My wife and I are hoping to purchase a house in Kentish Town and have instructed a Kentish Town conveyancing practice. Within the past 48 hours our lawyer has forwarded the sale agreement to be signed with a detailed report in anticipation of exchanging contracts shortly. have this morning contacted us to inform me that there is now an issue as our Kentish Town solicitor is not on their conveyancing panel. Please explain?

Where you are buying a property requiring a mortgage it is conventional for the purchasers' lawyers to also represent the mortgage company. 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 Quality Scheme. Your solicitor should contact your bank and see if they can apply for membership of their conveyancing panel, but if that is not viable they will instruct their own solicitors to act. You are not legally obliged to appoint a law firm on the lender’s conveyancing panel as you are at liberty to use your preferred Kentish Town lawyers, in which case it will likely add costs, and it will likely delay the transaction as you have another set of people involved.

Can I use your services to locate a Conveyancing solicitor in Kentish Town even if I’m not buying or disposing of a house, for instance if I intend to buy an office in Kentish Town with a mortgage from ?

Our comparison service is predominantly used to locate residential conveyancing solicitors in Kentish Town but we have recorded at the bottom of this page some Kentish Town commercial conveyancing firms. You will need to speak with the solicitors directly to see if they can also act for

What will a local search inform me regarding the property I am buying in Kentish Town?

Kentish Town conveyancing often commences with the submitting local authority searches directly from your local Authority or via a personal search company for example Searches UK The local search is essential in every Kentish Town conveyancing purchase; that is if you don’t want any nasty once you have moved into your property. The search will reveal information on, amongst other things, details on planning applications relevant to the property (whether granted or refused), building control history, any enforcement action, restrictions on permitted development, nearby road schemes, contaminated land and radon gas; in all a total of 13 subject headings.

Just had an offer accepted on a new build apartment in Kentish Town. Conveyancing is a frightening process at the best of times but I have never purchased a new build flat before. What sort of enquires would be asked in new build legal work.

Here is a sample of a few leasehold new build enquiries that you may expect your new-build leasehold conveyancing in Kentish Town

Where there is an Undertaking being granted there is the risk of forfeiture of the Headlease subject to relief if one or more of the Underlessees are willing to accept the original Head Lessee’s obligations as otherwise relief will be denied to the Underlessees. The only alternatives are the Head Lessor agreeing not to forfeit the Headlease or the Head Lessee guaranteeing to the Underlessees that it will not be in breach of the Headlease. Please provide evidence that the form of Lease proposed has been approved by the Land Registry. Investor purchasers must be able to freely grant unsecured tenancies at market rents without requiring any consents. There must be mutual enforceability of lessee’s covenants. Please supply a car parking plan.

I am 17 days into a freehold purchase having been referred to a firm by the selling agent to handle our conveyancing in Kentish Town. I am am extremely frustrated with the quality of service. Could you help me find new solicitors?

They would have to be very poor to suggest changing them. Has your mortgage been sent? In the event that it has you will need to advise them of the new contact details and have the loan are issued to the new lawyers. The solicitor ideally should be on the lenders approved list to avoid supplemental fees and frustration. So that should be your starting point. The find a solicitor tool should assist you in finding a lender approved solicitor for your conveyancing in Kentish Town