Despite weeks of looking the Title Certificate and documents to our property can not be found. The lawyers who conducted the conveyancing in Farnham Royal 4 years ago are no longer around. What are my options?

Assuming you have a registered title the details of your ownership will be evidenced by the Land Registry under a Title Number. It is possible to conduct a search at the Land Registry, find your house and order current copies of the Registered Entries for a small fee. If the property is Leasehold then the Land Registry will usually hold a file duplicate of the Registered Lease and again, a copy can be obtained for £20 inclusive of VAT.

Just had an offer accepted on a new build flat in Farnham Royal. Conveyancing is necessary evil at the best of times but I have never purchased a new build flat before. Can you give me some examples of some of the questions asked in new build legal work.

Set out below are examples of a few leasehold new build enquiries that you may expect your new-build leasehold conveyancing in Farnham Royal

Investor purchasers must be able to freely grant unsecured tenancies at market rents without requiring any consents. Please provide evidence that the form of Lease proposed has been approved by the Land Registry. The Vendor must covenant to keep unoccupied units in good repair until long leases are granted therefore. Where service of notices and proceedings can be at the property demised please confirm that this can be amended to include simultaneous services at the Lessees’ solicitors’ offices where the Lessee from time to time is not resident in the UK - such solicitors may be varied by notice in writing to the Landlord from time to time but otherwise will be as previously specified. There must be mutual enforceability of lessee’s covenants.

I was advised by a couple of local selling agents in Farnham Royal to find a property lawyer using your seach tool. Is there a financial incentive for Estate Agents to promote your lawyers rather than alternative conveyancing organisations?

We refuse to give any referral fee for pointing buyers and sellers our way. We found it would be just too difficult a fee as members of the public would think, ‘How come the agent getting a kickback? Why aren’t I getting any benefit too?’ We would prefer to grow our business on genuine recommendations.

As co-executor for the will of my father I am selling a property in Swansea but I am based in Farnham Royal. My solicitor (approximately 260 kilometers from merequires that I sign a statutory declaration ahead of completion. Could you suggest a conveyancing practitioner in Farnham Royal who can attest this legal document for me?

strictly speaking you should not need to have the documents attested by a conveyancing solicitor. Ordinarily any notary public or solicitor will do regardless of whether they are Farnham Royal based

At what point do I cover the costs of the Stamp Duty Land Tax payable for my Farnham Royal flat purchase?

The majority of s will fill out a Land Transaction Return Form on your behalf during your Farnham Royal purchase transaction for you to sign. On completion your will submit the STL Return Form to the Tax Authorities and - assuming they have the money - pay any tax bill liability for you.