Are you able to vouch for a Leeds Building Society sanctioned Bounds Green conveyancing lawyer who can have us moved in within a short deadline? Would it be better to use a local Bounds Green solicitor or a web based comparison site?
We can recommend some very good Bounds Green conveyancing firms. You can also walk up the main road in Bounds Green. Approach some well established law practices and ask to see a conveyancing solicitor for a quote. Discuss your time frames together with your reasons and ask for a commitment on your deadline. Choose the one that genuine.
Having sold my house in Bounds Green last October but my buyer keeps Skype messaging daily to say his lawyer is waiting to hear from mylawyer. What are the post completion sale formalities now that I have sold?
Following your sale your lawyer is committed to forward the transfer deeds and all additional paperwork to the purchaser's solicitors. If applicable, your solicitor must also send confirmation that the mortgage has been paid off to the buyers conveyancers. There is unlikely to be post completion formalities peculiar conveyancing in Bounds Green.
About to place an offer on a leasehold apartment in Bounds Green. The estate agents assure me that it is usual for flats in Bounds Green to have less than 75 years unexpired on the lease. I am taking out a loan with Accord Mortgages. Is this going to be acceptable if the lease has 69 years unexpired.
Most leasehold conveyancing experts should be able to deal with a lease extension. if you are securing a mortgage then your lender may insist that the lease be extended before competition. Accord Mortgages have specific requirements as set out in the UK Finance Lenders’ Handbook in relation to minimum unexpired lease terms. As of 17/12/2024 the requirements read as follows :
I had a mortgage agreed in principle with Clydesdale. Bounds Green conveyancing solicitors were selected. What is the average time that one could expect to receive a mortgage offer from Clydesdale?
There is no definitive answer here. Have Clydesdale conducted the survey? Have you informed Clydesdale as to your lawyers' details and checked that your lawyers are on the Clydesdale conveyancing panel? It is not unusual for a mortgage offer to take a month to come through.
I recently had an offer accepted on a house in Bounds Green. My financial adviser suggested a property lawyer. I paid an advanced payment of £175. A few days later, the solicitor contacted me embarrassingly acknowledging that they were not on the Kent Reliance 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 Kent Reliance 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 was told four weeks ago that my mortgage has been agreed to by Yorkshire BS. Is it usual for Yorkshire BS to only issue the offer once my solicitor in Bounds Green is approved on their conveyancing panel? Yorkshire BS have asked my solicitor to see a copy of their Professional Indemnity Insurance Schedule.
Mortgage companies tend not to not issue an offer until they have details of a lawyer on their panel. It can take a few weeks for Yorkshire BS to deal with your lawyer's application to be on the Yorkshire BS conveyancing panel. There's no guarantee that your solicitor will be accepted.
Are there restrictive covenants that are commonly identified as part of conveyancing in Bounds Green?
Restrictive covenants can be picked up when reviewing land registry title as part of the legal transfer of property in Bounds Green. 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…’