Having been suggested to visit your organisation we were going to use a conveyancing solicitor in West Dulwich endorsed by you but stumbled across some other fee calculations via the web appear less expensive – why is this?
One can find a variety of conveyancing companies offering theoretically looks to be the cheapest conveyancing in West Dulwich. We suggest that you give due consideration about how much you respect your own move to you are willing to take 'cheap' risks in relation to the quality of the legal work. Some embed additional charges well inside the terms and conditions. The conveyancers that we list for conveyancing in West Dulwich will notbehave this way.
I am selling my apartment. I had a double glazing fitted in April 2007, but did not receive a FENSA certificate or Building Regulation Certificate. My purchaser’s lender, Coventry BS are being problematic. The West Dulwich solicitor who is on the Coventry BS conveyancing panel is recommending indemnity insurance as a solution but Coventry BS are requiring a building regulation certificate. Why do Coventry BS have a conveyancing panel if they don't accept advice from them?
It is probably the case that Coventry BS have referred the matter to their valuer. The reason why Coventry BS may not want to accept indemnity insurance is because it does not give them any reassurance that the double glazing was correctly and safely installed. The indemnity insurance merely protects against enforcement action which is very unlikely anyway.
My offer was accepted on a house in West Dulwich on 6/6/2025, valuation was booked 2 days after, all came back fine. Solicitor instructed, so all that was missing was my mortgage offer. Having made daily calls to Lloyds and chasing them on my offer, I have now been told that my offer will not be issued unless the lawyer is on the Lloyds conveyancing panel. Can the lender hold off the offer?
Mortgage companies tend not to not issue an offer until they have details of a lawyer on their panel. It can take a few weeks for Lloyds to deal with your lawyer's application to be on the Lloyds conveyancing panel. There's no guarantee that your solicitor will be accepted.
Having read lots of house buying guides, I note that they all recommend that you should get your house surveyed prior to buying it. When I asked my local West Dulwich solicitor - who is on the Virgin Money conveyancing panel - on this she said they don't do this and I need to contract an independent surveyor. Is that normal?
Virgin Money will need an independent valuation of the property. Your lawyer will not arrange this. Usually Virgin Money will appoint their own surveyor to do this, and you will have to pay for it. Remember that this is a valuation for mortgage purposes and not a survey. You may wish to consider appointing your own West Dulwich surveyor to carry out a survey or prepare a home buyers report on the property. It is up to you to satisfy yourself that the property is structurally sound before you buy it. If the survey or report reveals that building work is needed, you should tell your solicitor. You may wish to renegotiate with the seller.
We are buying a property and the lawyer has identified Chancel Repair for which the house may be liable as it falls into the area of such a church. She has recommended insurance. Is this strictly required for conveyancing in West Dulwich
Unless a prior purchase of the property completed after 12 October 2013 you could take it that solicitors carrying out conveyancing in West Dulwich to continue to propose a a chancel search and or chancel repair liability insurance.
I have todaybecome aware that Wolstenholmes have closed. They conducted my conveyancing in West Dulwich for a purchase of a leasehold apartment 9 months ago. How can I check that the property is not still registered in the name of the previous owner?
The easiest method to check if the premises is in your name, you can make a search of the land registry (£3.00). You can either do this yourself or ask a law firm to do this for you. If you are not registered you can seek help from one of a number of West Dulwich conveyancing specialists.
I have been advised by a few selling agents in West Dulwich to find a conveyancer on your site. Is there a financial incentive for Estate Agents to offer your site over a competitor’s?
We don’t give any referral fee for pointing buyers and sellers to this site. We thought it would be too underhand a fee because home movers will think, ‘Why is the agent getting a kickback? Why am I not getting any benefit too?’ So we decided to step away from that.
I work for a reputable estate agent office in West Dulwich where we have experienced a few leasehold sales derailed due to short leases. I have received conflicting advice from local West Dulwich conveyancing solicitors. Can you confirm whether the vendor of a flat can start the lease extension process for the purchaser on completion of the sale?
As long as the seller has been the owner for at least 2 years it is possible, to serve a Section 42 notice to kick-start the lease extension process and assign the benefit of the notice to the purchaser. This means that the buyer need not have to wait 2 years to extend their lease. Both sets of lawyers will agree to form of assignment. The assignment has to be done before, or simultaneously with completion of the sale.
Alternatively, it may be possible to extend the lease informally by agreement with the landlord either before or after the sale. If you are informally negotiating there are no rules and so you cannot insist on the landlord agreeing to grant an extension or transferring the benefit of an agreement to the buyer.
Having spent years of negotiations we simply can't agree with our landlord on how much the lease extension should cost for our flat in West Dulwich. Can we issue an application to the Residential Property Tribunal Service?
Most definitely. We can put you in touch with a West Dulwich conveyancing firm who can help.
An example of a Freehold Enfranchisement matter before the tribunal for a West Dulwich property is 8 Deerbrook Road in May 2010. the Tribunal held that the enfranchisement price, in accordance with section 32 and Schedule 6 of the Leasehold Reform, Housing and Urban Development Act 1993 was £22,820, payable by the Applicants. By an order of the Lambeth County Court dated 17 June 2009 the case had been transferred to the Leasehold Valuation Tribunal for its determination of the premium payable This case affected 3 flats.