Finally the sale completed on my house in Nottingham last September yet the purchaser is e-mailing every few hours to say their solicitor is waiting to hear from mine. What are the post completion sale legalities following completion?
After completion of your house sale your conveyancer is duty bound to forward the transfer deeds and all supplemental paperwork to the buyer’s lawyers. Depending on the transaction, your lawyer should also send confirmation that the mortgage has been discharged to the buyers lawyers. There are no post completion formalities just for conveyancing in Nottingham.
Do I need to pay for insurance to protect me from financial exposure to chancel repairs when buying a house in Nottingham?
Unless a prior acquisition of the property completed post 12 October 2013 you can expect solicitors handling conveyancing in Nottingham to continue to suggest a chancel search and or insurance against a claim.
I used Action Conveyancing a few years past for my conveyancing in Nottingham. Now, I need my documents but the law firm has closed. What do I do?
You should contact the Solicitors Regulatory Authority (SRA) to assist in tracking down 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 Nottingham of the conveyancing firm of solicitors you previously hired, the name of conveyancing solicitor with whom you had dealings, and the date on which you last had dealings with the firm.
Over the last few months I have been searching for a flat up to £235,500 and found one round the corner in Nottingham I like with a park and railway links nearby, however it's only got 49 years on the lease. I can't really find anything else in Nottingham for this price, so just wondered if I would be making a grave error acquiring a short lease?
Should you need a home loan the remaining unexpired lease term will likely be a potential deal breaker. Reduce the offer by the anticipated lease extension will cost if not already taken into account. If the existing owner has owned the property for at least 2 years you could ask them to start the process of the extension and then assign it to you. You can add 90 years to the existing lease term with a zero ground rent applied. You should speak to your conveyancing solicitor regarding this.
What are my options where I am unhappy with the conveyancer who carried out our conveyancing in Nottingham?
We live in an imperfect world, and unfortunately occasionally matters do not go as planned. Nevertheless there is recourse where you were not happy with your conveyancing in Nottingham. This varies from trying to resolve matters directly with them, through to reporting a property lawyer to their regulator. If things still aren’t resolved you may consider enlisting the help of the Legal Ombudsman.