I am assisting my sister sell her property in Wakefield. Does the solicitor order an energy assessment or it is for the owner to coordinate?
After the abolition of HIPs, energy assessments became a required element of moving property. An EPC must be to hand prior to the property being advertised. This is not a task that solicitors ordinarily organise. If you are instructing a Wakefield conveyancing lawyer they might help arrange energy performance certificates due to their contacts with long established Wakefield providers
Is it the case that all Wakefield conveyancing solicitors on the Lloyds conveyancing panel are overseen by the SRA?
As a firm of solicitors, in order to be on the Lloyds approved list of solicitors they would need to be governed by the SRA. The majority of banks do list licenced conveyancers on their panel in which case such firms would be governed by the CLC.
Planning on purchasing a flat in Wakefield. I have received an online quote from a licenced conveyancer, which states: "There will be no charge for dealing with the Building Society if you are obtaining a mortgage". I take this to mean that there will be no additional fee if the solicitor is on the RBS conveyancing panel. I wanted to make sure it means there will be no additional fees for dealing with the mortgage.
They are simply saying that the cost for acting for the lender is included in the fee being quoted. It is worth you checking that the Wakefield solicitor is on the RBS conveyancing panel.
A colleague recommended that where I am buying in Wakefield I should ask my conveyancer to carry out a Neighbourhood, Planning and Local Amenity Search. Can you explain what the purpose of this search is?
This is a search is sometimes included in the estimate for your Wakefield conveyancing searches. It is not a small report of more than thirty pages, listing and detailing significant information about Wakefield around the property and the people living there. It incorporates an Aerial Photograph, Planning Applications, Land Use, Mobile Phone Masts, Rights of Way, the local Housing Market, Council Tax Banding, the type of People living in the area, the dominant type of Housing, the Average House Prices, Crime details, Wakefield Education with plans and statistics, Local Amenities and other useful data about Wakefield.
I used Wolstenholmes several years past for my conveyancing in Wakefield. Now, I need the files however the law firm has closed. What do I do?
Do call the Solicitors Regulatory Authority (SRA) to assist in tracing 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 Wakefield of the conveyancing firm of solicitors you previously used, the name of conveyancing solicitor with whom you had dealings, and the date on which you last had dealings with the firm.
I decided to have a survey completed on a property in Wakefield in advance of retaining conveyancers. I have been informed that there is a flying freehold overhang to the property. Our surveyor advised that some mortgage companies may not give a mortgage on a flying freehold premises.
It depends who your proposed lender is. Santander has different instructions from Halifax. Should you wish to telephone us we can look into this further with the relevant mortgage company. If you lender is happy to lend one our lawyers can assist as they are used to dealing with flying freeholds in Wakefield. Conveyancing may be slightly more expensive based on your lender's requirements.
Is it possible to switch conveyancer as I need to find one who is on the Alliance & Leicester conveyancing panel. I hired a local conveyancing solicitor in Wakefield round the corner but he is not accepted by Alliance & Leicester
It would be our pleasure to assist you find a conveyancing solicitor in Wakefield on the Alliance & Leicester panel. Please note that the conveyancers that we work with do not pay us a referral fee if you instruct them and are regulated by the SRA who oversee all conveyancing solicitors in Wakefield. In utilising the find a conveyancing solicitor tool on this website, you can compare costs for conveyancing solicitors in Wakefield and beyond.
As co-executor for the estate of my uncle I am disposing of a property in Neath but live in Wakefield. My conveyancer (based 260 miles from merequires that I sign a stat dec prior to completion. Could you suggest a conveyancing practitioner in Wakefield who can attest 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 any notary public or solicitor will be fine regardless of whether they are based in Wakefield