Our nephew is about to exchange on a new build apartment in Grove Park with a mortgage from . His lawyer has advised him of a delay in completing the ‘Disclosure of Incentive Form’. Who needs to receive the form?

The document is intended to provide information to the main parties involved in the transaction. Therefore, it will be provided to your son’s lawyer who should be on the conveyancing panel as a standard part of the process, and to the valuer when requested. The developer will be required to start the process by downloading the form and completing it. The form will therefore need to be available for the valuer at the time of his or her site visit. The form should be sent to the conveyancing panel solicitor as early as possible, in order to avoid any last minute delays, and no later than at exchange of contracts.

My friend advised me that where I am buying in Grove Park I should ask my conveyancer to perform a Neighbourhood, Planning and Local Amenity Search. What does it cover?

This is a search is usually quoted for as part of the standard Grove Park conveyancing searches. It is not a small report of more than thirty pages, listing and setting out significant information about Grove Park around the property and the people living there. It incorporates an Aerial Photograph, Planning Applications, Land Use, Mobile Phone Masts, Rights of Way, the local Housing Market, Council Tax Banding, the demographics of People living in the area, the dominant type of Housing, the Average House Prices, Crime details, Grove Park Education with plans and statistics, Local Amenities and other useful information about Grove Park.

I completed on my flat on 9 February and the transaction details is yet to be registered. Need I be worried? My conveyancing solicitor in Grove Park said it will be dealt with in a couple of weeks. Are titles in Grove Park uniquely lengthy to register?

There is nothing unique when it comes to conveyancing in Grove Park registration formalities. As opposed to being determined by geographic area, timeframes can vary depending on the party submitting the application, whether there are errors and if the Land registry need to notify any interested parties. At present approximately 80% of such applications are completed within two weeks but some can be subject to protracted delays. Registration takes place once the buyer is living at the property therefore 'speed' is not typically an essential issue but if there is a degree of urgency associated with the registration then you or your lawyers must communicate with the Registry to express the reasoning for an expedited registration.

I was recommended by a number of selling agents in Grove Park to locate a conveyancer using your seach tool. What’s the financial advantage for Estate Agents to recommend your lawyers ahead of alternative conveyancing organisations?

We refuse to make any referral fee for sending work in our direction. We found it would be just too difficult to pay a commission as home movers will think, ‘Why is the agent getting a kickback? Why aren’t I receiving any benefit too?’ So we decided to step away from that.

A licensed conveyancer acted on my conveyancing in Grove Park half a dozen years ago having retained my deeds but has since been shut down – What steps do I now take to retreive them?

Deeds, as such, are no longer appropriate for the majority of properties in Grove Park are recorded electronically at Land Registry. If you need to show evidence of proprietorship or are disposing of or re-mortgaging your will need to obtain up to date copies of the register from the Land Registry in any case.

If you feel there may be other documents or you have any other queries please e-mail your request with details of the transaction and documents you need to filerequest@clc-uk.org. The CLC will let you know what information they have and any additional information they may need before they are in a position to identify and send the documents to you. Following an intervention it may take some time for the CLC to access archived files and documents, but your request will be actioned as quickly as possible.