The sellers of the property we are purchasing have appointed a conveyancing firm in Twickenham who has insisted on a preliminary agreement with a deposit 6,000. Are such agreements sensible?
This form of agreement is not the norm in Twickenham, conveyancers will often direct clients away from them as they divert attention from the primary objective, namely conveyancing and if you end up losing your deposit then the lawyer is left exposed. Secondly, there is no certainty that just because the owner has executed an exclusivity agreement they will complete the sale with you. They may be in contravention of the agreement if they are offered sufficient financial inducement to do so because a wronged purchaser with the benefit of a exclusivitycontract will still have to show losses as a consequence of the breach and this may not compare to the financial upside that your vendor may secure by breaking the agreement, no matter how morally unworthy it undoubtedly is.
Can your site be used to find a Conveyancing solicitor in Twickenham even where I’m not buying or disposing of a house, for instance where I want to buy a shop in Twickenham with a mortgage from The Mortgage Works?
Our search tool is predominantly used to help choose residential conveyancing solicitors in Twickenham but we have set out at the bottom of this page a few Twickenham commercial conveyancing firms. You will need to make contact with the firm directly to check if they are also authorised to represent The Mortgage Works
Do the Building Society Association intend to launch a search tool with a view to list law firms on the Earl Shilton BS conveyancing panel for instance in Twickenham?
We have not been informed any plans on the part of the BSA to promote such a tool.
Despite weeks of looking the Title Certificate and documents to my home are lost. The conveyancers who did the conveyancing in Twickenham 5 years ago no longer exist. What do I do?
As long as the title is registered the information relating to your proprietorship will be documented by the Land Registry with a Title Number. It is easy to perform a search at the Land Registry, identify your house and get up to date copies of the Registered Entries for a small fee. Where the title is Leasehold then the Land Registry will in most cases retain a file copy of the Registered Lease and again, a copy can be retrieved for a small fee.
I have been on the look out for a ground for flat up to £305k and identified one round the corner in Twickenham I like with open areas and station in the vicinity, the downside is that it only has 51 remaining years left on the lease. I can't really find anything else in Twickenham in this price bracket, so just wondered if I would be making a mistake acquiring a short lease?
If you require a home loan the remaining unexpired lease term will likely be an issue. Discount the price by the amount the lease extension will cost if it has not already been discounted. If the current proprietor has owned the property for a minimum of twenty four months you can request that they start the process of the extension and pass it to you. An additional ninety years can be extended on to the current lease term and have £0 ground rent by law. You should speak to your conveyancing lawyer about this.
What does commercial conveyancing in Twickenham cover?
Commercial conveyancing in Twickenham incorporates a wide range of advice, supplied by regulated solicitors, relating to business premises. For instance, this area of conveyancing can cover the sale or purchase of freehold business premises or, more commonly, the transfer of existing leases or the drafting of new leasing arrangements. Commercial conveyancing solicitors can also offer advice on the sale of business assets, commercial loans and the termination of tenancies.