This question may be naive but I am unseasoned as FTB of a ground floor flat in Eccleston. Do I receive the keys to the premises on the completion date from my conveyancer? If this is the case, I will find a High Street conveyancing solicitor in Eccleston?

There is no need to visit the lawyers office on the day of completion. Your solicitors will arrange to send the completion advance to the owner’s solicitors, and once they have received this, you will be called to receive the keys from the selling Agents and start moving into the property. This tends to happen early afternoon.

I'm the single recipient of my late grandmother’s will with all property in now in my sole name, including the my former home in Eccleston. Conveyancing formalities meant that the Land Registry date was in August. I plan to dispose of the house. I do know about the CML 6 month 'rule', meaning my proprietorship may be considered the same way as if I'd bought the property in August. Do I have to wait half a year to sell?

The Council of Mortgage Lenders’ handbook obliges solicitors to: "report to us immediately if the owner or registered proprietor has been registered for less than six months." By the strict wording you might be caught by that. many mortgage companies would take a sensible view as this provision is chiefly there to identify subsales or the flipping of property.

I recently had an offer accepted on an apartment in Eccleston. My financial adviser pressured me to appoint their conveyancer. I paid an upfront payment of £175. Soon after, the conveyancing practitioner contacted me embarrassingly acknowledging that they were not on the RBS conveyancing panel. Am I right in thinking that I should be due a refund?

You should be able to recover this from the law firm if they were not on the RBS panel. They should have asked at the outset which lender you were obtaining a mortgage with. An important lesson to readers of this site is to check that the lawyers are on the appropriate lender panel.

I used Wolstenholmes a few years past for my conveyancing in Eccleston. Now, I need my files however cannot find the solicitor. What do I do?

You should call the Solicitors Regulatory Authority (SRA) to help locate your conveyancing files. They can be contacted on please contact on 0870 606 2555. Alternatively, you should use their online form to make an enquiry. You will need to provide the SRA with as much information as possible to assist their search, including the name and address in Eccleston of the conveyancing firm of solicitors you previously hired, the name of conveyancing solicitor with whom you had dealings, and the date on which you last had dealings with the firm.

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I am 3 weeks into a freehold purchase having been referred to a firm by the high street agent to perform conveyancing in Eccleston. I am am extremely disappointed with the level of service. Can you you assist me in finding new conveyancers?

A conveyancer would have to be really poor to suggest changing them. Has your loan offer been generated? In the event that it has you will need to advise them of the new contact details and have the offer are re-sent. The solicitor ideally should be on the mortgage company approved list to avoid added costs and frustration. That should be your first question of the new solicitors. The search tool will help you find a lender approved solicitor for your home move in Eccleston

What makes a Eccleston lease unmortgageable?

Leasehold conveyancing in Eccleston is not unique. Most leases are unique and legal mistakes in the legal wording can result in certain clauses are missing. For example, if your lease is missing any of the following, it could be defective:

Repairing obligations to or maintain parts of the premises

A defective lease can cause issues when trying to sell a property as they can affect a potential buyer’s ability to obtain a mortgage. Accord Mortgages Ltd, Skipton Building Society, and TSB all have express requirements when it comes to what is expected in a lease. Where a lender has been advised by their lawyers that the lease does not cover certain provisions they may refuse to provide security, obliging the buyer to pull out.

Leasehold Conveyancing in Eccleston - Examples of Queries before Purchasing

Does the lease have onerous restrictions? Best to be warned whether changing the roof or some other significant cost is pending to be shared by the leasehold owners and could well dramatically increase the the service fees or require a one off payment. Who is in charge of the block?