Will lawyers request an advanced payment for my conveyancing in Fortis Green?

Where you are retaining lawyers for conveyancing in Fortis Green your lawyer will ask you to provide them with monies to cover the the cost of the conveyancing searches. Ordinarily this is requested to cover the fees of the Local Authority Search. When the deposit is payable against the total price then this should be required immediately in advance of exchange of contracts. The final balance that is due should be transferred shortly before completion.

I used Arc property Solicitors a few years past for my conveyancing in Fortis Green. I now require my papers but the law firm has closed. What do I do?

You should contact the Solicitors Regulatory Authority (SRA) to help locate your conveyancing files. They can be contacted on please contact on 0870 606 2555. Alternatively, you should use their online form to make an enquiry. You will need to provide the SRA with as much information as possible to assist their search, including the name and address in Fortis Green of the conveyancing firm of solicitors you previously retained, the name of conveyancing solicitor with whom you had dealings, and the date on which you last had dealings with the firm.

How easy is it to use your search app to find a conveyancing practitioner in Fortis Green on the approved list for my bank?

1st pick a mortgage company such as Barclays , The Mortgage Works or Alliance & Leicester then choose your preferred area for instance Fortis Green. Conveyancing firms in Fortis Green and beyond will then be listed.

My husband and I are FTB’s - had an offer accepted, but the selling agent has warned us that the owners will only issue a contract if we instruct their recommended lawyers as they want an ‘expedited deal’. Our preferred option is to instruct a local solicitor used to conveyancing in Fortis Green

We suspect that the owner is not behind this ultimatum. If they want ‘a quick sale', turning down a serious purchaser is counter productive. Try to communicate with the owners directly and make sure they comprehend that (a)you are motivated purchasers (b)you are excited to move forward, with mortgage lined up © you are unencumbered (d) you wish to move quickly (e)however you intend to use your preferred Fortis Green conveyancing lawyers - as opposed tothe ones that will give the estate agent a commission or meet his conveyancing targets demanded by corporate headquarters.

To what extent are Fortis Green conveyancing solicitors under an obligation to the Law Society to publish clear conveyancing costs?

Contained within the Solicitors Code of Conduct are prescriptive rules and regulations as to how the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) allow solicitors to publicise their fees to clients.The Law Society have a practice note giving advice on how to publicise transparent charges to avoid breaching any such rule. Practice notes are not legal advice issued by the Law Society and is not intended as the only standard of good practice a conveyancing solicitor should adhere to. The Practice Note does, however, constitute the Law Society’s perspective of acceptable practice for publicising conveyancing charges, and accordingly it’s a recommended read for any solicitor or conveyancer in Fortis Green or further afield.