The solicitor who assisted with my last purchase has sent a quote for £1200 for freehold conveyancing in St Leonard Shoreditch. I am looking to sell a Georgian detached home for £225,000. Are the quoted fees excessive? Is it above the average fee for conveyancing in St Leonard Shoreditch?

The costs illustration is fractionally on the steep side. If you shop around you may be able to get the conveyancing a bit cheaper by say £125. That being said, you mightlive to regret opting for an a cheaper lawyer. If is important to check that the firm can also act for your mortgage company. You can make use of our search tool to choose a St Leonard Shoreditch conveyancing practice on the lender’s member panel which can often include conveyancing solicitors in St Leonard Shoreditch.

At what point can the exchange of contracts occur in residential conveyancing in St Leonard Shoreditch and am I required to be at the lawyers branch?

Where you are round the corner to one of the conveyancing solicitors in St Leonard Shoreditch you are welcome to come in to sign documents. That being said, the law practices we work with supply countrywide coverage for conveyancing and provide as equally detailed and professional a job for you when communicating with you digitally. The executing of the contract is not when everything is set in stone. A signed contract is necessary for the conveyancer to officially exchange when the time is right, which is ordinarily shortly after signing. The procedure is is usually a five minute process, although where a lengthy "chain" is in play, since the process requires the relevant party's solicitor (not necessarily a conveyancing solicitor in St Leonard Shoreditch)to be in the office at the appropriate time.

I am purchasing a detached bungalow in St Leonard Shoreditch. The intention is to an extension at the rear at the house.Will legal work on the property involve checks to determine if these works are allowed?

Your property lawyer will check the deeds as conveyancing in St Leonard Shoreditch can on occasion reveal restrictions in the title documents which prohibit categories of works or require the permission of a 3rd party. Many additions require local authority planning consent and approval in accordance building regulations. Many areas are designated conservation areas and special planning restrictions apply which often prevent or affect extensions. You should check these things with a surveyor prior to committing yourself to a purchase.

I recently had an offer agreed on a house in St Leonard Shoreditch. My mortgage broker pressured me to appoint their conveyancer. I paid an advanced payment of £150. Soon after, the lawyer contacted me sheepishly admitting that they were not on the Skipton 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 Skipton 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.

HSBC have agreed my mortgage in principle, my bid on a property in St Leonard Shoreditch has been agreed to, now what?

The property agent will wish to know who your solicitors are (ensure that the conveyancers are on the bank’s panel). Contact HSBC or the financial adviser and finish off any outstanding documentation. HSBC will sellect a valuer who will get in touch with the estate agent or seller to schedule an appointment. Once conducted (assuming no problems) it takes on average ten days for the mortgage offer to be issued. HSBC will send the offer to you and your solicitors. The transaction will then take it’s course according the nature and complexity of the conveyancing in St Leonard Shoreditch.

Just had an offer accepted on a new build flat in St Leonard Shoreditch. Conveyancing is necessary evil at the best of times but I have never purchased a new build flat before. Can you give me some examples of some of the questions asked in new build conveyancing.

Here is a sample of a few leasehold new build enquiries that you should expect your new-build leasehold conveyancing in St Leonard Shoreditch

Where service of notices and proceedings can be at the property demised please confirm that this can be amended to include simultaneous services at the Lessees’ solicitors’ offices where the Lessee from time to time is not resident in the UK - such solicitors may be varied by notice in writing to the Landlord from time to time but otherwise will be as previously specified. The Vendor must covenant to keep unsold units in good repair until long leases are granted therefore. Please supply evidence that the form of Lease proposed has been approved by the Land Registry. Where there is an Undertaking being granted there is the risk of forfeiture of the Headlease subject to relief if one or more of the Underlessees are willing to accept the original Head Lessee’s obligations as otherwise relief will be denied to the Underlessees. The only alternatives are the Head Lessor agreeing not to forfeit the Headlease or the Head Lessee guaranteeing to the Underlessees that it will not be in breach of the Headlease. Investor purchasers must be able to freely grant unsecured tenancies at market rents without requiring any consents.

Myself and my wife have just had an offer agreed on a property and had an appointment on Tuesday with the Post Office for the mortgage. They have informed me that when it comes to selecting a conveyancer that if they are not on their approved panel of conveyancers then we will have to pay out a further fee of £250+. This is because they will then have to appoint a solicitor to act for them in addition to the one we appoint on our behalf and we are liable for their invoice. I have asked the Post Office to furnish me with a list so I can request quotes only from their approved lawyers but was told that I need to check with each individual solicitor to see if they are on the panel. Is there a simple way of finding out who is on a lender panel?

You can enquire of the Post Office what their panel criteria is for a conveyancer.Then ask the conveyancer of your choice whether they fit that criteria and have they acted on mortgages for the Post Office historically. Where the answer to those is yes, then just clarify this with the Post Office. Another option is to use our search tool and we should be able to find you a property lawyer in St Leonard Shoreditch on the panel for the Post Office.