Having sold my house in Stamford Hill last June yet the purchaser is e-mailing me complaining that his lawyer is waiting to hear from mine. What should have happened now that I have sold?
Post completion of your house sale your solicitor should send the transfer documentation and all of the paperwork to the buyer’s lawyers. Depending on the transaction, your conveyancer should also send confirmation that the home loan has been repaid to the purchasers solicitors. There is unlikely to be post completion procedures peculiar conveyancing in Stamford Hill.
Despite weeks of looking the Title Certificate and documents to our home can not be found. The lawyers who dealt with the conveyancing in Stamford Hill 5 years ago no longer exist. What do I do?
Gone are the days when you need to hold title official documentation to prove you are the registered proprietor of land or premises, as the Land Registry have everything they need in a digital format.
I have been advised by numerous property agents in Stamford Hill to select a solicitor on your site. What’s the financial inducement for Estate Agents to offer your lawyers over a competitor’s?
We refuse to give any financial incentive for directing people our way. We thought it would be too underhand a fee because members of the public would think, ‘Why is the agent getting a kickback? Why aren’t I getting any benefit too?’ So we decided to step away from that.
I only have Seventy years left on my flat in Stamford Hill. I am keen to extend my lease but my landlord is missing. What options are available to me?
If you meet the appropriate requirements, under the Leasehold Reform, Housing and Urban Development Act 1993 you can submit an application to the County Court for for permission to dispense with the service of the initial notice. This will mean that your lease can be extended by the magistrate. However, you will be required to demonstrate that you have used your best endeavours to find the freeholder. For most situations an enquiry agent should be useful to carry out a search and prepare an expert document which can be accepted by the court as proof that the freeholder can not be located. It is advisable to get professional help from a conveyancer in relation to investigating the landlord’s absence and the application to the County Court overseeing Stamford Hill.
I own a garden flat in Stamford Hill. In the absence of agreement between myself and the freeholder, can the Leasehold valuation Tribunal determine the sum payable for the purchase of the freehold?
Where there is a missing landlord or where there is dispute about what the lease extension should cost, under the relevant statutes you can apply to the Leasehold Valuation Tribunal to determine the price payable.
An example of a Lease Extension matter before the tribunal for a Stamford Hill residence is Flat 25, Stamford Hill Mansions Stamford Hill in April 2010. The Tribunal therefore determined that the premium to be paid by the lessee to the freeholder for the extension of the lease should be £28,984.00 This case was in relation to 1 flat. The number of years remaining on the existing lease(s) was 59 years.
My conveyancers in Stamford Hill have advised me that no longer have my conveyancing file. To assist with my purchase I took out a mortgage with the mortgage company. Is it case that being on the bank conveyancing panel they need to have retained the file for a prescribed period?
Different lenders have different requirements but many of the Terms and Conditions of Conveyancing Panel Appointment require the file to be held for a period of 6 years. That being said we have not seen a copy of the mortgage company Conveyancing Panel Terms. It might be worth you contacting the bank directly.