We are a couple about to exchange contracts for a semi detached house in Frant. We encountered a snag. Our loan offer with Chelsea Building Society expires on 21/3/2025 but the owners are suggesting a completion date of 25/3/2025. Is it possible to extend the loan expiry date?

The person best placed to address this concern is your solicitors who should determine if he or she is better off negotiating with the mortgage broker, seller’s representatives, selling agents or indeed all three based on the history of your house move as of today.

Finally the sale completed on my house in Frant last March but our buyer keeps whats apping me to moan that his solicitor needs to hear from mine. What should my lawyer have done now that I have sold?

Following your house sale your lawyer should forward the transfer deeds and all additional paperwork to the purchaser's conveyancer. Depending on the transaction, your lawyer must also send confirmation that the mortgage has been paid off to the purchasers solicitors. There is unlikely to be post completion tasks peculiar conveyancing in Frant.

We're in Frant, First timers buying with a mortgage (lender is Santander , and our solicitor is on the Santander conveyancing panel). How long should the conveyancing process take?

The fact that your lawyer is on the Santander conveyancing panel is a help. It would almost certainly delay matters if they were not. However, no solicitor should guarantee a timeframe for your conveyancing, due to third parties outside of your control such as delays caused by lenders,conveyancing search providers or by the other side’s solicitors. The time taken is often determined by the number of parties in a chain.

Due to sign contracts shortly on a leasehold property in Frant. Conveyancing lawyers inform me that they will have a report out to me on Monday. Are there areas in the report that I should be focusing on?

The report on title for your leasehold conveyancing in Frant should include some of the following:

Specifying your legal entitlements in respect of common areas in the block.By way of example, does the lease provide for a right of way over an accessway or staircase? specifics of the parties to the lease, for example these could be the leaseholder, head lessor, freeholder Changes to the premises What options are open to you if an adjoining owner breaches a clause of their lease? Who has the liability for repairing the window frames

Frant Conveyancing for Leasehold Flats - Sample of Queries before Purchasing

This question is helpful as a) areas could result in problems for the building as the communal areas may start to deteriorate where services are not paid for b) if the tenants have a dispute with the running of the building you will want to know about it Are there any major works on the horizon that will increase the maintenance costs? Plenty Frant leasehold properties will incur a service bill for maintenance of the block set on behalf of the management company. If you acquire the flat you will have to meet this charge, usually periodically accross the year. This may differ from a few hundred pounds to thousands of pounds for large purpose-built blocks. There will also be a rentcharge for you to pay yearly, ordinarily this is not a large figure, say about £25-£75 but you should to check it because sometimes it could be surprisingly expensive.

How much experience do your Frant conveyancing solicitors have with Help To Buy, Shared Equity and similar schemes?

Frant conveyancing lawyers help thousands of people move home every year and helped plenty of clients through the Help To Buy scheme. The chances are that whatever makes your case unique Frant conveyancers have worked on recent similar matters.