do we cover the costs for dual representation, with Santander selecting their own preferred conveyancing practitioner.
Where you are acquiring a property needing a mortgage it is conventional for the purchaser’s lawyers to also act for 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 solicitor to the lender to become a member of the lender's panel and there are increasingly strict criteria which the solicitor has to satisfy. Some building societies now require their panel members to be part of the Law Society’s Conveyancing Accreditation Scheme. Your conveyancer should contact Santander to find out if they can apply for membership of their conveyancing panel, but if that is not viable they will instruct their own solicitors to act. You are not legally obliged to appoint a law firm on Santander's conveyancing panel and you may continue to use your own Stowmarket solicitors, in which case your legal fees may increase, and it may delay matters as you are adding another solicitor into the mix.