Why would one use a Croydon conveyancing solicitors firm given that national conveyancers are less expensive?
To take your time to find compare conveyancing costs in Croydon and you should seek a reasonable fee calculation but don’t be focused with scouring the internet for the lowest priced Croydon conveyancer. Locating the right conveyancer can mark the difference between a seamless and a distressing home move. It is important that you ensure that you have expert advice from a specialist solicitor. An e-mail can never take the place of a phone call and are no substitute for a face to face appointment. The firms that we work with will appoint you a qualified and experienced conveyancing solicitor who can deal with your conveyancing from beginning to end, giving the sort of continuity that you will never get with an online conveyancer. Our lawyers will inform you on any developments and keep you informed. Should you need to contact the firm you will be sure who to ask for and they will be sure you are in the know.
My house in Croydon is up for sale and I have a purchaser. Will the conveyancer have to be required to be on the Coventry BS conveyancing panel in order to deal with paying off my mortgage?
Ordinarily, even if your lawyer is not on the Coventry BS conveyancing panel they can still act for you on your sale. It might be that the lender will not release the original deeds (if applicable and increasingly irrelevant) until after the mortgage is paid off. You should speak to your lawyer directly before you start the process though to ensure that there is no problem as lenders are changing their specifications fairly frequently in recent years.
I have recentlydiscovered that Action Conveyancing have closed. They carried out my conveyancing in Croydon for a purchase of a freehold house 10 months ago. How can I establish that the property is in my name in the name of the former proprietor?
The easiest way to see if the premises is in your name, you can carry out a search of the land registry (£3.00). You can either do this yourself or ask a law firm to do this for you. If you are not registered you can seek help from one of a number of Croydon conveyancing specialists.
I have been on the look out for a flat up to £195,000 and identified one close by in Croydon I like with amenity areas and station nearby, the downside is that it only has 61 remaining years left on the lease. There is not much else in Croydon suitable, so just wondered if I would be making a grave error buying a lease with such few years left?
Should you need a mortgage the remaining unexpired lease term will be a potential deal breaker. Discount the price by the expected lease extension will cost if it has not already been discounted. If the current proprietor has owned the premises for a minimum of twenty four months you may request that they start the process of the extension and then assign 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 solicitor about this.
Midway through the sale of a leasehold flat in Croydon. Conveyancing lawyers are doing their job but we have been asked to pay an extortionate amount by the freeholder. So far we have issued a cheque for £295.50 for a leasehold management information and then another £117.20 for answers to questions raised by the buyers solicitor.
Neither you or your property lawyer will have any say over the extent of the charges for this information however the average fee for the information for Croydon leasehold premises is £395. When it comes to Croydon conveyancing sales it is customary for the vendor to pay for these charges. The freeholder or their agents are under no statutory obligation to answer such questions most will agree to do so - albeit often at high prices where the fees bear little relation to the work involved. Regretfully there is no legislation that mandates capped fees for administrative tasks. Nor is there any legal time frame by which they are duty bound to issue the information.