I am helping my mother sell her flat in Cotswolds. Will the conveyancer commission an EPC or should I organise this?
After the demise of Home Information Packs, EPC’s was left as a required element of selling a property. An EPC must be commissioned in advance of the property being advertised. It is not a task that conveyancers normally arrange. If you are using a Cotswolds conveyancing lawyer they might help arrange EPC’s given their relationships with long established Cotswolds accredited person
My partner and I have organised the release of further funds on our home loan from RBS as we intend to conduct renovations to our property in Cotswolds. Do we need to appoint a bricks and mortar Cotswolds solicitor on the RBS conveyancing panel to handle the legals?
RBS would not normally appoint firms on their approved list of lawyers to deal with such a matter. If they do require any legal work then you would need to ensure that such a lawyer was on the RBS list.
After weeks of negotiation I have agreed a price on an apartment in Cotswolds. My financial adviser pressured me to appoint their property lawyer. I paid an upfront payment of £175. A couple of days later, the conveyancing practitioner called me to say that they were not on the Leeds Building Society 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 Leeds Building Society 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.
A colleague suggested that if I am purchasing in Cotswolds I should carry out a Neighbourhood, Planning and Local Amenity Search. What does it cover?
A search of this type is usually quoted for as part of the standard Cotswolds conveyancing searches. It is not a small report of more than thirty pages, listing and setting out important information about Cotswolds around the property and the people living there. It includes an Aerial Photograph, Planning Applications, Land Use, Mobile Phone Masts, Rights of Way, the Cotswolds Housing Market, Council Tax Banding, the type of People living in the area, the dominant type of Housing, the Average House Prices, Crime details, Cotswolds Education with maps and statistics, Local Amenities and other useful information regarding Cotswolds.
4 months have gone by since my purchase conveyancing in Cotswolds concluded. I have checked the Land Registry website which shows that I paid £175,000 when infact I paid £160,000. Why the discrepancy?
The price paid figure is taken from the application to register the purchase. It is the figure included in the Transfer (the legal deed which transfers the residence from one person to the other) and referred to as the 'consideration' or purchase price. You can report an error in the price paid figure using the LR online form. In most cases errors result from typos so at first glance the figure. Do report it so they can double check and advise.
In my capacity as executor for the will of my grandfather I am disposing of a residence in Monmouth but live in Cotswolds. My solicitor (based 260 miles from meneeds me to execute a stat dec prior to completion. Could you suggest a conveyancing lawyer in Cotswolds to attest and place their company stamp on the document?
strictly speaking you are unlikely to need to have the documents attested by a conveyancing solicitor. Ordinarily or notary public or solicitor will be fine regardless of whether they are Cotswolds based
Why can't I complete our conveyancing in Cotswolds on a public holiday?
This is due to the fact that on completion the money will be transferred electronically between the banks of the buyer and owner’s conveyancer and at present this can only happen on a business day. It is not possible to complete on a saturday or sunday either.