We are purchasing a detached bungalow in Kingsbury. The intention is to an extension at the rear at the house.Will legal conveyancing on the property involve investigations to ascertain if these alterations are allowed?

Your conveyancer should check the registered title as conveyancing in Kingsbury will sometimes identify restrictions in the title deeds which restrict categories of works or necessitated the permission of another owner. Some works call for local authority planning permissions and approval in compliance with building regulations. Many areas are designated conservation areas and special planning restrictions apply which frequently prevent or impact extensions. You should check these issues with a surveyor before you commit yourself to a purchase.

Is it the case that all Kingsbury conveyancing solicitors on the conveyancing panel are governed by the SRA?

As a firm of solicitors, in order to be on the approved list of solicitors they would need to be governed by the Solicitors Regulatory Authority. The majority of lenders do allow licenced conveyancers on their panel in which case such firms would be governed by the CLC.

Two weeks ago we had a mortgage agreed in principle with . Kingsbury conveyancing practitioners have been instructed. How long does it take for to forward the offer to the ?

There is no definitive answer here. Have done the valuation? Have you advised as to your lawyers' details and checked that your lawyers are on the conveyancing panel? Sometimes it can take as long as six weeks for a mortgage offer to be issued.

I am planning on selling our home in Kingsbury and the buyers lawyers are claiming that there is a possibility that the property was built on contaminated land. Any high street Kingsbury conveyancer would know that there is no such problem. For the life of me I don't know why the buyers used a national conveyancing practice as opposed to a conveyancing solicitor in Kingsbury. We have lived in Kingsbury for three years we know that this is a non issue. Do we contact our local Authority to get confirmation that there is no issue.

It sounds as though you may have a conveyancing firm already. Are they able to advise? You should check with your lawyer before you do anything. It is very possible that once the local authority has been informed of a potential issue it cannot be insured against (a bit like being diagnosed with a serious illness and then taking out health insurance to cover that same illness)

Just had an offer accepted on a new build apartment in Kingsbury. Conveyancing is necessary evil 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 conveyancing.

Set out below is a sample of a selection of leasehold new build enquiries that you can expect your new-build leasehold conveyancing in Kingsbury

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. Forfeiture - bankruptcy or liquidation must not apply under this provision. There must be mutual enforceability of lessee’s covenants. Please supply a car parking plan. Will control of the Management Company (if any) be handed over to purchasers on completion of the last sale or earlier?

Leasehold Conveyancing in Kingsbury - Sample of Queries Prior to buying

The best form of lease arrangement is if the freehold interest is owned by the leaseholders. In this arrangement the leaseholders enjoy being in charge if their destiny and even though a managing agent is usually retained if the building is bigger than a house conversion, the managing agent acts for the leaseholders themselves. Who are the managing agents? Is there a share of the freehold?

The conveyancers carrying out our conveyancing in Kingsbury has forwarded documents to review that indicate that the property is unregistered with epitome documents. Why is the property not yet recorded at HM Land Regsitry?

It is unusual for property in Kingsbury not to be registered. An 'epitome' is basically a dossier of photocopies of documents affecting an unregistered title. Plenty of Kingsbury conveyancing practitioners should be familiar with such matters but where uncertainty reigns the prevailing proposition nowadays is for the vendor’s solicitor to register it first and then deal with the disposal - this will have a knock on effect to result in a protracted transaction.