We were just about to sign contracts for a ground floor flat in Markyate. We encountered a stumbling block. Our mortgage offer with The Royal Bank of Scotland runs out on 28/4/2025 but the owners are insisting on a completion date of 30/4/2025. Can one extend the mortgage expiry date?
The best person to address this question is your solicitors who will hopefully assess whether he or she is should be discussing with the bank, owner’s representatives, property agents or possibly all three given the circumstances your conveyancing as of today.
We see that you have a post code search directory listing firms on the RBS conveyancing panel. Do companies pay you a commission if I appoint them for our conveyancing in Markyate?
We are a listing service only for law firms wishing to communicate if they are on the RBS conveyancing panel or other lender panels. We do not charge referral fees to any conveyancer that you subsequently appoint for your conveyancing in Markyate.
What is the optimum way to discover of the solicitor conducting my conveyancing in Markyate is on the bank’sapproved panel? I am looking to avoid the situation of having one lawyer for me and one for Santander thus paying £192.00 in additional conveyancing fees.
You should make use of the find a conveyancing panel solicitor tool on this web page. Please choose the lender and type ‘Markyate’ or your preferred area and you will be presented with a number of lawyer based in Markyate or nearest you.
I am buying my first flat in Markyate benefiting from help to buy. The sellers refused to reduce the amount so I negotiated five thousand pounds worth of extras instead. The house builders rep suggested that I not disclose to my conveyancer about the extras as it could affect my loan with Platform Home Loans Ltd. Is this normal?.
All lenders require a Disclosure of Incentives Form from the developer of any new build, converted or renovated property, It is available online from the Lenders’ Handbook page on the CML website. CML form is completed and handed to the lender's surveyor when the inspection is done.
Lenders have different policies on incentives. Some accept none at all, cash or physical, while others will accept cash incentives up to 5%.
Hard to understand why the representative of a builder would be suggesting you withold information from a solicitor when all this will be clearly visible on forms the builder has to supply to its solicitor, the buyer's solicitor and the surveyor.
Hoping to buy a property located in Markyate and I am already nervous. I couldn't find anything specific about Markyate. Conveyancing will be needed in due course but do you know about the Markyate area? or perhaps some other tips you can share?
Rather than looking online forget looking online you should go and have a look at Markyate. In the meantime here are some basic statistics that we found