My husband and I are planning to buy a flat in Holyhead and are in fact using a Holyhead conveyancing practice. Within the last couple of days our lawyer has sent a preliminary report and documents to look through in anticipation of exchanging contracts shortly. Nationwide Building Society have this afternoon contacted us to advise us that they have now hit a problem as our Holyhead conveyancer is not on their approved list of lawyers. What do we do from here?
Where you are buying a property needing a mortgage it is standard for the purchasers' solicitors to also represent the purchaser's lender. In order to act for a bank or building society a law firm has to be on that lender's conveyancing panel. An application has to be made by the law firm to the lender to become a member of the lender's panel and there are increasingly strict criteria which the firm has to satisfy and indeed some lenders now require their panel members to be part of the Law Society’s Conveyancing Accreditation Scheme. Your property lawyer should contact your mortgage company and see if they can apply for membership of their conveyancing panel, but if that is not viable they will instruct their own lawyers to represent them. You are not legally obliged to appoint a law firm on the bank's conveyancing panel and you may continue to use your own Holyhead solicitors, in which case it will likely add costs, and it may delay matters as you have another set of people involved.
How do I discover of the solicitor carrying out my conveyancing in Holyhead is on the bank’sapproved panel? I am looking to avoid the situation of having one lawyer for me and one for Halifax thus spending £175.00 in supplemental conveyancing costs.
Please do take advantage of the find a lender approved solicitor tool on this web page. Please choose the mortgage company and type ‘Holyhead’ or your location and you will discover a number of lawyer based in Holyhead or near you.
I used Wolstenholmes several years ago for my conveyancing in Holyhead. I now require my papers however the law firm is no longer operating. What do I do?
You should contact 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 Holyhead of the conveyancing firm of solicitors you previously instructed, the name of conveyancing solicitor with whom you had dealings, and the date on which you last had dealings with the firm.
My company is looking to lease a unit on a shopping parade. Can you recommend conveyancers offering fixed fees for commercial conveyancing in Holyhead for less than 1500k?
We can recommend firms who host a wealth of experience of commercial conveyancing in Holyhead, including the disposal and purchase of businesses as well as simply property. If you are intending to buy or sell a shop, pub, restaurant, office, retail premises or a whole business we can find you the right firm. Regarding the fees this will depend on the structure and terms of the deal. Please provide us with your details or telephone us so that we can furnish you with a detailed commercial conveyancing quote.
My partner has urged me to instruct his lawyers for conveyancing in Holyhead. Should I choose my own property lawyer?
No doubt the ideal way to select a conveyancing solicitor is to seek recommendations from friends or family who have actually experience in using the solicitor that you are are thinking of instructing.