A mortgage offer from Santander for the remortgage of my 4 room maisonette is to be issued any day now. Can you propose a cheap conveyancing practitioner in Morden Park?

This site is not designed to help those in pursuit of the lowest fares for conveyancing solicitors in Morden Park. Our intention is to offer value for money conveyancing but our intention is not to work with the cheapest lawyers. Resist the temptation to appoint brokers enticing you with £100 conveyancing in Morden Park. Optimistically, in deciding on cheap conveyancing, you will get your money’s worth and at worst you will end up being stung for extras and still not receive the service expected.

I am acquiring a house for cash in Morden Park. I have lived for the last twelve years in Morden Park. Conveyancing searches are expensive. As I know the area and road very well must I have all the conveyancing searches?

Provided that you do not need a home loan, then all but one or two of the Morden Park conveyancing searches are optional. Your lawyer will ’encourage you, no-doubt strongly, that you should have searches completed, but she is duty bound to do this. Do take into account; if you are intend to sell the house one day, it will likely be be of relevance to your future buyer what the searches reveal. There are plenty of instances where houses with apparent issues can still reveal negative search results. A competent conveyancing solicitor in Morden Park should provide you some constructive advice in this regard.

I am helping my step-mother sell her house in Morden Park. Will the conveyancing solicitor order the EPC or do I organise this?

After the abolition of HIPs, EPC’s was kept a required part of selling a property. An energy performance certificate should be to hand prior to the property being advertised. This is not something that conveyancers normally arrange. If you are using a Morden Park conveyancing solicitor they might help arrange EPC’s due to their relationships with long established local accredited person

A friend advised me that in buying a property in Morden Park there could be various restrictions affecting the ability to carry out external changes to the property. Is this right?

There are a number of properties in Morden Park which have some sort of restriction or requirement of consent to execute external variations. Part of the conveyancing in Morden Park should determine what restrictions are applicable and advising you as part of a ROT that should be sent to you.

I recently had an offer accepted on a house in Morden Park. My mortgage broker pressured me to appoint their . I paid an advanced payment of £200. A few days later, the called me embarrassingly acknowledging that they were not on the conveyancing panel. Am I right in thinking that I should be due a refund?

You should be able to recover this from the law firm if they were not on the panel. They should have asked at the outset which lender you were obtaining a mortgage with. An important lesson to readers of this site is to check that the lawyers are on the appropriate lender panel.

Yesterday I discovered that there is a flying freehold issue on a property I put an offer in two weeks back in what should have been a quick, chain free conveyancing. Morden Park is where the house is located. What do you suggest?

Flying freeholds in Morden Park are not the norm but are more likely to exist in relation to terraced houses. Even though you don't necessarily need a conveyancing solicitor in Morden Park you must be sure that your lawyer goes through the deeds thoroughly. Your bank may require your conveyancing solicitor to take out an indemnity policy. Some of the more diligent conveyancing solicitors in Morden Park may decide that this is not enough and that the deeds be re-written to give you the most up to date legal protection. If so, the next door neighbour also had to sign up to the revised deeds.It is possible that your lender will not accept the situation so the sooner you find out the better. You should also check with your insurance broker as to whether they will insure a flying freehold premises.

I own a garden flat in Morden Park, conveyancing was carried out half a dozen years ago. Can you let me have an estimated range of the fair premium for a lease extension? Comparable properties in Morden Park with an extended lease are worth £165,000. The ground rent is £45 per annum. The lease runs out on 21st October 50

You have 50 years remaining on your lease we estimate the premium for your lease extension to range between £36,100 and £41,800 as well as costs.

The suggested premium range that we have given is a general guide to costs for renewing a lease, but we cannot give you the actual costs without more comprehensive investigations. Do not use the figures in a Notice of Claim or as an informal offer. There may be additional concerns that need to be considered and clearly you should be as accurate as possible in your negotiations. Neither should you move forward placing reliance on this information before getting professional advice.