Can your site be used to recommend a Conveyancing solicitor in Thornton Heath even if I’m not buying or selling a house, for instance where I want to acquire an office in Thornton Heath with a loan from Yorkshire Building Society?
Our search tool is primarily utilised to select residential conveyancing solicitors in Thornton Heath but we have listed towards the bottom of this page some Thornton Heath commercial conveyancing firms. You will need to make contact with the solicitors directly to establish if they are also authorised to represent Yorkshire Building Society
I am buying a property and require a conveyancing solicitor in Thornton Heath who is on the Skipton Building Society solicitor. Could you point me in the right direction as regards a firm?
Our service is limited to being a directory service for firms who wish to listed as being on the approved conveyancing panel for Skipton Building Society in certain locations such as Thornton Heath. We dont recommend any particular firm.
My wife and I are buying a property in Thornton Heath. It might be a silly question but how we can trust a conveyancer? On completion day we will need to put our life savings into their account. What protection do we have from them run away with our monies?
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.
My wife and I are in the process of looking at flats in Thornton Heath and I am now considering a potential offer. Is it sensible to have a property lawyer on ‘stand by’? I will be getting a mortgage with Santander.
You should start obtaining conveyancing estimates from solicitors ASAP. After you have chosen your lawyer and once your offer is accepted you can instruct them to work for you and pass their details on to the estate agent. As you are obtaining a mortgage with Santander, make sure you remember to check that your lawyer is on the Santander conveyancing panel.
Having read lots of house buying guides, I note that they all recommend that you should get your house surveyed prior to buying it. When I asked my local Thornton Heath solicitor - who is on the RBS conveyancing panel - on this she said they don't do this and I need to contract an independent surveyor. is that correct?
RBS will need an independent valuation of the property. Your lawyer will not arrange this. Usually RBS will appoint their own surveyor to do this, and you will have to pay for it. Remember that this is a valuation for mortgage purposes and not a survey. You may wish to consider appointing your own Thornton Heath surveyor to carry out a survey or prepare a home buyers report on the property. It is up to you to satisfy yourself that the property is structurally sound before you buy it. If the survey or report reveals that building work is needed, you should tell your solicitor. You may wish to renegotiate with the seller.
Are there restrictive covenants that are commonly identified during conveyancing in Thornton Heath?
Restrictive covenants can be picked up when reviewing land registry title as part of the legal transfer of property in Thornton Heath. 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…’
I am buying a new build flat in Thornton Heath. 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 questions that you may expect your new-build leasehold conveyancing in Thornton Heath
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Will the freehold then be transferred for a nominal consideration (not exceeding £100) to the Management Company? Will control of the Management Company (if any) be handed over to purchasers on completion of the last sale or earlier? Please supply evidence that the form of Lease proposed has been approved by the Land Registry. Please confirm the Lease plans are surveyor prepared.
I am in need of some leasehold conveyancing in Thornton Heath. Before I set the wheels in motion I want to be sure as to the unexpired term of the lease.
Assuming the lease is registered - and most are in Thornton Heath - then the leasehold title will always include the short particulars of the lease, namely the date; the term; and the original parties. From a conveyancing perspective such details then enable any prospective buyer and lender to confirm that any lease they are looking at is the one relevant to that title. For any other purpose, such as confirming how long the term was granted for and calculating what is left, then the register should be sufficient on it's own.
I am the leaseholder of a garden flat in Thornton Heath. In the absence of agreement between myself and the freeholder, can the Leasehold valuation Tribunal determine the sum payable for the purchase of the freehold?
in cases where there is a absentee freeholder or where there is dispute about the premium for a lease extension, under the relevant legislation it is possible to make an application to the First-tier Tribunal (Property Chamber) to decide the price payable.
An example of a Lease Extension matter before the tribunal for a Thornton Heath residence is Ground Floor Flat 14 Lodge Road in October 2013. the tribunal held that the price payable for the acquisition of the extended lease of the property should be £12,590 .00 This case related to 1 flat. The number of years remaining on the existing lease(s) was 69.46 years.