Me and my fiance are purchasing a flat in St Leonard Shoreditch. My lawyer has never been on on the bank conveyancing list. Am I still permitted to use my St Leonard Shoreditch conveyancing solicitor even though they are excluded from the bank approved list?

You have numerous choices open to you here

• Carry on with your existing St Leonard Shoreditch lawyer but your mortgage company will need to appoint a conveyancer from their approved list. This will result in additional cost and potential interruption.
• Appoint a fresh conveyancer to act in the purchase, obviously checking they are on the lender conveyancing panel.
• Convince your conveyancing practitioner to do everything possible to get listed on the lender’s panel of solicitors

I am acquiring a newly constructed flat in St Leonard Shoreditch and my lawyer is informing me that she is duty bound to the mortgage company to reveal incentives from the seller. The Estate Agents are hassling me to sign contracts and my preference is not to delay the conveyancing. is my lawyer playing by the book?

You should not exchange unless you have been advised to do so by your property lawyer. A precondition to being on a lender panel is to comply with the UK Finance Lenders’ Handbook requirements. The CML Conveyancing Handbook requires that your lawyer have the appropriate Disclosure of Incentive form completed by the developer and accepted by your lender.

Over the last few months I have been searching for a ground for flat up to £305k and identified one round the corner in St Leonard Shoreditch I like with a park and railway links nearby, however it only has 61 remaining years left on the lease. I can't really find anything else in St Leonard Shoreditch suitable, so just wondered if I would be making a grave error acquiring a lease with such few years left?

Should you need a home loan the remaining unexpired lease term may be a potential deal breaker. Discount the price by the anticipated lease extension will cost if not already taken into account. If the current owner has owned the property for a minimum of twenty four months you may request that they start the process of the extension and then assign it to you. You can add 90 years to the current lease term with a zero ground rent applied. You should consult your conveyancing solicitor about this.

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We expect to complete our sale of a £350,000 maisonette in St Leonard Shoreditch in just under a week. The managing agents has quoted £336 for Landlord’s certificate, building insurance schedule and previous years service charge statements. Is it legal for a freeholder to charge an administration fee for a leasehold conveyance in St Leonard Shoreditch?

For most leasehold sales in St Leonard Shoreditch conveyancing will involve, queries regarding the management of a building inevitably needing to be answered directly by the freeholder or its agent, this includes :

Completing conveyancing due diligence enquiries Where consent is required before sale in St Leonard Shoreditch Supplying insurance information Deeds of covenant upon sale Registering of the assignment of the change of lessee after a sale

Your conveyancer will have no control over the level of the charges for this information but the average costs for the information for St Leonard Shoreditch leasehold property is £350. For St Leonard Shoreditch conveyancing transactions it is customary for the seller to pay for these costs. The landlord or their agents are under no legal obligation to answer such questions most will be willing to do so - albeit often at exorbitant prices where the fees bear little relation to the work involved. Unfortunately there is no law that requires fixed charges for administrative tasks. Neither is there any legal time frame by which they are obliged to supply the information.

I am the registered owner of a ground floor flat in St Leonard Shoreditch. Given that I can not reach agreement with the freeholder, can the Leasehold valuation Tribunal make a decision on the premium due for the purchase of the freehold?

Most definitely. We can put you in touch with a St Leonard Shoreditch conveyancing firm who can help.

An example of a Lease Extension case for a St Leonard Shoreditch residence is 137 & 139 Haberdasher Street in December 2013. The Tribunal determines in accordance with section 48 and Schedule 13 of the Leasehold Reform, Housing and Urban Development Act 1993 that the premium for the extended lease for each Property should be £12,350.00. This case was in relation to 2 flats. The unexpired residue of the current lease was 72.39 years.