Why do I have to pay up front for my conveyancing in Goodmayes?

If you are buying a property in Goodmayes your lawyer will ask you place them with funds to cover the search fees. This will be the total of the cost of the conveyancing searches. When the deposit is as part of the purchase price then this will be asked for shortly in advance of exchange of contracts. The closing balance that is due should be sent to your lawyer shortly before completion.

My colleague advised me that if I am buying in Goodmayes I should ask my conveyancer to execute a Neighbourhood, Planning and Local Amenity Search. What does it cover?

This is a search is usually quoted for as part of the standard Goodmayes conveyancing searches. It is a large report of about 40 pages, listing and setting out significant information about Goodmayes around the property and the people living there. It includes an Aerial Photograph, Planning Applications, Land Use, Mobile Phone Masts, Rights of Way, the Goodmayes Housing Market, Council Tax Banding, the type of People living in the area, the dominant type of Housing, the Average Property Price, Crime statistics, Local Education with plans and statistics, Local Amenities and other useful information regarding Goodmayes.

Despite weeks of looking the Title Certificate and documents to my home are lost. The lawyers who did the conveyancing in Goodmayes 10 years ago are no longer around. What do I do?

Gone are the days when you need to hold title official documentation to evidence that you are the registered proprietor of land or premises, given that the Land Registry hold details of all registered land or property electronically.

The estate agent has sent us the confirmation of our purchase of a new build apartment in Goodmayes. Conveyancing is a frightening process 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.

Here are examples of a few leasehold new build questions that you may expect your new-build leasehold conveyancing in Goodmayes

Please confirm the Lease plans are surveyor prepared. Please provide evidence that the form of Lease proposed has been approved by the Land Registry. Please supply a car parking plan. If there are lifts in the building, please confirm that the owners of flats on the ground and basement floors will not be required to contribute towards the cost of maintenance and renewal. 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.

I was advised by a few selling agents in Goodmayes to find a property lawyer using your seach tool. Is there a financial advantage for Estate Agents to promote your lawyers rather than a competitor’s?

We don’t offer any commission for sending work to this site. We thought it would be too underhand a fee because a client could think, ‘Why is the agent getting a kickback? Why am I not receiving any benefit too?’ We would prefer to grow our business on genuine recommendations.