How up to date is your search tool for Hampden Pk conveyancing solicitors on the Skipton conveyancing panel? Do Skipton send you an updated list?

Hampden Pk conveyancing firms themselves provide us confirmation that they are on the Skipton conveyancing panel as opposed to being supplied with a list from Skipton directly.

It has been four months since my purchase conveyancing in Hampden Pk concluded. I have checked the Land Registry website which shows that I paid £200,000 when infact I paid £160,000. Why the discrepancy?

The price paid figure is taken from the application to register the purchase. It is the figure included in the Transfer (the legal deed which transfers the property from one person to the other) and referred to as the 'consideration' or purchase price. You can report an error in the price paid figure using the LR online form. In most cases errors result from typos so at first glance the figure. Do report it so they can double check and advise.

I am looking for a leasehold apartment up to £245,000 and found one round the corner in Hampden Pk I like with open areas and railway links nearby, however it only has 49 remaining years left on the lease. I can't really find anything else in Hampden Pk for this price, so just wondered if I would be making a mistake purchasing a short lease?

Should you require a mortgage the shortness of the lease will be an issue. Discount the price by the amount the lease extension will cost if it has not already been discounted. If the current owner has owned the property for at least twenty four months you may request that they commence the lease extension formalities and pass it to you. An additional ninety years can be extended on to the existing lease with a zero ground rent applied. You should speak to your conveyancing solicitor about this matter.

In my capacity as executor for the estate of my aunt I am selling a property in Cardiff but I am based in Hampden Pk. My lawyer (who is 260 miles awayneeds me to sign a statutory declaration prior to the transaction finalising. Can you recommend a conveyancing lawyer in Hampden Pk to attest and place their company stamp on the document?

Technically speaking you should not be required to have the documents witnessed by a conveyancing solicitor. Ordinarily any notary public or qualified solicitor will suffice regardless of whether they are located in Hampden Pk

A licensed conveyancer handled my conveyancing in Hampden Pk half a dozen years past and was holding my registration documents but has since been shut down – What steps do I now take to retreive these?

Title deeds, as such, no longer exist as the majority of homes in Hampden Pk are registered electronically at Land Registry. If you need to establish evidence of proprietorship or are selling or refinancing your solicitor can obtain up to date copies of the register from the Land Registry in any case.

If you feel there may be other documents or you have any other queries please e-mail your request with details of the transaction and documents you need to filerequest@clc-uk.org. The CLC will let you know what information they have and any additional information they may need before they are in a position to identify and send the documents to you. Following an intervention it may take some time for the CLC to access archived files and documents, but your request will be actioned with reasonable haste.