A relative recommended that if I am purchasing in Polperro I should ask my conveyancer to execute a Neighbourhood, Planning and Local Amenity Search. Can you explain what the purpose of this search is?
This is a search is occasionally included in the estimate for your Polperro conveyancing searches. It is not a small report of more than thirty pages, listing and setting out significant information about Polperro around the property and the people living there. It incorporates an Aerial Photograph, Planning Applications, Land Use, Mobile Phone Masts, Rights of Way, the local Housing Market, Council Tax Banding, the demographics of People living in the area, the dominant type of Housing, the Average Property Price, Crime statistics, Local Education with plans and statistics, Local Amenities and other useful information regarding Polperro.
Over the last few months I have been searching for a leasehold apartment up to £195,000 and identified one close by in Polperro I like with amenity areas and railway links nearby, the downside is that it only has 49 remaining years left on the lease. There is not much else in Polperro in this price bracket, so just wondered if I would be making a mistake buying a short lease?
If you need a home loan that many years will be an issue. Reduce the price by the amount the lease extension will cost if it has not already been discounted. If the current owner has owned the property for at least twenty four months you could request that they start the process of the extension and then assign it to you. You can add 90 years to the current lease term and have £0 ground rent by law. You should speak to your conveyancing solicitor about this.
As co-executor for the will of my grandfather I am selling a property in Swansea but I am based in Polperro. My solicitor (who is 250 kilometers awayrequires that I sign a statutory declaration prior to the transaction finalising. Could you suggest a conveyancing lawyer in Polperro who can attest and place their company stamp on the document?
Technically speaking you are unlikely to need to have the documents witnessed by a conveyancing solicitor. Normally or notary public or qualified solicitor will be fine regardless of whether they are based in Polperro