Having sold my house in Upper Tean last October yet the purchaser is e-mailing daily to moan that his solicitor is waiting to hear from mine. What should have happened following completion?
Following your house sale your conveyancer is obliged to send the transfer documentation and all additional paperwork to the buyer’s conveyancer. Where appropriate, your solicitor must also confirm that the mortgage has been repaid to the buyers solicitors. There are no post completion formalities just for conveyancing in Upper Tean.
I used Stirling Law several years past for my conveyancing in Upper Tean. Now, I need the files but cannot find the solicitor. What do I do?
Do contact the Solicitors Regulatory Authority (SRA) to help locate your conveyancing files. They can be contacted on please contact on 0870 606 2555. Alternatively, you should use their online form to make an enquiry. You will need to provide the SRA with as much information as possible to assist their search, including the name and address in Upper Tean of the conveyancing firm of solicitors you previously retained, the name of conveyancing solicitor with whom you had dealings, and the date on which you last had dealings with the firm.
Yesterday I discovered that there is a flying freehold issue on a property I have offered on last month in what was supposed to be a simple, chain free conveyancing. Upper Tean is the location of the property. Can you offer any guidance?
Flying freeholds in Upper Tean are not the norm but are more likely to exist in relation to terraced houses. Even where you use a solicitor outside Upper Tean you would need to get your solicitor to go through the deeds thoroughly. Your bank may require your conveyancing solicitor to take out an indemnity policy. Some of the more diligent conveyancing solicitors in Upper Tean may ascertain 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.
As co-executor for the will of my aunt I am disposing of a property in Neath but I am based in Upper Tean. My solicitor (based 200 kilometers from merequires that I sign a statutory declaration prior to completion. Can you recommend a conveyancing practitioner in Upper Tean who can witness and place their company stamp on the document?
Technically speaking you are not likely to be required to have the documents attested by a conveyancing solicitor. Ordinarily or notary public or qualified solicitor will do regardless of whether they are Upper Tean based
We expect to complete the sale of our £375,000 maisonette in Upper Tean on Friday in a week. The landlords agents has quoted £324 for Landlord’s certificate, building insurance schedule and previous years statements of service charge. Is it legal for a freeholder to charge exorbitant fees for a leasehold conveyance in Upper Tean?
Upper Tean conveyancing on leasehold flats usually necessitates the purchaser’s conveyancer submitting enquiries for the landlord to address. Although the landlord is under no legal obligation to respond to these enquiries the majority will be willing to do so. They may charge a reasonable administration fee for responding to enquiries or supplying documentation. There is no set fee. The average costs for the paperwork that you are referring to is £350, in some transactions it is above £800. The management information fee required by the landlord must be accompanied by a summary of rights and obligations in respect of administration fees, without which the charge is technically not due. In reality one has little option but to pay whatever is requested of you if you want to sell the property.
I own a 1 bedroom flat in Upper Tean, conveyancing formalities finalised half a dozen years ago. Can you give me give me an indication of the likely cost of a lease extension? Similar flats in Upper Tean with an extended lease are worth £197,000. The average or mid-range amount of ground rent is £55 yearly. The lease terminates on 21st October 2079
With only 54 years remaining on your lease we estimate the premium for your lease extension to range between £32,300 and £37,400 plus professional fees.
The suggested premium range that we have given is a general guide to costs for extending a lease, but we cannot give you a more accurate figure in the absence of detailed investigations. You should not use the figures in a Notice of Claim or as an informal offer. There are no doubt other issues that need to be taken into account and clearly you want to be as accurate as possible in your negotiations. Neither should you move forward based on this information without first seeking the advice of a professional.
Should local authority permission be needed to convert a house into multiple appartments in Upper Tean? This has been carried out to a house next door to a friend in Upper Tean and was ignorant of the conversion until after the works were done.
Planning Consent yes. Building Reg Approval yes.