Can your site be used to recommend a Conveyancing solicitor in Kingsbury even if I’m not buying or disposing of a house, for example where I intend to acquire a shop in Kingsbury with a mortgage from Barnsley Building Society?

Our search tool is mainly used to select domestic conveyancing solicitors in Kingsbury but we have listed at the end of this page some Kingsbury commercial conveyancing firms. You will need to speak with the solicitors directly to establish if they are also authorised to represent Barnsley Building Society

Are the BSA intent on creating a search tool with a view to to identify solicitors on the Melton Mowbray Building Society conveyancing panel for instance in Kingsbury?

We are not aware of any plans on the part of the BSA to promote such a search facility.

A relative suggested that if I am buying in Kingsbury I should ask my conveyancer to perform a Neighbourhood, Planning and Local Amenity Search. Can you explain what the purpose of this search is?

A search of this type is sometimes quoted for as part of the standard Kingsbury conveyancing searches. It is not a small report of about 40 pages, listing and setting out important information about Kingsbury around the property and the people living there. It incorporates an Aerial Photograph, Planning Applications, Land Use, Mobile Phone Masts, Rights of Way, the Kingsbury Housing Market, Council Tax Banding, the demographics of People living in the area, the dominant type of Housing, the Average Property Price, Crime statistics, Kingsbury Education with plans and statistics, Local Amenities and other useful data about Kingsbury.

Can you provide any advice for leasehold conveyancing in Kingsbury with the aim of expediting the sale process?

• Much of the delay in leasehold conveyancing in Kingsbury can be reduced if you get in touch lawyers as soon as you market your property and request that they start to collate the leasehold information needed by the purchasers’ conveyancers.
In the event that you altered the property did you need the Landlord’s consent? Have you, for example installed wooden flooring? Most leases in Kingsbury state that internal structural changes or laying down wooden flooring necessitate a licence from the Landlord consenting to such works. If you dont have the approvals to hand you should not contact the landlord without checking with your solicitor in the first instance. Some Kingsbury leases require Landlord’s consent to the sale and approval of the buyers. If this is the case, it would be prudent to notify your estate agents to make sure that the purchasers obtain financial (bank) and professional references. The bank reference will need to confirm that the buyers are able to meet the yearly service charge and the actual amount of the service charge should be quoted in the bank’s letter. You will therefore need to provide your estate agents with the service charge figures so that they can pass this information on to the buyers or their solicitors. If there is a history of any disputes with your landlord or managing agents it is essential that these are resolved before the property is put on the market. The buyers and their solicitors will be concerned about purchasing a flat where there is an ongoing dispute. You may need to swallow your pride and discharge any arrears of service charge or resolve the dispute prior to the buyers completing the purchase. It is therefore preferable to have any dispute settled prior to the contract papers being issued to the buyers’ solicitors. You are still duty bound to disclose details of the dispute to the buyers, but it is better to reveal the dispute as historic rather than ongoing.

Having spent months of dialogue we simply can't agree with our landlord on how much the lease extension should cost for our flat in Kingsbury. Can we issue an application to the Residential Property Tribunal Service?

Most certainly. We are happy to put you in touch with a Kingsbury conveyancing firm who can help.

An example of a Lease Extension case for a Kingsbury flat is 27B Hillside in February 2010. the resulting premium, all other aspects of the valuation having been agreed between the parties was set at £8,250 This case affected 1 flat. The unexpired residue of the current lease was 70.25 years.

My brother purchased his flat in Kingsbury eight years ago. He has been wed, divorced and is now remarried. He now wishes to dispose of the Kingsbury property. I think he will just be asked to provide a copy of the marriage certificates to the conveyancer however he is concerned it will frustrate the conveyancing. Is it worth updating the land title details for the property?

The is no need to update the title for the property as long as you have the proof required to demonstrate how the change of name occurred.

Any purchaser’s lawyer should review the title entries and need evidence by way of proof of the name change e.g. marriage documentation.