What does my ID and proof of funds have anything to do with my conveyancing in Watton? What am I being asked for?

Anti-terror and anti-money-laundering regulations require solicitors and licensed conveyancers to check the ID of the potential client they are dealing with prior to agreeing to accepting their conveyancing retainer. The Terms and Conditions that you need to sign will no doubt stipulate this. Your lender will also require certain documents to be viewed. Should you refuse to hand over identification documents, your lawyer can not take you on as a client.

How do I check that the solicitor handling my conveyancing in Watton is on the mortgage lender’sapproved panel? I am looking to avoid the situation of having one lawyer for me and one for Platform Home Loans Ltd thus spending £175.00 in further conveyancing invoice.

You should make use of the find a conveyancing panel solicitor tool on this web page. Pick the lender and type ‘Watton’ or your preferred area and you will discover numerous conveyancers located in Watton or by proximity to you.

I am helping my sister sell her flat in Watton. Does the solicitor commission an energy assessment or do I organise this?

Following the abolition of HIPs, energy assessments remained a mandatory element of selling a property. An energy assessment needs to be to hand prior to the property being advertised. This is not something that law firms normally arrange. Where you are instructing a Watton conveyancing solicitor they might help arrange EPC’s due to their relationships with long established Watton assessors

When it comes to mortgage companies such as UBS, do Watton conveyancers have to pay a fee to be on the conveyancing panel?

We are unaware of any lender fees to be on their list of approved firms, although some do charge an administration fee to deal with the processing of the conveyancing panel submission.

I have paid off my mortgage with TSB. I assume I don't need a Watton conveyancing practitioner on the TSB panel to discharge the mortgage at the Land Registry. Please confirm.

If you have finished paying off your TSB mortgage, they may send you evidence showing that you have paid it off. Alternatively they may notify the Land Registry directly. The Land Registry need to see this evidence before they will remove the TSB mortgage from the register. TSB, and any evidence they send you, will determine the action you need to take. In cases where no conveyancer is acting for you and you have paid off your mortgage:

1. but are not moving to another property
2. where TSB has sent the Land Registry the discharge electronically, and
3. TSB has instructed the Land Registry to do so

I am looking into buying my first house which is in Watton and I am already nervous. I couldn't find anything specific about Watton. Conveyancing will be needed in due course but do you know about the Watton area? or perhaps some other tips you can share?

Rather than looking online forget looking online you should go and have a look at Watton. In the meantime here are some basic statistics that we found

We are 14 days into a freehold purchase having been directed to conveyancers by the estate agent to handle our conveyancing in Watton. I am am starting to be dissatisfied with the level of service. Could you you assist me in finding new conveyancers?

A solicitor would need to be really bad in order to consider diss instructing them. Has the loan offer been sent? In the event that it has you will need to inform them of the new solicitor and ensure the mortgage documents are issued to the new lawyers. Your new conveyancer needs to be on the lenders panel to avoid added costs and complications. That should be your starting point. Our find a solicitor tool should help you find a lender approved solicitor for your conveyancing in Watton