I am helping my mother sell her property in Margam. Will the solicitor arrange an energy assessment or it is for me to coordinate?
Following the demise of Home Packs, EPC’s was retained a required part of selling a house. An EPC should be commissioned before the property is marketed. It is not as aspect of the sale process that conveyancers normally arrange. If you are using a Margam conveyancing solicitor they might help arrange energy assessments given their contacts with long established Margam assessors
We are getting a further advance on our mortgage from Nottingham as we want to conduct improvements to our house in Margam. Do we need to appoint a nearby Margam solicitor on the Nottingham conveyancing panel to handle the legals?
Nottingham do not ordinarily require a member of their approved list of lawyers to handle such a matter. If they do require any legal work then you would need to ensure that such a lawyer was on the Nottingham panel.
Planning on purchasing a house in Margam. I have received an online quote from a licenced conveyancer, which states: "There will be no charge for dealing with the Lender if you are obtaining a mortgage". I take this to mean that there will be no additional fee if the solicitor is on the Leeds Building Society conveyancing panel. I wanted to make sure it means there will be no additional fees for dealing with the mortgage.
They are simply saying that the cost for acting for the lender is included in the fee being quoted. It is worth you checking that the Margam conveyancing practitioner is on the Leeds Building Society conveyancing panel.
What will a local search inform me about the house I am buying in Margam?
Margam conveyancing often starts with the submitting local authority searches directly from your local Authority or via a personal search organisations for instance Xpress Legal The local search is essential in every Margam conveyancing purchase; as long as you wish to avoid any unpleasant once you have moved into your property. The search should supply data on, amongst other things, details on planning applications applicable to the property (whether granted or refused), building control history, any enforcement action, restrictions on permitted development, nearby road schemes, contaminated land and radon gas; in all a total of thirteen topic headings.
I used Stirling Law a few years past for my conveyancing in Margam. Now, I need my files however cannot find the solicitor. What do I do?
Do call the Solicitors Regulatory Authority (SRA) to assist in tracing 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 Margam 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.
In my capacity as executor for the will of my uncle I am disposing of a house in Neath but live in Margam. My solicitor (who is 235 miles from merequires that I execute a stat dec prior to completion. Could you suggest a conveyancing practitioner in Margam who can witness and place their company stamp on the document?
Technically speaking you are not likely to need to have the documents witnessed by a conveyancing solicitor. Ordinarily any notary public or qualified solicitor will be fine regardless of whether they are located in Margam
My husband and I are buying a first floor flat in Margam. When we first instructed property lawyer, we were told they were on all mainstream bank panels. Our mortgage broker called yesterday to advise that they don't seem to be on the Virgin Money approved list. If it turns out to be true, what should we do? Do we simply find a new conveyancer that is on their panel or should we pay for dual representation, with Virgin Money appointing their own preferred conveyancing practitioner.
If you are acquiring a property needing a mortgage it is usual for the purchaser’s solicitors to also represent the purchaser's lender. In order to act for a bank or building society a solicitor has to be on that lender's conveyancing panel. An application has to be made by the conveyancer to the lender to become a member of the lender's panel and there are increasingly strict conditions which the solicitor has to satisfy. Some mortgage companies now require their panel members to be part of the Law Society’s Conveyancing Quality Scheme. Your property lawyer should call Virgin Money to find out if they can apply for membership of their conveyancing panel, but if that is not viable they will instruct their own solicitors to act. You are not legally obliged to appoint a law firm on Virgin Money's conveyancing panel as you are at liberty to use your preferred Margam lawyers, in which case it will likely add costs, and it will likely delay the transaction as you are adding another solicitor into the equation.