I have given 2 months notice to my current landlord and have to be out of my let out apartment in Llandough by 2/9/2025. Conveyancing for my house purchase has just started. Can I complete in 5 weeks as I wish to avoid having to find temporary accommodation?

It is unwise to serve notice for your lease unless exchange of contracts has taken place. If you have not already done so, speak to your solicitor and ask them to they apply pressure on the other side, try to get a realistic time scale from them that everyone will aim to achieve

When can the exchange of contracts take place for residential conveyancing in Llandough and do I need to attend the lawyers branch?

Where you are local to our conveyancing solicitors in Llandough you are invited in to sign contracts. That being said, the lender approved solicitors we work with provide countrywide coverage for conveyancing and provide just as detailed and professional a job for you when communicating with you by post or email. The signing of the contract is not when everything is set in stone. A signed contract simply enables the firm to address the formalities at the appropriate time, which will usually be very shortly after signing. The procedure is is usually a five minute process, although where a lengthy "chain" is in play, since the process requires the relevant party's solicitor (not necessarily a conveyancing solicitor in Llandough)to be in the office at the appropriate time.

The estate agent has sent us the confirmation of our purchase of a new build apartment in Llandough. Conveyancing is necessary evil 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 questions that you can expect your new-build leasehold conveyancing in Llandough

If there are lifts in the building, please confirm that the owners of flats on the ground and basement floors will not be required to contribute towards the cost of maintenance and renewal. Has the Lease plan been approved by the Land Registry and if not when will they be lodged for this purpose? Investor purchasers must be able to freely grant unsecured tenancies at market rents without requiring any consents. Will the freehold then be transferred for a nominal consideration (not exceeding £100) to the Management Company? The Landlord must covenant to assume the management if the Management Company goes into liquidation or otherwise defaults in running the management scheme.

Having had my offer accepted I require leasehold conveyancing in Llandough. Before diving in I require certainty as to the unexpired term of the lease.

If the lease is recorded at the land registry - and 99.9% are in Llandough - then the leasehold title will always include the basic details 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.

Llandough Conveyancing for Leasehold Flats - A selection of Queries before buying

Can you tell me if there are any major works on the horizon that could add a premium to the service fees? On the whole the outlay for major works tend not to be wrapped into the maintenance charges, albeit that some managing agents in Llandough ask leasehold owners to contribute towards a sinking fund and this is used to offset against larger repairs or maintenance. The prefered form of lease arrangement is where the freehold interest is owned by the leaseholders. In this situation the lessees benefit from control and although a managing agent is frequently retained where it is bigger than a house conversion, the managing agent acts for the leaseholders themselves.

I am buying a leasehold flat in Llandough. Conveyancing estimates are averaging around £two thousand. Is that reasonable?

The average cost in 2014 for conveyancing in Llandough was just under one thousand five hundred pounds excluding Land Tax and HM Land Registry charges.