We are planning to purchase with Norwich and Peterborough Building Society. I dropped in a few high street firms yet am struggling to find a Sydenham conveyancing firm on the Norwich and Peterborough Building Society approved list. Please you assist?
You should take advantage of the find a conveyancing panel solicitor tool on this site. Please choose the building society and type Sydenham or your location and you will be presented with a number of lawyer offices in Sydenham or near you.
What can a local search tell me about the property I am buying in Sydenham?
Sydenham conveyancing often starts with the applying for local authority searches directly from your local Authority or via a personal search company for example Searchflow The local search is essential in every Sydenham conveyancing purchase; as long as you don’t want any nasty once you have moved into your new home. The search should provide 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 sections.
Me and my brother purchased a 4 bedroom Edwardian property in Sydenham. Conveyancing practitioner represented me and Skipton Building Society. I did a free Land Registry search last week and there are two entries: one for freehold, the second leasehold under the exact same property. If a house is not a freehold shouldn't I have been informed?
You need to read 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 Sydenham and other areas of the country and poses no real issues for owners other than when they buy they have to account for both freehold and leasehold interests when dealing with lenders. You can also check the situation with your conveyancing practitioner who conducted the conveyancing.
We're new to the buying process - had an offer accepted, but the property agent has warned us that the vendor will only move forward if we use the agent's recommended conveyancers as they need an ‘expedited deal’. My instinct tells me that we should use a family solicitor who is familiar with conveyancing in Sydenham
It is highly unlikely the vendors are behind this. Should the vendor require ‘a quick sale', turning down a motivated purchaser is going to damage their objectives. Bypass the agents and go straight to the owners and make the point that (a)you are keen to buy (b)you are excited to move forward, with mortgage lined up © you are chain free (d) you intend to proceed fast (e)however you are going to instruct your preferred Sydenham conveyancing firm - not the ones that will provide the estate agent a introducer fee or hit his conveyancing thresholds set by head office.
I only have 68 years unexpired on my flat in Sydenham. I need to extend my lease but my landlord is absent. What are my options?
On the basis that you qualify, under the Leasehold Reform, Housing and Urban Development Act 1993 you can submit an application to the County Court for an order to dispense with the service of the initial notice. This will mean that your lease can be granted an extra 90 years by the Court. You will be obliged to demonstrate that you have used your best endeavours to track down the lessor. On the whole a specialist may be useful to carry out a search and prepare a report to be accepted by the court as proof that the landlord is indeed missing. It is wise to seek advice from a conveyancer both on proving the landlord’s absence and the application to the County Court covering Sydenham.
I inherited a garden flat in Sydenham. In the absence of agreement between myself and the landlord, can the Leasehold valuation Tribunal make a decision on the premium payable for a lease extension?
Most certainly. We can put you in touch with a Sydenham conveyancing firm who can help.
An example of a Lease Extension matter before the tribunal for a Sydenham residence is Flat 1 4 Border Crescent in March 2012. the Tribunal decided that the sum payable by the Applicants to the Respondent in respect of the new lease for the subject property should be £11,616.00 (ElevenThousand and Six Hundred and Sixteen Pounds) This case was in relation to 1 flat. The remaining number of years on the lease was 72.04 years.
We are in the midst of selling our flat in Sydenham. Conveyancing lawyers are doing their job but we have been asked to pay a fortune from the freeholder. So far we have paid £295.50 for a leasehold management information and then a further £200 plus VAT for additional questions supplied by the purchaser's property lawyer.
Your conveyancer will unlikely have any say over the extent of the bill for this information but the typical costs for the information for Sydenham leasehold premises is £380. For Sydenham conveyancing deals it is customary for the seller to pay for these costs. The freeholder or their agents are under no legal obligation to answer these questions most will agree to do so - albeit often at high prices out of proportion to the work involved. Regretfully there is no legislation that mandates capped fees for administrative tasks. There is no statutory time frame by which they are obliged to supply the information.