Can I use your services to find a Conveyancing solicitor in New Invention even where I’m not purchasing or selling a house, for instance where I wish to buy an office in New Invention with a mortgage from Halifax?

Our comparison service is mainly used to get a quote from residential conveyancing solicitors in New Invention but we have set out at the end of this page a selection of New Invention commercial conveyancing firms. You should enquire with the firm directly to check if they can also act for Halifax

Have just purchased a probate house at auction in New Invention. Conveyancing is needed. What are my next steps?

Now that you have to all intents and purposes signed on the dotted line you will need to choose a conveyancing lawyer quickly as you now have a fast approaching a fixed date to complete the deal. Every auction property will have a corresponding legal pack. This will likely include the copy title deeds, local authority and drainage searches. Where you are dealing with leasehold premises the legal pack should contain a copy of the lease, management information and a sellers leasehold information form and other conveyancing paperwork pertinent to a leasehold property. You must hand this to your appointed conveyancing solicitor as soon as possible. You also need to ensure that you have funds in place to complete the transaction on the set completion date.

How can we know in advance if a New Invention conveyancing solicitor on the Yorkshire BS panel is any good?

When it comes to conveyancing in New Invention getting recommendations is a sensible start. Before you go ahead, check if they offer a no sale no fee offer. Also, you often get what you pay for - a firm which quotes more, will often provide a better service than one which is cheap as chips. We would always advise that you speak with the solicitor conducting your transaction.

My wife and I are at the point of looking at houses in New Invention and I am about to put in an offer. Is it advisable to have a property lawyer on ‘stand by’? I intend to finance via a home loan with Co-operative.

You should start obtaining conveyancing estimates from solicitors ASAP. Once you decide who you want to use and once your offer is accepted you can instruct them to work for you and pass their details on to the estate agent. Given that you are obtaining a mortgage with Co-operative, make sure you remember to check that your lawyer is on the Co-operative conveyancing panel.

A friend advised me that if I am buying in New Invention I should ask my conveyancer to carry out a Neighbourhood, Planning and Local Amenity Search. Can you explain what the purpose of this search is?

A search of this type is occasionally quoted for as part of the standard New Invention conveyancing searches. It is not a small report of about 40 pages, listing and detailing important information about New Invention around the property and the people living there. It incorporates an Aerial Photograph, Planning Applications, Land Use, Mobile Phone Masts, Rights of Way, the New Invention Housing Market, Council Tax Banding, the type of People living in the area, the dominant type of Housing, the Average House Prices, Crime statistics, Local Education with maps and statistics, Local Amenities and other useful information regarding New Invention.

I'm buying a new build house in New Invention with a mortgage from Bank of Scotland. The builders would not budge the price so I negotiated £7000 of extras instead. The property agent suggested that I not disclose to my conveyancer about this extras as it would affect my mortgage with Bank of Scotland. Should I keep quiet?.

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.

Yesterday I discovered that there is a flying freehold issue on a house I have offered on two weeks back in what was supposed to be a straight forward, no chain conveyancing. New Invention is the location of the property. Is there any advice you can give?

Flying freeholds in New Invention are not the norm but are more likely to exist in relation to terraced houses. Even where you use a solicitor outside New Invention you would need to get your solicitor to go through the deeds very carefully. Your mortgage company may require your conveyancing solicitor to take out an indemnity policy. Some of the more diligent conveyancing solicitors in New Invention may ascertain 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.