My previous conveyancer has given a fee calculation of £1200 for leasehold conveyancing in Tintagel. I’m looking to sell a modern house for £200,000. Are these estimated fees excessive? Is it in excess of the norm for conveyancing in Tintagel?
The costs illustration is fractionally on the expensive side. If you are happy to expend time contrasting quotes you could get the conveyancing a bit cheaper by perhaps a hundred pounds. On the other hand, you mightcome to rue choosing an an unknown conveyancer. Remember to check that the conveyancer can represent your mortgage company. Do use our search tool to find a Tintagel conveyancing practice on the banks approved list of lawyers which can often include conveyancing solicitors in Tintagel.
Can the conveyancing solicitors via your comparison service conduct conveyancing in Tintagel by way of an attended exchange?
There are a few conveyancing experts carrying out personalised exchanges. You should e-mail us to receive a costs illustration and details as to dates.
We previously appointed conveyancing lawyers based in Tintagel on the Leeds Building Society solicitor panel. They have just billed me a further amount for dealing with the Leeds Building Society mortgage. Is this a supplemental conveyancing fee set by Leeds Building Society?
As unfair as it may seem, as long as it’s in their Terms of Engagement or estimate then yes your lawyer can levy a fee for this. This fee is not set by Leeds Building Society but by your Tintagel conveyancer. Plenty of firms on the Leeds Building Society panel will levy ’dealing with mortgage’ fee and others do not.
After weeks of negotiation I have agreed a price on a house in Tintagel. My financial adviser pressured me to appoint their lawyer. I paid an advanced payment of £150. A few days later, the conveyancer contacted me to say that they were not on the Bank of Ireland conveyancing panel. Am I right in thinking that I should be due a refund?
You should be able to recover this from the law firm if they were not on the Bank of Ireland panel. They should have asked at the outset which lender you were obtaining a mortgage with. An important lesson to readers of this site is to check that the lawyers are on the appropriate lender panel.
My offer was accepted on an apartment in Tintagel on 24/11/2025, valuation was booked 2 days after, all came back fine. Conveyancer instructed, so all that was missing was my mortgage offer. Having made daily calls to Skipton and chasing them on my offer, I have now been told that my offer will not be issued unless the lawyer is on the Skipton conveyancing panel. Are Skipton entitled to hold back the Mortgage pending the lawyer being on the approved list?
Mortgage companies tend not to not issue a mortgage until they have details of a lawyer on their panel. It can take a few weeks for Skipton to deal with your lawyer's application to be on the Skipton conveyancing panel. There's no guarantee that your solicitor will be accepted.
I have been told that property searches are the number one reason for stalling in Tintagel house deals. Is there any truth in this?
The Council of Property Search Organisations (CoPSO) published findings of a review by MoveWithUs that conveyancing searches do not figure within the common causes of hindrances in the conveyancing process. Local searches are unlikely to feature in any holding up conveyancing in Tintagel.
I am purchasing my first flat in Tintagel with a mortgage from The Mortgage Works. The sellers refused to move on the price so I negotiated £7000 of fixtures and fittings instead. The estate agent suggested that I not to tell my solicitor about this deal as it could affect my loan with the bank. Is this normal?.
All lenders require a Disclosure of Incentives Form from the builder of any new build, converted or renovated property, It is available online from the Lenders’ Handbook page on the CML website. CML form is completed and handed to the lender's surveyor when the inspection is done.
Lenders have different policies on incentives. Some accept none at all, cash or physical, while others will accept cash incentives up to 5%.
Hard to understand why the representative of a builder would be suggesting you withold information from a solicitor when all this will be clearly visible on forms the builder has to supply to its solicitor, the buyer's solicitor and the surveyor.
I am in need of some leasehold conveyancing in Tintagel. Before I set the wheels in motion I would like to find out the remaining lease term.
If the lease is registered - and 99.9% are in Tintagel - 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 acquired a basement flat in Tintagel, conveyancing formalities finalised May 1996. Can you let me have an estimate of the premium that my landlord can legally expect in return for granting a renewal of my lease? Corresponding flats in Tintagel with an extended lease are worth £165,000. The ground rent is £50 charged once a year. The lease ends on 21st October 2104
With 78 years left to run we estimate the premium for your lease extension to span between £7,600 and £8,800 as well as costs.
The suggested premium range above a general guide to costs for renewing a lease, but we cannot give you the actual costs without more comprehensive investigations. You should not use the figures in tribunal or court proceedings. There may be additional concerns that need to be considered and clearly you should be as accurate as possible in your negotiations. Neither should you move forward based on this information without first getting professional advice.