Finally the sale completed on my house in East Hunsbury last February yet the purchaser is texting every few hours to moan that their lawyer is waiting to hear from mysolicitor. What are the post completion sale legalities following completion?

After completion of your disposal your conveyancer should forward the transfer documentation and all supplemental paperwork to the buyer’s conveyancer. Depending on the transaction, your conveyancer must also confirm that the home loan has been repaid to the purchasers conveyancers. There are no post completion procedures just for conveyancing in East Hunsbury.

I am selling my house in East Hunsbury. Will my lawyer have to be required to be on the Leeds Building Society conveyancing panel in order to deal with repayment of my mortgage?

Ordinarily, even if your lawyer is not on the Leeds Building Society conveyancing panel they can still act for you on your sale. It might be that the lender will not release the original deeds (if applicable and increasingly irrelevant) until after the mortgage is paid off. You should speak to your lawyer directly before you start the process though to ensure that there is no problem as lenders are changing their panel criteria fairly frequently in recent years.

Will commercial conveyancing searches reveal proposed roadworks that may impact a commercial estate in East Hunsbury?

Its becoming the norm that commercial conveyancing solicitors in East Hunsbury will perform a SiteSolutions Highways report as it dramatically cuts the time that conveyancers spend in looking into accurate data on highways that impact buildings and development assets in East Hunsbury. The search result provides definitive information on the adoption status of roads, footpaths and verges, as well as the implication of traffic schemes and the rights of way surrounding a commercial development sites in East Hunsbury.

For each commercial conveyancing transaction in East Hunsbury it is crucial to investigate the adoption status of roads surrounding a site. Failure to identify developments where adoption procedures have not been addressed adequately may result in delays to East Hunsbury commercial conveyancing transactions as well as present a risk to future intentions for the site. These searches are not conducted for domestic conveyancing in East Hunsbury.

The deeds to my home are lost. The solicitors who did the conveyancing in East Hunsbury 10 years ago are no longer around. What do I do?

Gone are the days when you need to have the physical deeds to prove you are the owner of your registered land or property, as the Land Registry hold details of all registered land or property electronically.

Just had an offer accepted on a new build apartment in East Hunsbury. Conveyancing is a frightening process at the best of times but I have never purchased a new build flat before. What sort of enquires would be asked in new build legal work.

Here are examples of a selection of leasehold new build questions that you may expect your new-build leasehold conveyancing in East Hunsbury

Investor purchasers must be able to freely grant unsecured tenancies at market rents without requiring any consents. Will control of the Management Company (if any) be handed over to purchasers on completion of the last sale or earlier? Please supply a car parking plan. Where there is an Undertaking being granted there is the risk of forfeiture of the Headlease subject to relief if one or more of the Underlessees are willing to accept the original Head Lessee’s obligations as otherwise relief will be denied to the Underlessees. The only alternatives are the Head Lessor agreeing not to forfeit the Headlease or the Head Lessee guaranteeing to the Underlessees that it will not be in breach of the Headlease.