My family lawyer has quoted £1700 for no completion no fee conveyancing in St Paul's Cray. I’m selling a Victorian property for £225,000. Is this expensive? Is it in excess of the average fee for conveyancing in St Paul's Cray?
The costs illustration is fractionally on the expensive side. Where you are prepared to expend time scrutinising quotes you could reduce the fees slightly by say a hundred pounds. On the other hand, you mightcome to rue opting for an a cheaper solicitor. If is important to check the solicitor can represent your mortgage company. You can employ our comparison tool to choose a St Paul's Cray conveyancing company on the lender’s approved list of lawyers which can often include conveyancing solicitors in St Paul's Cray.
A colleague suggested that where I am purchasing in St Paul's Cray I should ask my conveyancer to perform a Neighbourhood, Planning and Local Amenity Search. What does it cover?
A search of this type is sometimes quoted for as part of the standard St Paul's Cray conveyancing searches. It is not a small document of about 40 pages, listing and setting out important information about St Paul's Cray around the property and the people living there. It incorporates an Aerial Photograph, Planning Applications, Land Use, Mobile Phone Masts, Rights of Way, the local Housing Market, Council Tax Banding, the type of People living in the area, the dominant type of Housing, the Average House Prices, Crime details, St Paul's Cray Education with plans and statistics, Local Amenities and other useful information about St Paul's Cray.
In what way can the Landlord & Tenant Act 1954 affect my business property in St Paul's Cray and how can your lawyers assist?
The particular law that you refer to affords security of tenure to business lessees, granting the legal entitlement to make a request to court for a renewal lease and remain in occupation at the end of an expired lease. There are certain specified grounds that a landlord can refrain from granting a lease renewal and the rules are complex. Fees are different for commercial conveyancing. St Paul's Cray is one of our many locations in which our lawyers are located
In my capacity as executor for the estate of my uncle I am disposing of a property in Neath but I am based in St Paul's Cray. My solicitor (based 300 miles awayneeds me to execute a stat dec before completion. Could you suggest a conveyancing solicitor in St Paul's Cray who can attest and place their company stamp on the document?
strictly speaking you are unlikely to be required to have the documents witnessed by a conveyancing solicitor. Ordinarily any notary public or solicitor will be fine regardless of whether they are St Paul's Cray based
My son is about to join the property ladder, he had his mortgage in principle. One the seller agreed the offer on the flat we telephoned the building society to issue the formal offer. We were disappointed to learn that banks do not accept all , they need to be on their approved list, is this right?
Mortgage Companies ordinarily imposes restrictions either the type or the number of conveyancing solicitors on their approved list of lawyers. A common example of such restriction(s) being that a firm must have two or more partners. In addition to restricting the type of firm, some have decided to limit the number of firms they use to represent them. You should note that lenders have no responsibility for the quality of advice provided by any St Paul's Cray on their panel. Mortgage fraud was a key driver in the rationalisation of conveyancing panels a few years ago and whilst there are differing views about the extent of solicitor involvement in some of that fraud. Statistics from the Land Registry reveal that thousands of law firms only carry out one or two conveyances a year. Those supporting conveyancing panel cuts ask why law firms should have the right to be on a Lender panel when clearly, conveyancing is not their speciality. To put it another way; would you want a conveyancing solicitor to represent you if you were charged with a crime? Presumably not.