I went with a local solicitor for our conveyancing in New Beckenham last week. Upon checking the small print I noteI am responsible for costs even where the transaction does not complete. Should I ditch them and use a web based firm promising no move no charge conveyancing in New Beckenham?
It is usually ‘give and take’ in that if "No Sale No Fee" is offered then the fee levels will generally be uplifted to offset those transactions that abort. You should be mindful that such deals rarely cover outlay for example New Beckenham conveyancing search costs.
Can I use your services to recommend a Conveyancing solicitor in New Beckenham even where I’m not purchasing or selling a house, for example where I intend to acquire a shop in New Beckenham with a loan from Godiva Mortgages Ltd?
The service is mainly used to select residential conveyancing solicitors in New Beckenham but we have set out at the end of this page a few New Beckenham commercial conveyancing firms. You will need to make contact with the solicitors directly to see if they are also authorised to represent Godiva Mortgages Ltd
The New Beckenham conveyancing lawyers that I recently instructed on my purchase in New Beckenham have without warning shut down. I only went with them because I needed a solicitor on the Nationwide conveyancing panel and my family New Beckenham lawyer was not. I gave my credit card details for them to take one hundred and fifty pounds for searches. What do I do now?
If you have an estate agent involved then inform them immediately so that they advise the vendors that there may be a slight delay due to reasons beyond your control. Hopefully they will be sympathetic and urge their lawyer to send a new set of papers to your new solicitors. You will need to appoint new lawyers that are on the Nationwide conveyancing panel and notify the lender. If you have paid over any money, it will hopefully be held by the SRA as money in an intervened firm's bank accounts is transferred to the SRA. Then, the SRA or the intervention agent looks at the intervened firm's accounts to work out who the money belongs to. To claim your money you will need to contact the SRA. If the SRA cannot return money you are owed from the firm's bank accounts, or if they can only return part of the money, you can apply to the Compensation Fund for a grant. Your new lawyers should be in a position to assist.
Yesterday I discovered that there is a flying freehold issue on a property I have offered on two weeks back in what should have been a simple, chain free conveyancing. New Beckenham is where the house is located. Can you offer any advice?
Flying freeholds in New Beckenham are rare but are more likely to exist in relation to terraced houses. Even though you don't necessarily need a conveyancing solicitor in New Beckenham you must be sure that your lawyer goes through the deeds thoroughly. Your bank may require your conveyancing solicitor to take out an indemnity policy. Some of the more diligent conveyancing solicitors in New Beckenham may determine that this is not enough and that the deeds be re-written to give you the most up to date legal protection. If so, the next door neighbour also had to sign up to the revised deeds.It is possible that your lender will not accept the situation so the sooner you find out the better. You should also check with your insurance broker as to whether they will insure a flying freehold property.
My plan is to purchase a ground floor maisonette in New Beckenham. Conveyancing solicitor is waiting for, from the owner, building insurance documents. Earlier today I was informed that the seller must send the insurance documents for the flat above also. Why does my solicitor want to see the insurance for the flat above? Is it strictly required? We have been stalled for the previous fortnight…
It is not impossible in leasehold conveyancing in New Beckenham to find Conveyancing in New Beckenham in a minority of cases reveals that the lease obliges the tenant's to insure their individual flats as opposed to the freeholder insuring the complete block - which is clearly better. Do contact your property lawyer but it would seem that your solicitor is looking to establish that the entire building is insured. Insuring your flat is no help when it comes to rebuilding after a fire if the other flat cannot be reconstructed for lack of insurance.