My IFA requires my Pembrokeshire solicitor’s panel reference for the Lloyds conveyancing panel. How do I discover this. I have tried my local Pembrokeshire office but they have not got back to me yet.
Have you tried calling your Pembrokeshire conveyancing practitioner about this?. They maintain a central record lender panel numbers.
The Pembrokeshire conveyancing firm that I appointed last week on my purchase in Pembrokeshire have without warning shut down. I only went with them because I had to have a firm on the Coventry BS conveyancing panel and my previous Pembrokeshire lawyer was not. I sent them a cheque for £250 in advance. What do I do now?
If you have an estate agent involved then inform them straight away so that they advise the vendors that there may be a slight delay due to the problems encountered. 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 Coventry BS 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 may be able to assist.
My relative suggested that if I am buying in Pembrokeshire I should ask my conveyancer to perform a Neighbourhood, Planning and Local Amenity Search. Can you explain what the purpose of this search is?
This is a search is sometimes included in the estimate for your Pembrokeshire conveyancing searches. It is not a small document of more than thirty pages, listing and detailing important information about Pembrokeshire around the property and the people living there. It includes an Aerial Photograph, Planning Applications, Land Use, Mobile Phone Masts, Rights of Way, the Pembrokeshire Housing Market, Council Tax Banding, the type of People living in the area, the dominant type of Housing, the Average Property Price, Crime details, Pembrokeshire Education with maps and statistics, Local Amenities and other useful information regarding Pembrokeshire.
I have a semi-detached Victorian property in Pembrokeshire. Conveyancing solicitor acted for me and Nottingham Building Society. I happened to do a free search for it on the Land Registry database and I saw two entries: one for freehold, another for leasehold under the matching address. Is it worth asking Nottingham Building Society to clarify?
You should review the Freehold register you have again and check the Charges Register for mention of a lease. The best way to be sure that you are also the registered proprietor of the leasehold and freehold title as well is to check (£3). It is not completely unheard of in Pembrokeshire and other locations in the country and poses no real issues for owners other than when they remortgage they have to account for both freehold and leasehold interests when dealing with buyers. You can also enquire as to the position with the conveyancing lawyer who carried out the work.
How difficult is it to switch firm as I need to select a firm on the Halifax conveyancing panel. I hired a high street conveyancing solicitor in Pembrokeshire five minutes from me but he is not approved by Halifax
It would be our pleasure to help you select a conveyancing solicitor in Pembrokeshire on the Halifax panel. Please note that the property lawyers that we work with do not pay us commission if you instruct them and are fully regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority who regulate all conveyancing solicitors in Pembrokeshire. In utilising search facility on this site, you can compare charges for conveyancing solicitors in Pembrokeshire and throughout England and Wales.