Is the fact that my solicitor in Crews Hill is not identified on my bank's conveyancing panel that there is a problem with the standard of her work?
That would most likely be an incorrect assumption to make. There are all sorts of perfectly plausible explanations. Just recently a report by the solicitors regulator indicated that over three quarters of law firms surveyed had been removed from at least one lender panel. The most common reasons for removal are: (1) lack of transactions (2) the lawyer is a sole practitioner (3) as part of the HSBC panel reduction (4) regulatory contact by SRA (5) accidental removal. Should you be concerned you should contact the Crews Hill conveyancing firm and enquire why they are no longer on the approved list for your bank.
We are planning to acquire a flat and need a conveyancing solicitor in Crews Hill who is on the Santander solicitor panel. Could you point me in the right direction as regards a firm?
Our service is limited to being a directory service for firms who wish to be listed as being on the approved conveyancing panel for Santander . We don't recommend any particular firms conducting conveyancing in Crews Hill.
Will our solicitor be asking questions concerning flooding during the conveyancing in Crews Hill.
The risk of flooding is if increasing concern for solicitors dealing with homes in Crews Hill. Plenty of people will purchase a house in Crews Hill, fully expectant that at some time, it may suffer from flooding. However, leaving to one side the physical destruction, where a property is at risk of flooding, it may be difficult to get a mortgage, satisfactory building insurance, or dispose of the property. There are steps that can be taken as part of the conveyancing process to forewarn the purchaser.
Conveyancers are not qualified to impart advice on flood risk, but there are a number of searches that may be undertaken by the purchaser or on a buyer’s behalf which can figure out the risks in Crews Hill. The conventional set of property information forms given to a purchaser’s conveyancer (where the solicitors are adopting what is known as the Conveyancing Protocol) incorporates a usual inquiry of the seller to discover whether the property has historically flooded. If flooding has previously occurred and is not notified by the vendor, then a purchaser may issue a compensation claim resulting from an inaccurate response. The buyer’s solicitors should also commission an enviro search. This should disclose whether there is any known flood risk. If so, more detailed inquiries will need to be conducted.
As co-executor for the will of my aunt I am selling a property in Swansea but reside in Crews Hill. My lawyer (approximately 235 miles from merequires that I execute a stat dec ahead of the transaction finalising. Can you recommend a conveyancing lawyer in Crews Hill to witness and place their company stamp on the document?
strictly speaking you should not need to have the documents attested by a conveyancing solicitor. Ordinarily any notary public or qualified solicitor will do regardless of whether they are located in Crews Hill
I am on look out for some leasehold conveyancing in Crews Hill. Before I get started I would like to find out the remaining lease term.
If the lease is registered - and most are in Crews Hill - then the leasehold title will always include the short particulars of the lease, namely the date; the term; and the original parties. From a conveyancing perspective such details then enable any prospective buyer and lender to confirm that any lease they are looking at is the one relevant to that title. For any other purpose, such as confirming how long the term was granted for and calculating what is left, then the register should be sufficient on it's own.
Following months of correspondence we simply can't agree with our landlord on how much the lease extension should cost for our flat in Crews Hill. Can we issue an application to the Residential Property Tribunal Service?
Where there is a absentee landlord or where there is dispute about what the lease extension should cost, under the relevant legislation it is possible to make an application to the Leasehold Valuation Tribunal to judgment on the premium.
An example of a Freehold Enfranchisement matter before the tribunal for a Crews Hill flat is 23 Beaconsfield Road in July 2013. The Tribunals decided that the amount payable was £31,203 for the freehold. This case was in relation to 2 flats. The unexpired term was 70.31 years.