Can you vouch for a sanctioned Cambourne conveyancing practice finish our home move within two weeks? Would it be better to use a high street Cambourne solicitor or a factory type comparison site?

We would be happy to suggest some excellent Cambourne conveyancing firms. Another option is to visit the main road in Cambourne. Approach a couple of firms and ask to see a conveyancing solicitor for a costs illustration. Mention your expectations together with your reasons and ask for an assurance on speed. Choose the lawyer that appears most efficient.

Do the Building Society Association intend to launch a online directory to list solicitors on the conveyancing panel for example in Cambourne?

LenderPanel has not been advised of any plans on the part of the BSA to promote such a tool.

My colleague advised me that where I am buying in Cambourne I should carry out a Neighbourhood, Planning and Local Amenity Search. Can you explain what the purpose of this search is?

This is a search is sometimes included in the estimate for your Cambourne conveyancing searches. It is not a small document of about 40 pages, listing and setting out significant information about Cambourne around the property and the people living there. It includes an Aerial Photograph, Planning Applications, Land Use, Mobile Phone Masts, Rights of Way, the Cambourne Housing Market, Council Tax Banding, the type of People living in the area, the dominant type of Housing, the Average Property Price, Crime details, Cambourne Education with plans and statistics, Local Amenities and other useful information concerning Cambourne.

I invested in buying a basement flat in Cambourne, conveyancing having been completed 1995. Can you give me give me an indication of the likely cost of a lease extension? Comparable properties in Cambourne with a long lease are worth £165,000. The average or mid-range amount of ground rent is £45 charged once a year. The lease ceases on 21st October 50

With only 50 years unexpired we estimate the premium for your lease extension to span between £36,100 and £41,800 as well as plus your own and the landlord's "reasonable" professional fees.

The figure that we have given is a general guide to costs for extending a lease, but we cannot give you a more accurate figure without more comprehensive due diligence. Do not use this information in a Notice of Claim or as an informal offer. There may be other issues that need to be considered and clearly you want to be as accurate as possible in your negotiations. Neither should you move forward based on this information without first getting professional advice.

My 20yr old son is just in the process of moving house, he had his mortgage in principle. After the offer was accepted on apartment we contacted the bank to issue the formal offer. I was very surprised to learn that mortgage companies do not accept all , they must be on their panel, is this right?

Lenders normally restrict either the type or the number of conveyancing firms on their panel. A common example of such restriction(s) being that a firm must have two or more partners. In addition to restricting the type of firm, some have decided to limit the number of firms they use to represent them. You should note that banks have no responsibility for the quality of advice provided by any Cambourne on their panel. Mortgage fraud was a key driver in the rationalisation of conveyancing panels a few years ago and whilst there are differing views about the extent of solicitor involvement in some of that fraud. Statistics from the Land Registry reveal that thousands of law firms only carry out one or two conveyances a year. Those supporting conveyancing panel cuts ask why law firms should have the right to be on a Lender panel when clearly, conveyancing is not their speciality. To put it another way; would you want a conveyancing solicitor to represent you if you were charged with a crime? Probably not.