We are purchasing our first home. Our conveyancing practitioner has e-mailedto ask if we would like to order supplemental conveyancing searches. Frankly we are clueless as to what's recommended for conveyancing in Chorlton cum Hardy

The range of Chorlton cum Hardy conveyancing searches depends entirely on the property, the location, the likelihood of any of these risks, your knowledge of the area and risks, your overall appetite to risk. What matters is that you adequately appreciate what information each search could give you. Then you can decide if you personally think you need that search. Where you are unclear, ask the lawyer to explain.

I am looking for a flat up to £245,000 and found one near me in Chorlton cum Hardy I like with amenity areas and station nearby, however it only has 52 remaining years left on the lease. I can't really find anything else in Chorlton cum Hardy 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 the remaining unexpired lease term may be problematic. Discount the price by the anticipated lease extension will cost if it has not already been discounted. If the existing owner has owned the property for at least twenty four months you may request that they commence the lease extension formalities and pass it to you. An additional ninety years can be extended on to the existing lease term with a zero ground rent applied. You should speak to your conveyancing lawyer regarding this.

Is it possible to change solicitor as I need to instruct one who is on the Nottingham Building Society conveyancing panel. I had appointed a local conveyancing solicitor in Chorlton cum Hardy five minutes from me but the firm is not accepted by Nottingham Building Society

We will our best to assist in finding you a conveyancing solicitor in Chorlton cum Hardy on the Nottingham Building Society panel. Please note that the law firms that we on the directory do not pay us fee if you instruct them and are regulated by the SRA who oversee all conveyancing solicitors in Chorlton cum Hardy. In utilising search facility on this website, you can compare costs for conveyancing solicitors in Chorlton cum Hardy and throughout England and Wales.

We're novice buyers - agreed a price, but the property agent told us that the seller will only issue a contract if we appoint the agent's recommended conveyancers as they need an ‘expedited deal’. My instinct tells me that we should use a family solicitor with experience of conveyancing in Chorlton cum Hardy

We suspect that the owner is unaware of this request. Should the seller desire ‘a quick sale', taking such a hostile approach to a motivated buyer is likely to cause more damage than good. Speak to the owners direct and explain that (a)you are keen to buy (b)you are excited to move forward, with mortgage lined up © you are chain free (d) you intend to proceed fast (e)however you intend to instruct your preferred Chorlton cum Hardy conveyancing solicitors - not the ones that will provide their negotiator at the agency a introducer fee or achieve conveyancing targets demanded by head office.

Do online conveyancing companies do everything a high street Chorlton cum Hardy solicitor does or do I still need to employ a solicitor for the final stages for my conveyancing in Chorlton cum Hardy?

If you choose an online conveyancer they will undertake all the things your Chorlton cum Hardy solicitor would cover.