I am buying a property for cash in Belper. I have resided for the previous twelve years in Belper. Conveyancing searches are expensive. Given that I have knowledge of the area and road intimately must I have all the conveyancing searches?

If you not getting a mortgage, then almost all of the Belper conveyancing searches are optional. Your conveyancer will 'advise', perhaps strongly, that you should have searches done, but he has a professional duty to do this. Do take into account; if you are intend to dispose of the house in the future, it will likely be be of importance to your prospective purchaser what the searches reveal. On occasion properties with day to day issues can still reveal detrimental search results. A good conveyancing solicitor in Belper should provide you some practical guidance here.

Completed the sale of my flat in Belper last November yet the purchaser is telephoning me to say their lawyer is waiting to hear from mine. What are the post completion sale formalities following completion?

Following your sale your lawyer should send the transfer deeds and all additional paperwork to the purchaser's lawyers. Depending on the transaction, your conveyancer should also confirm that the mortgage has been repaid to the purchasers conveyancers. There is unlikely to be post completion formalities just for conveyancing in Belper.

We're in Belper, FTBs buying with a mortgage (lender is Coventry BS , and our lawyer is on the Coventry BS conveyancing panel). How long should the conveyancing process take?

The fact that your lawyer is on the Coventry BS conveyancing panel is a help. It would almost certainly delay matters if they were not. However, no lawyer should guarantee a timeframe for your conveyancing, due to third parties outside of your control such as delays caused by lenders,conveyancing search providers or by the other side’s solicitors. The time taken is often determined by the number of parties in a chain.

Are there restrictive covenants that are commonly identified as part of conveyancing in Belper?

Restrictive covenants can be picked up when reviewing land registry title as part of the legal transfer of property in Belper. An 1874 stipulation that was seen was ‘The houses to be erected on the estate are each to be of a uniform elevation in accordance with the drawings to be prepared or approved by the vendor’s surveyor…’

I have been Googling for Belper online conveyancing estimates. Can I be assured that all the Belper firms that are identified on your site are on the bank conveyancing panel?

The solicitor and licensed conveyancing practices listed on our site have assured us via an online form that they are on the mortgage company panel and agreed to advise us to take down their listing in the event of removal off of the mortgage company panel. To date we have not been informed by either a bank or a member of the public that the data about a specific Belper conveyancing solicitor being on the mortgage company conveyancing panel is incorrect.