How do I check that the solicitor conducting my conveyancing in Bamburgh is on the mortgage lender’sapproved panel? I am looking to avoid the situation of having one lawyer for me and one for Nationwide Building Society thus paying £175.00 in another set of conveyancing charges.

Feel free to take advantage of the search tool on this page. Pick the lender and type ‘Bamburgh’ or your location and you will be presented with numerous conveyancers offices in Bamburgh or nearest you.

Should our conveyancer be making enquiries about flooding during the conveyancing in Bamburgh.

The risk of flooding is if increasing concern for conveyancers dealing with homes in Bamburgh. Plenty of people will acquire a house in Bamburgh, fully aware that at some time, it may suffer from flooding. However, leaving to one side the physical destruction, where a property is at risk of flooding, it may be difficult to get a mortgage, suitable building insurance, or sell the premises. There are steps that can be taken during the course of a property purchase to forewarn the buyer.

Lawyers are not qualified to impart advice on flood risk, but there are a number of searches that may be undertaken by the buyer or by their lawyers which will figure out the risks in Bamburgh. The conventional set of information given to a purchaser’s conveyancer (where the Conveyancing Protocol is adopted) includes a standard question of the vendor to discover if the premises has suffered from flooding. If flooding has previously occurred which is not revealed by the owner, then a purchaser may issue a legal claim for losses as a result of such an misleading answer. The buyer’s solicitors may also carry out an enviro search. This will disclose whether there is a recorded flood risk. If so, further investigations will need to be carried out.

I have been on the look out for a ground for flat up to £305k and found one round the corner in Bamburgh I like with open areas and transport links in the vicinity, however it only has 51 remaining years left on the lease. I can't really find anything else in Bamburgh in this price bracket, so just wondered if I would be making a grave error acquiring a lease with such few years left?

Should you need a home loan that many years will be problematic. Discount the offer by the expected lease extension will cost if not already taken into account. If the existing proprietor has owned the premises for a minimum of twenty four months you may request that they start the process of the extension and pass it to you. An additional ninety years can be extended on to the current lease with a zero ground rent applied. You should speak to your conveyancing solicitor regarding this matter.

Hoping to buy a property located in Bamburgh and I am already nervous. I couldn't find anything specific about Bamburgh. Conveyancing will be needed in due course but do you know about the Bamburgh area? or perhaps some other tips you can share?

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

I happen to be an executor of my recently deceased parent's Will, with a house in Bamburgh which is to be marketed. The property has never been registered at the Land Registry and I'm told that many buyers solicitors will insist that it is completed before they'll proceed. What's the procedure for this?

In the circumstances you refer to it seems prudent to apply to register in the names of the personal representative(s) as named in the probate and in their capacity as PRs. HMLR’s online guidance explains how to register for the first time and what is required re the deeds and forms. You would need to include and certified copy of the probate as well and complete the form FR1 to refer to the PRs as the applicant.