Is there a reason why leasehold purchase conveyancing in Lakenheath is more expensive?

Lakenheath leasehold conveyancing transactions usually involve additional investigations than freeholds including investigating the Lease, liaising with the Landlord such as serving applicable notices on the Landlord or managing agent, obtaining up-to-date service charge and management information, obtaining Landlord’s consents and reviewing management accounts and formation documents.

My flat in Lakenheath is up for sale and I have a purchaser. Will the lawyer have to be on the HSBC conveyancing panel in order to deal with repayment of my mortgage?

Ordinarily, even if your lawyer is not on the HSBC conveyancing panel they can still act for you on your sale. It might be that the lender will not release the original deeds (if applicable and increasingly irrelevant) until after the mortgage is paid off. You should speak to your lawyer directly before you start the process though to ensure that there is no problem as lenders are changing their specifications fairly frequently in recent years.

The deeds to my home can not be found. The solicitors who dealt with the conveyancing in Lakenheath 5 years ago are no longer around. Will I be able to sell the house?

Assuming the title is registered the information relating to your proprietorship will be recorded by the Land Registry with a Title Number. It is possible to carry out a search at the Land Registry, locate your property and order current copies of the property title for less than a fiver. Where the title is Leasehold then the Land Registry will also normally retain a file duplicate of the Registered Lease and again, a copy can be retrieved for £20 inclusive of VAT.

In my capacity as executor for the estate of my grandmother I am disposing of a property in Swansea but I am based in Lakenheath. My conveyancer (based 300 kilometers awayrequires that I sign a statutory declaration ahead of completion. Can you recommend a conveyancing practitioner in Lakenheath who can attest and place their company stamp on the document?

Technically speaking you are not likely to be required to have the documents attested by a conveyancing solicitor. Normally or notary public or qualified solicitor will suffice regardless of whether they are located in Lakenheath

My cousin is purchasing a studio flat in Lakenheath. He was given a quote by the lawyer recommended by the estate agents totaling £1245 . It was seven years ago since I sold and bought a home and the bill was £just under five hundred pounds. Have costs really gone up that much?

What does the conveyancing estimate include? Is it just for the legal fees, or what you will be paying in total (for example Lakenheath searches, land registry fees, etc)