Our nephew is in the process of securing a house that has just been built in Abbey Wood with a home loan from UBS. His lawyer has advised him of a delay in completing the ‘Disclosure of Incentive Form’. This document is news to me - what is it and who needs sight of it?

The form is intended to provide information to the main parties involved in the transaction. Therefore, it will be provided to your son’s lawyer who should be on the UBS conveyancing panel as a standard part of the process, and to the surveyor when requested. The developer will be required to start the process by downloading the form and completing it. The form will therefore need to be available for the valuer at the time of his or her site visit. The form should be sent to the UBS conveyancing panel solicitor as early as possible, in order to avoid any last minute delays, and no later than at exchange of contracts.

What is the optimum way to check that the solicitor conducting my conveyancing in Abbey Wood is on the bank’sconveyancing panel? I am looking to avoid the situation of having one lawyer for me and one for Chelsea Building Society thus paying £192.00 in additional legal fees.

Please do take advantage of the search tool on this site. Please choose the lender and type ‘Abbey Wood’ or your location and you will be presented with numerous solicitors located in Abbey Wood or nearest you.

What tools are available to locate a Abbey Wood law firm on the Bank of Scotland conveyancing panel? I am a keen cyclist and am happy to travel upto 10kilometers to meet the conveyancer.

Feel free to make use of the tool on this page. Please choose the mortgage company and your location and you will see a number of Abbey Wood conveyancing lawyers locally. We have detailed some Abbey Wood conveyancing firms at the bottom of this page and you can ring them to see if they are on the Bank of Scotland approved list

My husband and I are 3 weeks into a residential purchase having been referred to a firm by the local agent to do our conveyancing in Abbey Wood. We are not happy. Could you help me find new conveyancers?

They would need to be really bad to suggest replacing them. Has your loan offer been generated? In the event that it has you must make them aware of the new contact details and have the mortgage documents are issued to the new lawyers. Your new solicitor ideally should be on the lenders approved list to avoid escalating costs and complications. That should be your starting point. The find a solicitor tool will help you find a lender approved conveyancer for your conveyancing in Abbey Wood

I own a leasehold flat in Abbey Wood. Conveyancing and Birmingham Midshires mortgage are in place. A letter has just been received from someone saying they have taken over the reversionary interest in the property. Attached was a demand for arrears of ground rent dating back to 1993. The conveyancing practitioner in Abbey Wood who previously acted has long since retired. Any advice?

First contact the Land Registry to make sure that the individual claiming to own the freehold is in fact the new freeholder. It is not necessary to instruct a Abbey Wood conveyancing practitioner to do this as it can be done on-line for a few pound. You should note that in any event, even if this is the legitimate freeholder, under the Limitation Act 1980 the limitation period for recovery of ground rent is six years.

I have tried to negotiate informally with with my landlord to extend my lease without success. Can the Leasehold Valuation Tribunal adjudicate on such issues? Can you recommend a Abbey Wood conveyancing firm to assist?

if there is a absentee landlord or if there is dispute about what the lease extension should cost, under the relevant statutes it is possible to make an application to the First-tier Tribunal (Property Chamber) to assess the premium.

An example of a Lease Extension matter before the tribunal for a Abbey Wood flat is Various @ Colombus Square in January 2012. the Tribunal calculated the premiums to be paid for new leases for each of the flats in Mariners Walk to be £3822 and the premium to be paid for the new lease of 2 Knights Court to be £4439. This case related to 13 flats. The unexpired term was 76 years.