We were just about to sign contracts for a leasehold flat in Tyne And Wear. We have hit a snag. Our loan offer with Skipton Building Society expires on 20/10/2025 but the owners are insisting on a completion date of 22/10/2025. Is it possible to extend the loan offer?
The best person to deal with your question is your lawyer who will determine whether he or she is better off negotiating with the bank, vendor’s solicitors, estate agents or indeed all parties taking into account the circumstances your transaction as of today.
It is a dozen years since I purchased my property in Tyne And Wear. Conveyancing lawyers have just been retained on the sale but I can't track down the deeds. Is this a problem?
You need not be too concerned. First there is a chance that the deeds will be with the lender or they could be in the possession of the solicitor who oversaw your purchase. Secondly the likelihood is that the title will be registered at the land registry and you will be able to prove you own the property by your conveyancing solicitors procuring up to date copy of the land registers. The vast majority of conveyancing in Tyne And Wear involves registered property but in the rare situation where your property is unregistered it adds to the complexity but is resolvable.
Me and my partner are buying a property in Tyne And Wear. I might seem paranoid but how we can trust a lawyer? On completion day we will need to send our life savings into their account. What protection do we have from them run away with our money?
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.
Have just purchased a probate house at auction in Tyne And Wear. Conveyancing is needed. What are my next steps?
Now that you are exchanged you must find a conveyancing practitioner soon as you are faced with a tight a drop dead date to complete the property. An auction property will have an associated legal set of papers. This should include the copy title deeds, local authority and drainage searches. If you have purchased leasehold premises the auction pack may contain a copy of the lease, management information and a sellers leasehold information form and associated conveyancing documentation relating to leasehold premises. You must give this to the lawyer working for you at the earliest opportunity. Do make sure that you have funds in order to complete the transaction on the set completion date.
This question may be naive but I am unseasoned as a 1st time purchaser of a garden flat in Tyne And Wear. Do I collect the keys to the house on completion from my solicitor? If so, I will use a High Street conveyancing solicitor in Tyne And Wear?
There is no need to visit the lawyers office on the day of completion. Your solicitors will transfer the purchase money to the vendor’s lawyers, and shortly after the monies have arrived, you will be called to pick up the keys from the Estate Agents and start moving into the property. This tends to happen between 1 and 3pm.
How do I locate a Tyne And Wear law firm on the Leeds Building Society conveyancing panel? I am a keen cyclist and am willing to travel upto 10kilometers to meet the lawyer.
Feel free to make use of the facility on this website. Please pick a lender and your location and you will see a number of Tyne And Wear conveyancing lawyers locally. We have listed some Tyne And Wear conveyancing firms at the bottom of this page and you can contact them to check if they are on the Leeds Building Society member panel
I am 3 weeks into a leasehold purchase having been recommend to conveyancers by the estate agent to do our conveyancing in Tyne And Wear. I am not happy. Could you you assist me in finding new solicitors?
A lawyer would need to be really bad in order to consider diss instructing them. Has your mortgage been generated? If so you need to advise them of the new lawyer and ensure the mortgage documents are issued to the new lawyers. Your conveyancer should be on the lenders approved list to avoid escalating costs and frustration. That should be your starting point. The find a solicitor tool should help you find a lender approved solicitor for your home move in Tyne And Wear
I purchased a flat in Tyne And Wear last 22/5/2024 and to date it is still not registered with the Land Registry. It was part of a development site and my property lawyer told me that it may take twelve months to complete the registration formalities. I have spoken with HMLR directly and they say that the initial application was cancelled due to failure to reply to requisitions. Do I need to be concerned?
get in touch with your conveyancer - if you are not getting sensible responses, enquire as to their firm’s complaints process and escalate your problem to a Partner. Registrations for Tyne And Wear conveyancing are not known to be significantly delayed.