Completed the sale of my flat in Bourton on the Water last November yet the purchaser is SMS messaging every few hours to moan that her solicitor needs to hear from myconveyancer. What are the post completion sale formalities now that I have sold?

Following your house sale your lawyer is obliged to forward the transfer deeds and all of the paperwork to the buyer’s solicitors. If applicable, your lawyer should also send confirmation that the mortgage has been repaid to the purchasers lawyers. There is unlikely to be post completion formalities unique to conveyancing in Bourton on the Water.

A friend suggested that if I am purchasing in Bourton on the Water 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 occasionally included in the estimate for your Bourton on the Water conveyancing searches. It is a large report of about 40 pages, listing and setting out important information about Bourton on the Water around the property and the people living there. It includes 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 statistics, Local Education with maps and statistics, Local Amenities and other useful information concerning Bourton on the Water.

I decided to have a survey completed on a house in Bourton on the Water prior to instructing conveyancers. I have been informed that there is a flying freehold element to the house. Our surveyor has said that some mortgage companies may not give a mortgage on such a house.

It varies from the lender to lender. Santander has different instructions for example to Birmingham Midshires. Should you wish to telephone us we can check with the appropriate lender. If you lender is happy to lend one our lawyers can assist as they are accustomed to dealing with flying freeholds in Bourton on the Water. Conveyancing can be more complicated and therefore you should check with your conveyancing solicitor in Bourton on the Water to see if the conveyancing costs will increase in light of this.

Am I better off to go with a Bourton on the Water conveyancing solicitor based in the location that I am purchasing? An old friend can conduct the conveyancing but her office is a couple of hundredkilometers away.

The primary upside of using a high street Bourton on the Water conveyancing practice is that you can drop in to sign documents, deliver your ID and apply pressure on them where appropriate. Having local Bourton on the Water know how is a plus. However it's more important to get someone that will do a good and efficient job. If you know people who used your friend and in the main were impressed that should trump using an unknown Bourton on the Water conveyancing solicitor solely due to them being local.

I cannot attend my Bourton on the Water conveyancing lawyers office to sign documents connected to my conveyancing in Bourton on the Water – is this a problem?

Not a problem. Bourton on the Water conveyancing solicitors can deal with home moves for clients who are based anywhere. It is not necessary for you to be able to be present a Bourton on the Water conveyancers office. They can undertake everything remotely from their Bourton on the Water office.