I am need of leasehold conveyancing for an apartment in a relatively new development (6 years old) in West London. Almost all the appartments are already occupied. Is it strictly necessary to order neighbourhood searches for my conveyancing in West London?
If you getting a mortgage, your bank will require some (many) of the searches so you'll have no choice. If not, then West London conveyancing searches are optional. Your solicitor, will 'advise', perhaps in the strongest possible terms, that you should not go ahead without searches, but he or she has a professional duty to do this. One thing to bear in mind; if you are likely to sell the house one day, it may be of interest to your future buyer what the searches contain. Sometimes houses with no practical issues can still throw up adverse search results. But if you insist that your lawyer to proceed without searches then your lawyer will have to follow your instructions or you will need to swap to an alternative solicitor for your conveyancing in West London.
Is there a search tool that I can use to check that the solicitor handling my conveyancing in West London is on the lender’sconveyancing panel? I am looking to avoid the situation of having one lawyer for me and one for Nationwide Building Society thus spending £192.00 in further conveyancing fees.
Please do take advantage of the search tool on this web page. Please choose the lender and type ‘West London’ or your location and you will discover numerous conveyancers offices in West London or nearest you.
My partner and I are downsizing from our property in West London and according to the buyers it appears that there is a possibility that the property was constructed land that was not decontaminated. Any high street West London lawyer would know this is not the case. For the life of me I don't know why the buyers used a nationwide conveyancing firm as opposed to a conveyancing solicitor in West London. We have lived in West London for 4 years we know that this is a non issue. Should we contact our local Authority to get confirmation that the buyers are looking for.
It would appear that you have a conveyancing lawyer currently acting for you. What do they say? You must check with your lawyer before you do anything. It is very possible that once the local authority has been informed of a potential issue it cannot be insured against (a bit like being diagnosed with a serious illness and then taking out health insurance to cover that same ailment)
Me and my brother own a renovated Edwardian property in West London. Conveyancing solicitor acted for me and The Mortgage Works. I did a free Land Registry search last week and there are a couple of entries: one for freehold, another for leasehold under the exact same address. Is it worth asking The Mortgage Works to clarify?
You need to read the Freehold register you have again and check the Charges Register as there may be mention of a lease. The best way to be sure that you are also the registered proprietor of the leasehold and freehold title as well is to check (£3). It is not completely unheard of in West London and other locations in the country and poses no real issues for owners other than when they mortgage they have to account for both freehold and leasehold interests when dealing with lenders. You can also question the position with the conveyancing solicitor who carried out the work.
I opted to have a survey carried out on a house in West London prior to retaining conveyancers. I have been told that there is a flying freehold overhang to the house. The surveyor advised that some mortgage companies will not grant a mortgage on a flying freehold premises.
It varies from the lender to lender. Lloyds has different instructions from Nationwide. If you contact us we can check via the appropriate bank. If you lender is happy to lend one our lawyers can help as they are accustomed to dealing with flying freeholds in West London. Conveyancing can be more complicated and therefore you should check with your conveyancing solicitor in West London to see if the conveyancing costs will increase in light of this.
22 days into a sale of a flat in West London. Conveyancing solicitors are doing their job but we are being charged an extortionate amount from the landlord. To date we have issued a cheque for £268 for a leasehold management information and then another £118 for answers to questions supplied by the purchaser's lawyer.
You will not have control over the extent of the bill for this information but the average fee for the information for West London leasehold property is £360. For West London conveyancing sales it is standard for the vendor to cover the charges. The freeholder or their agents are not duty bound to answer such questions most will agree to do so - albeit often at exorbitant prices disproportionate to the work involved. Regretfully there is no law that mandates fixed fees for administrative tasks. There is no set time limit by which they are required to provide answers.