Recently been in touch with my conveyancing solicitor in Woolavington who completed the legal work 18 months ago asking for a conveyancing quote based on the same type of house sale & purchase (a leasehold premises and a freehold property) of almost identical values with a home loan from Chelsea Building Society. I am now being charged twice the amount. Am I right to be tempted to shop around for a cheaper internet firm of conveyancing solicitor?
The quote is slightly on the high side. Where you are willing to spend time contrasting charges you could get the conveyancing a bit cheaper by perhaps a hundred pounds. That being said, assuming were pleased with the conveyancing the firm gave you maycome to rue opting for an an unknown lawyer. If is important to check the solicitor can act for Chelsea Building Society. Do use our search tool to find a Woolavington conveyancing firm on the Chelsea Building Society conveyancing panel, which can often include conveyancing solicitors in Woolavington.
We see that you have a post code search directory identifying firms on the Kent Reliance conveyancing panel. Do firms pay you a referral fee if I retain them for our conveyancing in Woolavington?
We are a listing service only for law firms wishing to communicate if they are on the Kent Reliance conveyancing panel or other lender panels. We do not charge referral fees to any conveyancer that you subsequently appoint for your conveyancing in Woolavington.
A colleague advised me that where I am buying in Woolavington I should ask my conveyancer to carry out a Neighbourhood, Planning and Local Amenity Search. What does it cover?
This is a search is sometimes included in the estimate for your Woolavington conveyancing searches. It is not a small report of about 40 pages, listing and detailing significant information about Woolavington around the property and the people living there. It incorporates an Aerial Photograph, Planning Applications, Land Use, Mobile Phone Masts, Rights of Way, the Woolavington Housing Market, Council Tax Banding, the type of People living in the area, the dominant type of Housing, the Average House Prices, Crime statistics, Local Education with maps and statistics, Local Amenities and other useful data regarding Woolavington.
I have a semi-detached Edwardian house in Woolavington. Conveyancing solicitor represented me and Godiva Mortgages Ltd. I did a free Land Registry search last week and I saw a couple of entries: one for freehold, the second leasehold with the matching property. Is it worth asking Godiva Mortgages Ltd to clarify?
You should review 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 Woolavington and other locations in the country and poses no real issues for owners other than when they buy they have to account for both freehold and leasehold interests when dealing with buyers. You can also question the situation with your conveyancing practitioner who conducted the conveyancing.
How does conveyancing in Woolavington differ for newly converted properties?
Most buyers of new build property in Woolavington contact us having been asked by the housebuilder to sign contracts and commit to the purchase even before the residence is completed. This is because house builders in Woolavington tend to buy the real estate, plan the estate and want to get the plots sold off as they are building the properties. Buyers, therefore, will have to exchange contracts without actually seeing the house they are buying. To reduce the chances of losing the property, buyers should instruct conveyancing solicitors as soon as the property is reserved and mortgage applications should be submitted quickly. Due to the fact that it could be several months and even years between exchange of contracts and completion, the mortgage offer may need to be extended. It would be wise to use a lawyer who specialises in new build conveyancing especially if they are used to new build conveyancing in Woolavington or who has acted in the same development.
Can you provide any advice for leasehold conveyancing in Woolavington from the perspective of speeding up the sale process?
- Much of the delay in leasehold conveyancing in Woolavington can be avoided if you instruct lawyers the minute you market your property and request that they start to put together the leasehold information needed by the buyers’ solicitors. If you have the benefit of shareholding in the freehold, you should make sure that you are holding the original share document. Arranging a duplicate share certificate is often a lengthy formality and delays many a Woolavington conveyancing transaction. If a new share is required, do contact the company director and secretary or managing agents (where applicable) for this sooner rather than later. You believe that you know the number of years remaining on your lease but it would be advisable double-check by asking your solicitors. A buyer’s conveyancer will be unlikely to recommend their client to to exchange contracts if the lease term is less than 75 years. In the circumstances it is important at an as soon as possible that you identify whether the lease for your property needs extending. If it does, contact your solicitors before you put your home on the market for sale. If there is a history of conflict with your landlord or managing agents it is very important that these are settled prior to the flat being put on the market. The buyers and their solicitors will be nervous about purchasing a flat where a dispute is unresolved. You may have to bite the bullet and pay any arrears of service charge or resolve the dispute prior to the buyers completing the purchase. It is therefore preferable to have any dispute settled prior to the contract papers being issued to the buyers’ solicitors. You are still duty bound to disclose particulars of the dispute to the purchasers, but it is better to present the dispute as over rather than unsettled. If you have carried out any alterations to the premises would they have required Landlord’s consent? Have you, for example installed wooden flooring? Woolavington leases often stipulate that internal structural alterations or installing wooden flooring calls for a licence issued by the Landlord consenting to such alterations. If you dont have the consents to hand do not contact the landlord without contacting your conveyancer in the first instance.
Leasehold Conveyancing in Woolavington - Sample of Queries before Purchasing
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How many of the leaseholders are in arrears for their maintenance charge payments? What is the name of the managing agents? The best form of lease arrangement is where the freehold title is owned by the leaseholders. In this scenario the lessees benefit from being in charge if their destiny and even though a managing agent is frequently retained if the building is larger than a house conversion, the managing agent employed by the leaseholders.