Having been told to check out your company we were about to go ahead with a conveyancing solicitor in Coulsdon listed by you but stumbled across alternative costs illustrations on the internet seem less pricey – how come?

There are plenty of solicitors advertising alleged cheap conveyancing, yet more often than not extracosts end up with the final invoice mounting up beyond all recognition. According to the Legal Ombudsman fees outlined in terms of business should be fair and reasonable and be applied The conveyancers that we list for conveyancing in Coulsdon specify all charges for the property you intend topurchase.

How up to date is your database of Coulsdon solicitors on the Co-operative conveyancing panel? Do Co-operative send you an updated list?

Coulsdon conveyancing firms themselves provide us confirmation that they are on the Co-operative conveyancing panel as opposed to being supplied with a list from Co-operative directly.

I am buying a new build apartment in Coulsdon. Conveyancing is a frightening process at the best of times but I have never purchased a new build flat before. What sort of enquires would be asked in new build conveyancing.

Set out below are examples of a few leasehold new build questions that you may expect your new-build leasehold conveyancing in Coulsdon

Forfeiture - bankruptcy or liquidation must not apply under this provision. Please supply a car parking plan. Will control of the Management Company (if any) be handed over to purchasers on completion of the last sale or earlier? Please confirm the Lease plans are architect prepared. Where service of notices and proceedings can be at the property demised please confirm that this can be amended to include simultaneous services at the Lessees’ solicitors’ offices where the Lessee from time to time is not resident in the UK - such solicitors may be varied by notice in writing to the Landlord from time to time but otherwise will be as previously specified.

I was pointed in your direction by a number of property agents in Coulsdon to find a property lawyer on your site. What’s the financial upside for Estate Agents to promote your lawyers over a competitor’s?

We refuse to make any commission for sending work our way. We thought it would be too underhand to pay a commission because home movers will think, ‘Why is the agent getting a kickback? Why aren’t I receiving any benefit too?’ So we decided to step away from that.

Our conveyancer has advised that he intends to complete and exchange simultaneously on our sale of a £325,000 garden flat in Coulsdon on Tuesday in a week. The freeholder has quoted £312 for Landlord’s certificate, building insurance schedule and 3 years statements of service charge. Is the landlord entitled to charge such fees for a leasehold conveyance in Coulsdon?

Coulsdon conveyancing on leasehold maisonettes often involves the buyer’s lawyer submitting questions for the landlord to address. Although the landlord is under no legal obligation to address such questions most will be content to do so. They are at liberty to levy a reasonable administration fee for responding to questions or supplying documentation. There is no set fee. The average costs for the paperwork that you are referring to is £350, in some transactions it is above £800. The management information fee invoiced by the landlord must be accompanied by a summary of entitlements and obligations in respect of administration fees, without which the charge is not strictly payable. In reality one has little option but to pay whatever is requested of you if you want to complete the sale of your home.

I am the registered owner of a two-bedroom flat in Coulsdon. Given that I can not reach agreement with the freeholder, can the Leasehold valuation Tribunal determine the premium payable for a lease extension?

if there is a absentee freeholder or where there is dispute about what the lease extension should cost, under the relevant statutes you can apply to the First-tier Tribunal (Property Chamber) to assess the amount due.

An example of a Freehold Enfranchisement decision for a Coulsdon property is 223 Brighton Road in September 2013. The premium payable for the acquisition freehold of the properties should be £10,934 (Ten thousand,nine hundred and thirty four pounds) This case affected 3 flats. The remaining number of years on the lease was 75 years.