Completed the sale of my flat in Osterley Park last October but our buyer keeps telephoning me to moan that their solicitor needs to hear from myconveyancer. What should my lawyer have done now that I have sold?
After completion of your house sale your lawyer is committed to deliver the transfer deeds and all additional paperwork to the purchaser's solicitors. If applicable, your solicitor must also evidence that the mortgage has been repaid to the purchasers lawyers. There are no post completion procedures unique to conveyancing in Osterley Park.
Do the Building Society Association intend to launch a searchable register to to identify solicitors on the Darlington Building Society conveyancing panel for instance in Osterley Park?
We have not been informed any plans on the part of the BSA to promote such a search facility.
A friend advised me that if I am buying in Osterley Park I should carry out a Neighbourhood, Planning and Local Amenity Search. What does it cover?
This is a search is occasionally quoted for as part of the standard Osterley Park conveyancing searches. It is a large report of about 40 pages, listing and setting out important information about Osterley Park around the property and the people living there. It includes an Aerial Photograph, Planning Applications, Land Use, Mobile Phone Masts, Rights of Way, the local Housing Market, Council Tax Banding, the demographics of People living in the area, the dominant type of Housing, the Average House Prices, Crime details, Osterley Park Education with maps and statistics, Local Amenities and other useful information regarding Osterley Park.
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At this site obtain a fixed fee costs illustration from a Solicitor or Licensed Conveyancer that understands the nuances of your conveyancing in Osterley Park. Unlike many estate agents and many comparison sites we do not operate kick-back arrangements with solicitors. A large number of agents and online brokers 'recommend' solicitors that pays the most per referral, not the best value conveyancing in Osterley Park
There are only 62 years left on my flat in Osterley Park. I need to get lease extension but my landlord is missing. What are my options?
If you qualify, under the Leasehold Reform, Housing and Urban Development Act 1993 you can apply to the County Court for for permission to dispense with the service of the initial notice. This will enable the lease to be extended by the magistrate. You will be obliged to prove that you have done all that could be expected to track down the landlord. In some cases an enquiry agent should be useful to carry out a search and prepare an expert document which can be used as proof that the freeholder is indeed missing. It is wise to seek advice from a conveyancer both on proving the landlord’s disappearance and the application to the County Court covering Osterley Park.
Having spent years of dialogue we simply can't agree with our landlord on how much the lease extension should cost for our flat in Osterley Park. Does the Leasehold Valuation Tribunal have jurisdiction to calculate the appropriate figures?
Where there is a missing freeholder or where there is dispute about what the lease extension should cost, under the Leasehold Reform, Housing and Urban Development Act 1993 you can apply to the LVT to judgment on the sum to be paid.
An example of a Freehold Enfranchisement case for a Osterley Park premises is 6 Jessamine Road in August 2013. The Tribunals valuation (as annexed to the decision) calculated the amount payable as £18,355 for the freehold reversion This case was in relation to 2 flats. The unexpired term was 72.39 years.