Me and my wife are acquiring property in Taffs Well. My Solicitor is not listed on the lender conveyancing list. Is it possible for me to appoint my Taffs Well conveyancing solicitor notwithstanding that they are excluded from the lender list of approved lawyers?
Your options include
- Complete the purchase with your existing Taffs Well solicitor but your bank will need to retain a lawyer on their approved list. The net result is additional fees and likely delay.
- Get a fresh conveyancing practitioner to act in the purchase, ensuring that they are on the bank conveyancing panel.
- Appeal to your solicitor to attempt to join the bank panel
I am about to exchange on the purchase of a house in Taffs Well but as a result of wreckage from a small fire at the property I have was able negotiate reparation from the vendor in the sum of £3k by way of a reduction in the price. I had intended this to be dealt with as part of amending the contract however Principality will not agree to this. Why were they involved?
The conveyancer being on a Principality approved list is duty bound to advise Principality of any amendments to the sale price. If you prohibit your property lawyer to disclose the reduction to Principality then they would have to discontinue acting for you. In addition, Principality and you would have to appoint a new solicitor for your conveyancing in Taffs Well.
We hope to to purchase with Melton Mowbray Building Society. I dropped in 3 or 4 local practices yet cant to find a Taffs Well conveyancing firm on the Melton Mowbray Building Society approved list. Please you help?
Feel free to make the most of the find a conveyancing panel solicitor tool on this page. Please choose the mortgage company and type Taffs Well or your preferred area and you will see a number of lawyer offices in Taffs Well or nearest you.
My relative recommended that if I am buying in Taffs Well I should ask my conveyancer to execute a Neighbourhood, Planning and Local Amenity Search. What does it cover?
A search of this type is usually quoted for as part of the standard Taffs Well conveyancing searches. It is a large document of about 40 pages, listing and detailing significant information about Taffs Well around the property and the people living there. It incorporates an Aerial Photograph, Planning Applications, Land Use, Mobile Phone Masts, Rights of Way, the Taffs Well Housing Market, Council Tax Banding, the type of People living in the area, the dominant type of Housing, the Average House Prices, Crime statistics, Taffs Well Education with plans and statistics, Local Amenities and other useful data concerning Taffs Well.
Yesterday I discovered that there is a flying freehold element on a property I have offered on a fortnight ago in what was supposed to be a quick, chain free conveyancing. Taffs Well is the location of the property. Can you offer any advice?
Flying freeholds in Taffs Well are rare but are more likely to exist in relation to terraced houses. Even though you don't necessarily need a conveyancing solicitor in Taffs Well you must be sure that your lawyer goes through the deeds thoroughly. Your mortgage company may require your conveyancing solicitor to take out an indemnity policy. Some of the more diligent conveyancing solicitors in Taffs Well 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.
Would local authority permission be necessary to split a house into a couple of appartments in Taffs Well? This has been done to a property opposite to my home in Taffs Well and was ignorant of the conversion until it was finished.
Planning consent is needed for converting a single house in Taffs Well into apartments but probably not for converting back to single dwelling-house so, simply put, yes.