I am in the market for a reasonably priced conveyancer. Should I go for for a national conveyancer or a family Aldwych conveyancing solicitor?

Established third party connections is an important consideration when choosing conveyancing lawyers. Aldwych conveyancers benefit from connections with mortgage brokers and agents, local authorities, surveyors and other law firms meaning the whole process is going to be much smoother for you. Having years of insight into the local area is also a plus .

The Aldwych conveyancing solicitors that I appointed last week on my house acquisition in Aldwych have without warning closed. I only went with them because I had to have a lawyer on the Co-operative conveyancing panel and my family Aldwych lawyer was not. I paid them funds on account. What do I do now?

If you have an estate agent involved then inform them straight away so that they can let the sellers know that there may be a slight delay due to reasons beyond your control. Hopefully they will be sympathetic and urge their lawyer to send a new set of papers to your new solicitors. You will need to appoint new lawyers that are on the Co-operative conveyancing panel and notify the lender. If you have paid over any money, it will hopefully be held by the SRA as money in an intervened firm's bank accounts is transferred to the SRA. Then, the SRA or the intervention agent looks at the intervened firm's accounts to work out who the money belongs to. To claim your money you will need to contact the SRA. If the SRA cannot return money you are owed from the firm's bank accounts, or if they can only return part of the money, you can apply to the Compensation Fund for a grant. Your new solicitors may be able to help.

I'm refinancing my primary home to a BTL mortgage with Godiva Mortgages Ltd and I will use the ballance of the raised equity towards further property. The area we are talking about is Aldwych. Will your lawyers be able to act for both sets of lenders and link together the transactions?

Make use of our search tool on this site to check that the lawyers are approved by both mortgage companies. Assuming that they are your conveyancer should be able to tie up the two conveyancing matters but you should talk with you solicitor and make clear your expectations and needs.

Due to sign contracts shortly on a leasehold property in Aldwych. Conveyancing lawyers inform me that they report fully next week. Are there areas in the report that I should be focusing on?

Your report on title for your leasehold conveyancing in Aldwych should include some of the following:

Do you need to have carpet in the flat or are you allowed wood flooring? Whether the lease restricts you from renting out the flat, or having a home office for business specifics of the parties to the lease, e.g. these could be the (you), superior lessor, landlord What you can do if an adjoining owner is in violation of a provision in their lease? It needs to be made clear to you whether the lease allows you to change or improve aspects of the flat- you must know whether it applies to all alterations or limited to structural alteration, and whether permission is mandated necessary

Following months of negotiations we are unable to agree with our landlord on how much the lease extension should cost for our flat in Aldwych. Does the Leasehold Valuation Tribunal have jurisdiction to calculate the appropriate figures?

You certainly can. We can put you in touch with a Aldwych conveyancing firm who can help.

An example of a Freehold Enfranchisement decision for a Aldwych flat is 20 Avonwick Road in July 2013. The Tribunal was dealing with an application under Section 26 of the Leasehold Reform Housing and Urban Development Act 1993 for a determination of the freehold value of the property. It was concluded that the price to be paid was Fifteen Thousand Nine Hundred and Seventy (£15,970) divided as to £8,200 for Flat 20 and £7,770 for Flat 20A This case affected 1 flat. The unexpired term as at the valuation date was 73.26 years.

We are in the throes of selling our flat in Aldwych. Conveyancing solicitors are doing their job but we are being charged an extortionate amount from the freeholder. To date we have paid £237 for a leasehold management information and then another £134.40 for responses to questions raised by the buyers property lawyer.

You will not have control over the level of the fee for this information but the typical costs for the information for Aldwych leasehold premises is £360. When it comes to Aldwych conveyancing sales it is usual for the vendor to cover the costs. The freeholder or their agents are under no statutory obligation to address such questions although many will agree to do so - albeit often at exorbitant prices out of proportion to the work involved. Regretfully there is no legislation that mandates fixed charges for administrative tasks. Nor is there any set time frame by which they are obliged to issue the information.