Recently contacted my conveyancing solicitor in Hornsey Rise who completed the legal work 18 months ago asking for a conveyancing estimate based on the same type of house sale & purchase (a leasehold residence and a freehold premises) of almost identical values with a loan from Birmingham Midshires. I am now being charged twice the amount. Am I right to be tempted to shop around for a cheaper internet firm of conveyancing solicitor?

The charges appear a little high. If you are prepared to expend time scrutinising quotes you might trim some of the expense by perhaps a hundred pounds. That being said, providing that you were content with the assistance the firm offered you maycome to regret opting for an an untested lawyer. If is important to be sure the conveyancer can also act for Birmingham Midshires. You can utilise our search tool to get a quote a Hornsey Rise conveyancing firm on the Birmingham Midshires approved list of lawyers, which can often include conveyancing solicitors in Hornsey Rise.

Do I have to visit the offices of the solicitor to execute the legal charge? If so, I will appoint a lawyer who conducts conveyancing in Hornsey Rise so that I can attend their offices when needed.

As opposed to 15 years ago, most mortgage companies no longer oblige their conveyancing panel lawyer to witness the borrowers signature. You will still be obliged to hand over ID documents and there are still manifest advantages to instructing a locally based ayer, in your situation a conveyancing solicitor in Hornsey Rise.

I'm buying my first flat in Hornsey Rise with a loan from Halifax. The builders refused to reduce the amount so I negotiated five thousand pounds worth of fixtures and fittings instead. The property agent suggested that I not to tell my solicitor about the side-deal as it would affect my loan with the lender. Is this normal?.

All lenders require a Disclosure of Incentives Form from the builder of any new build, converted or renovated property, It is available online from the Lenders’ Handbook page on the CML website. CML form is completed and handed to the lender's surveyor when the inspection is done.

Lenders have different policies on incentives. Some accept none at all, cash or physical, while others will accept cash incentives up to 5%.

Hard to understand why the representative of a builder would be suggesting you withold information from a solicitor when all this will be clearly visible on forms the builder has to supply to its solicitor, the buyer's solicitor and the surveyor.

I was pointed in your direction by a number of estate agents in Hornsey Rise to choose a conveyancer on your site. Is there a financial incentive for Estate Agents to offer your site over and above alternative conveyancing organisations?

We refuse to offer any financial incentive for pointing buyers and sellers to this site. We found it would be just too difficult a fee as home movers will think, ‘Why is the agent getting a kickback? Why aren’t I getting any benefit too?’ So we decided to step away from that.

I am on look out for some leasehold conveyancing in Hornsey Rise. Before I get started I would like to find out the unexpired term of the lease.

If the lease is registered - and most are in Hornsey Rise - then the leasehold title will always include the short particulars of the lease, namely the date; the term; and the original parties. From a conveyancing perspective such details then enable any prospective buyer and lender to confirm that any lease they are looking at is the one relevant to that title. For any other purpose, such as confirming how long the term was granted for and calculating what is left, then the register should be sufficient on it's own.

After months of correspondence we are unable to agree with our landlord on how much the lease extension should cost for our flat in Hornsey Rise. Does the Leasehold Valuation Tribunal have jurisdiction to calculate the appropriate figures?

if there is a missing landlord or where there is disagreement about the premium for a lease extension, under the relevant statutes you can apply to the LVT to calculate the amount due.

An example of a Freehold Enfranchisement case for a Hornsey Rise premises is 51 Lorne Road in November 2009. The price Payable as decided by the tribunal for the freehold reversion was £27,000. The valuation follows the order of the County Court made on 3 April 2008 granting a vesting order. This case was in relation to 1 flat. The unexpired lease term was 71 years.