Finally the sale completed on my house in Torquay last March but our buyer keeps Skype messaging every few hours complaining that her solicitor needs to hear from myconveyancer. What should my lawyer have done now that I have sold?
Following your house sale your conveyancer is obliged to send the transfer deeds and all supplemental paperwork to the purchaser's conveyancer. Depending on the transaction, your solicitor should also confirm that the legal charge in favour of the lender has been redeemed to the purchasers solicitors. There are no post completion formalities peculiar conveyancing in Torquay.
I am purchasing a right to buy a flat in Torquay. Can I do my own conveyancing?
Leaving aside the complexities and merits of DIY conveyancing in Torquay you will have to appoint a solicitor on your bank's conveyancing panel to look after their interests. Most people therefore find it easier to let the solicitor act for them and the lender. Furthermore there is minimal cost savings to be made in you doing conveyancing for yourself and another lawyer conducting the conveyancing for the lender. Please feel free to use the search tool to find a lawyer on your lender panel in Torquay.
I am assisting my aunt sell her property in Torquay. Does the solicitor order the energy performance certificate or do I organise this?
After the demise of HIPs, energy performance certificates was left as a mandatory element of selling a house. An energy performance certificate must be to hand prior to the property being marketed. It is not a task that conveyancers normally organise. Where you are using a Torquay conveyancing practitioner they may be willing to arrange energy performance certificates given their relationships with long established Torquay energy assessors
I have today made my last payment due on my mortgage with Leeds Building Society. I assume I don't need a Torquay conveyancing practitioner on the Leeds Building Society panel to discharge the mortgage at the Land Registry. Please confirm.
If you have finished paying off your Leeds Building Society mortgage, they may send you evidence showing that you have paid it off. Alternatively they may notify the Land Registry directly. The Land Registry need to see this evidence before they will remove the Leeds Building Society mortgage from the register. Leeds Building Society, and any evidence they send you, will determine the action you need to take. In cases where no conveyancer is acting for you and you have paid off your mortgage:
- but are not moving to another property
- where Leeds Building Society has sent the Land Registry the discharge electronically, and
- Leeds Building Society has instructed the Land Registry to do so
UBS have agreed my home loan in principle, my offer on a property in Torquay has been agreed to, what happens next?
The estate agent will need to be advised as to your conveyancer's details (be sure the solicitors are on the bank’s panel). Call up UBS or the financial adviser and complete any appropriate paperwork. UBS will appoint a valuer who will get in touch with the selling agent or vendor to book an appointment. Once carried out (assuming no problems) it takes about a week for the mortgage offer to be issued. UBS will send the offer to you and your lawyers. The legal work will then take it’s course according the nature and complexity of the conveyancing in Torquay.
I've recently found out that there is a flying freehold issue on a property I put an offer in a fortnight ago in what should have been a quick, no chain conveyancing. Torquay is where the house is located. Can you shed any light on this issue?
Flying freeholds in Torquay are rare but are more likely to exist in relation to terraced houses. Even where you use a solicitor outside Torquay you must be sure that your lawyer goes through the deeds very carefully. Your lender may require your conveyancing solicitor to take out an indemnity policy. Some of the more diligent conveyancing solicitors in Torquay 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 premises.
I have been sourcing a conveyancing lawyer in Torquay for my house move. Is there any facility to review a solicitor's complaints history with the legal regulator?
One may review published Solicitor Regulator Association (SRA) decisions stemming from investigations started on or after 1 January 2008. Visit Check a solicitor's record. To find details about the period before 1 January 2008, or to check a firm's history, phone 0870 606 2555, 08.00 - 18.00 Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and 09.30 - 18.00 Tuesday. International callers, call +44 (0)121 329 6800. The SRA could recorded telephone calls for training requirements.
I note that you have a post code search directory identifying law firms on the mortgage company conveyancing panel. Do Torquay conveyancing companies pay you a commission if I instruct them for my house purchase?
We are a listing service only for law firms wishing to communicate if they are on the bank conveyancing panel or other lender panels. We do not charge referral fees to the any conveyancer that you subsequently appoint for your conveyancing in Torquay.