The lawyer who dealt with my last purchase has sent a quote for £1700 for leasehold conveyancing in Par. I am selling a newly refurbished detached home for £200,000. Is this over the top? Is it in excess of the average fee for conveyancing in Par?

The costs illustration is fractionally on the high side. Where you are content to invest time scrutinising charges you may be able to decrease the fees marginally by say a hundred pounds. On the other hand, you couldcome to rue choosing an an unknown conveyancer. Remember to enquire that the firm can also act for your lender. You can employ our search tool to choose a Par conveyancing practice on the lender’s conveyancing panel which can often include conveyancing solicitors in Par.

Can your site be used to locate a Conveyancing solicitor in Par even where I’m not buying or selling a house, for example if I wish to buy a shop in Par with a loan from Halifax?

Our search tool is mainly utilised to get a quote from residential conveyancing solicitors in Par but we have set out towards the end of this page a selection of Par commercial conveyancing firms. You should speak with the solicitors directly to check if they are also authorised to represent Halifax

We're in Par, FTBs purchasing with a mortgage (lender is UBS , and our solicitor is on the UBS conveyancing panel). How long should the conveyancing process take?

The fact that your lawyer is on the UBS conveyancing panel is a help. It would almost certainly delay matters if they were not. However, no solicitor should guarantee a timeframe for your conveyancing, due to third parties outside of your control such as delays caused by lenders,conveyancing search providers or by the other side’s solicitors. The time taken is often determined by the number of parties in a chain.

I used Arc property Solicitors a few years past for my conveyancing in Par. I now require my file however the law firm has closed. What do I do?

Do contact the Solicitors Regulatory Authority (SRA) to help locate your conveyancing files. They can be contacted on please contact on 0870 606 2555. Alternatively, you should use their online form to make an enquiry. You will need to provide the SRA with as much information as possible to assist their search, including the name and address in Par of the conveyancing firm of solicitors you previously hired, the name of conveyancing solicitor with whom you had dealings, and the date on which you last had dealings with the firm.

The solicitors undertaking our conveyancing in Par has forwarded documents to review that state the property is unregistered with epitome documents. How can it be that the property not registred at HMLR?

Although the vast majorities of properties in Par are now registered with HMLR there are still a few that remain unregistered. Any property in Par that has been remortgaged since the late 1980’s will have been registered at the Land Registry under the compulsory ‘first registration’ scheme. However, if a Par property has not changed hands in that time then it’s likely the old fashioned title deeds will be the only evidence of ownership.Many Par conveyancing solicitors should be capable of dealing with such matters but in the event that uncertainty exists the prevailing advice nowadays appears to be for the vendor’s solicitor to undertake the registration formalities first and then deal with the sale conveyance - this undoubtedly result in a protracted transaction.