A mortgage offer from HSBC for the refinancing of my 2 bedroom flat is due by the end of next week. Are you able to put forward a cheap conveyancing practitioner in Nunhead?
This site is not designed to help those in their quest for a cheap conveyancing solicitors in Nunhead. We can offer you affordable conveyancing but our intention is not to work with the cheapest lawyers. Do not be seduced by companies teasing you with low cost conveyancing in Nunhead. At best, in choosing a lawyer for low cost conveyancing, you will earn what you pay for and at worst it will result in you spending a lot in additional fees and still not get the service required.
We are purchasing a house and require a conveyancing solicitor in Nunhead who is on the Santander solicitor panel. Could you point me in the right direction as regards a conveyancing firm?
Our service is limited to being a directory service for firms who wish to be listed as being on the approved conveyancing panel for Santander . We don't recommend any particular firms conducting conveyancing in Nunhead.
I am remortgaging my house in Nunhead, does my lawyer need to be on the Lloyds Conveyancing panel?
There is nothing to stop you using your solicitor, but Lloyds will insist on their interests being represented by a firm on their conveyancing panel. There is greater potential for delays and confusion with two solicitors involved, and it will undoubtedly be more expensive too.
This question may be naive but I am wet behind the ears as FTB of a ground floor flat in Nunhead. Do I receive the keys to the property on the completion date from my solicitor? If this is the case, I will find a High Street conveyancing solicitor in Nunhead?
On the day of completion you do not need to go to the conveyancers office in Nunhead. Conveyancing lawyers for you will transfer the purchase money to the seller's conveyancers, and shortly after the monies have arrived, you should be called to collect the keys from the selling Agents and start moving into the property. Usually this happens early afternoon.
When it comes to lenders such as Lloyds, do Nunhead lawyers face an annual charge to be on the conveyancing panel?
We are unaware of any lender fees to register on their list of approved firms, although some do levy an administration charge to deal with the processing of the conveyancing panel application.
After much negotiation I have agreed a price on an apartment in Nunhead. My financial adviser suggested a solicitor. I paid an on account payment of £175. Not long after, the conveyancing practitioner called me to say that they were not on the Yorkshire BS 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 Yorkshire BS 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.
I work for a long established estate agency in Nunhead where we have experienced a few leasehold sales jeopardised as a result of leases having less than 80 years remaining. I have been given contradictory information from local Nunhead conveyancing solicitors. Please can you clarify whether the vendor of a flat can initiate the lease extension formalities for the buyer?
As long as the seller has been the owner for at least 2 years it is possible, to serve a Section 42 notice to start the lease extension process and assign the benefit of the notice to the purchaser. The benefit of this is that the buyer need not have to sit tight for 2 years to extend their lease. Both sets of lawyers will agree to form of assignment. The assignment has to be done before, or at the same time as completion of the disposal of the property.
An alternative approach is to extend the lease informally by agreement with the landlord either before or after the sale. If you are informally negotiating there are no rules and so you cannot insist on the landlord agreeing to grant an extension or transferring the benefit of an agreement to the buyer.
I have tried to negotiate informally with with my landlord to extend my lease without getting anywhere. Can a leaseholder apply to the Leasehold Valuation Tribunal? Can you recommend a Nunhead conveyancing firm to act on my behalf?
Where there is a missing freeholder or where there is dispute about what the lease extension should cost, under the relevant legislation you can apply to the LVT to calculate the premium.
An example of a Freehold Enfranchisement decision for a Nunhead residence is 41 Endwell Road in March 2013. this matter relateed to the acquisition of the freehold of a mid- terraced Victorian house converted into three separate self-contained dwellings. By an order dated 28/11/2012, Deputy District Judge Cole in the Bromley County Court held that the leaseholders were entitled to acquire the freehold and directed that the premium payable be determined by this Tribunal. The Tribunal assessed the premium to be £14,753 This case was in relation to 3 flats. The unexpired residue of the current lease was 80.01 years.