We see that you have a post code search directory identifying solicitors on the conveyancing panel. Do firms pay you a referral fee if I appoint them for our own conveyancing in Wide Open?
We are a listing service only for law firms wishing to communicate if they are on the conveyancing panel or other lender panels. We do not charge referral fees to any conveyancer that you subsequently appoint for your conveyancing in Wide Open.
My Conveyancer in Wide Open is not listed on the Conveyancing Panel. Can I still retain my prefered solicitor even though they are excluded from the panel?
Your options are as follows:
- Complete the purchase with your preferred Wide Open solicitors but will need to use a conveyancer on their panel. This will result in additional total legal fees and result in delays.
- Choose an alternative solicitor to act in the conveyancing, remembering to check they are Persuade your conveyancer to use their best endeavours to join the conveyancing panel
My wife and I have organised a further advance on our mortgage from as we want to carry out alterations to our house in Wide Open. Are we obliged to appoint a nearby Wide Open solicitor on the conveyancing panel to deal with the paperwork?
would not normally require firms on their approved list of lawyers to handle such a matter. If they do require any legal work then you would need to ensure that such a lawyer was on the conveyancing panel.
I have a mortgage with for my property in Wide Open. Conveyancing was finalised a year ago. In the event that I decide to rent out my property and do not currently have a buy-to-let mortgage do I need to remortgage to a buy-to-let mortgage or inform ?
You must advise in advance of renting your property as this is likely to be a breach of ’s mortgage conditions. It may be that will permit you to let out your former home without needing to switch to a buy-to-let mortgage but some lenders will add a surcharge to your mortgage rate to reflect the higher risk. You should contact directly. It should not be necessary to do this via a conveyancing panel firm.
After months of negotiation I have agreed a price on a house in Wide Open. My mortgage broker recommended their conveyancers. I paid an upfront payment of £225. A couple of days later, the called me sheepishly admitting that they were not on the 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 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.
I used Wolstenholmes several years past for my conveyancing in Wide Open. I now require my papers but the law firm has closed. What do I do?
You should call the Solicitors Regulatory Authority (SRA) to assist in tracing your conveyancing files. They can be contacted on please contact on 0870 606 2555. Alternatively, you should use their online form to make an enquiry. You will need to provide the SRA with as much information as possible to assist their search, including the name and address in Wide Open of the conveyancing firm of solicitors you previously retained, the name of conveyancing solicitor with whom you had dealings, and the date on which you last had dealings with the firm.
Am I best advised to instruct a Wide Open conveyancing lawyer in close proximity to the house I am purchasing? I have an old university friend who can handle the conveyancing but her office is 400kilometers away.
The primary upside of using a high street Wide Open conveyancing firm is that you can attend the office to sign paperwork, present your identification documents and pester them if necessary. They will also have local insight which is a plus. However it's more important to get someone that will pull out all the stops for you. If if people you trust used your friend and the majority were impressed that must trump using an unknown Wide Open conveyancing solicitor solely due to them being Wide Open based.