I have 70 years unexpired on my lease and require a lease extension for my apartment in Earlestown. Conveyancing solicitors on the Platform panel can deal with such extensions correct?

Most leasehold conveyancing experts should be able to deal with a lease extension. if you are getting a mortgage then your lender may insist that the lease be extended before competition. Platform have specific requirements as set out in the UK Finance Lenders’ Handbook in relation to minimum unexpired lease terms. As of 31/1/2025 the requirements read as follows :

I am helping my sister sell her flat in Earlestown. Will the solicitor order the EPC or it is for the seller to coordinate?

After the abolition of Home Information Packs, energy performance certificates was left as a mandatory component of moving property. An energy assessment should be commissioned before the property is advertised. It is not as aspect of the sale process that conveyancers ordinarily arrange. Where you are instructing a Earlestown conveyancing practitioner they may help arrange EPC’s given their contacts with long established local assessors

I have paid off my mortgage with TSB. I assume I don't need a Earlestown conveyancer on the TSB panel to discharge the mortgage at the Land Registry. Please confirm.

If you have finished paying off your TSB mortgage, they may send you evidence showing that you have paid it off. Alternatively they may notify the Land Registry directly. The Land Registry need to see this evidence before they will remove the TSB mortgage from the register. TSB, and any evidence they send you, will determine the action you need to take. In cases where no conveyancer is acting for you and you have paid off your mortgage:

1. but are not moving to another property
2. where TSB has sent the Land Registry the discharge electronically, and
3. TSB has instructed the Land Registry to do so

I am selling my apartment. I had a double glazing fitted in August 2007, but did not receive a FENSA certificate or Building Regulation Certificate. My purchaser’s lender, HSBC are being difficult. The Earlestown solicitor who is on the HSBC conveyancing panel is happy to accept ‘lack of building regulation’ insurance but HSBC are insisting on a building regulation certificate. Why do HSBC have a conveyancing panel if they don't accept advice from them?

It is probably the case that HSBC have referred the matter to their valuer. The reason why HSBC may not want to accept indemnity insurance is because it does not give them any reassurance that the double glazing was correctly and safely installed. The indemnity insurance merely protects against enforcement action which is very unlikely anyway.

Should commercial conveyancing searches disclose impending roadworks that may impact a commercial premises in Earlestown?

Its becoming the norm that commercial conveyancing solicitors in Earlestown will execute a SiteSolutions Highways report as it reduces the time that conveyancers invest in looking into accurate data on highways that impact buildings and development assets in Earlestown. The report provides definitive data on the adoption status of roads, footpaths and verges, as well as the implication of traffic schemes and the rights of way surrounding a commercial development sites in Earlestown.

For every commercial conveyancing transaction in Earlestown it is crucial to investigate the adoption status of roads surrounding a site. The absence of identifying developments where adoption procedures have not been addressed adequately can cause delays to Earlestown commercial conveyancing transactions as well as present a risk to future intentions for the site. These searches are not conducted for residential conveyancing in Earlestown.

I am looking into buying my first house which is in Earlestown and I am already nervous. I couldn't find anything specific about Earlestown. Conveyancing will be needed in due course but do you know about the Earlestown area? or perhaps some other tips you can share?

Rather than looking online forget looking online you should go and have a look at Earlestown. In the meantime here are some basic statistics that we found

We're new on the property ladder - had an offer accepted, yet the estate agent told us that the seller will only go ahead if we instruct the agent's preferred lawyers as they are insisting on an ‘expedited deal’. We would rather use a local solicitor accustomed to conveyancing in Earlestown

We suspect that the seller is unaware of this demand. Should the vendor want ‘a quick sale', turning down a genuine purchaser is not the way to achieve this. Speak to the owners direct and explain that (a)you are serious buyers (b)you are excited to move forward, with mortgage lined up © you have nothing to sell (d) you wish to move quickly (e)however you will continue to use your own,trusted Earlestown conveyancing solicitors - not the ones that will earn their negotiator at the agency a kickback or hit his conveyancing figures demanded by HQ.