What will a local search tell me concerning the house we're purchasing in South Woodford?

South Woodford conveyancing often starts with the applying for local authority searches directly from your local Authority or through a personal search organisations for example Searches UK The local search plays an important part in most South Woodford conveyancing purchase; as long as you don’t want any nasty once you have moved into your property. The search should provide data on, amongst other things, details on planning applications relevant to the premises (whether granted or refused), building control history, any enforcement action, restrictions on permitted development, nearby road schemes, contaminated land and radon gas; in all a total of thirteen subject headings.

I have justfound out that Action Conveyancing have closed. They conducted my conveyancing in South Woodford for a purchase of a freehold house 12 months ago. How can I establish that the property is in my name in the name of the previous owner?

The quickest method to check if the property is registered to you, you can make a search of the land registry (£3.00). You can either do this yourself or ask a law firm to do this for you. If you are not registered you can seek help from one of a number of South Woodford conveyancing specialists.

How does conveyancing in South Woodford differ for newly converted properties?

Most buyers of new build residence in South Woodford come to us having been asked by the housebuilder to sign contracts and commit to the purchase even before the residence is ready to move into. This is because builders in South Woodford usually acquire the real estate, plan the estate and want to get the plots sold off as they are building the properties. Buyers, therefore, will have to exchange contracts without actually seeing the house they are buying. To reduce the chances of losing the property, buyers should instruct conveyancing solicitors as soon as the property is reserved and mortgage applications should be submitted quickly. Due to the fact that it could be several months and even years between exchange of contracts and completion, the mortgage offer may need to be extended. It would be wise to use a lawyer who specialises in new build conveyancing especially if they are used to new build conveyancing in South Woodford or who has acted in the same development.

We are one month into a residential purchase having been directed to solicitors by the high street agent to handle our conveyancing in South Woodford. I am am extremely dissatisfied with the level of service. Could you help me find new solicitors?

A solicitor would need to be really bad in order to consider diss instructing them. Has the mortgage offer been issued? In the event that it has you need to advise them of the replacement solicitor and have the offer are issued to the new lawyers. Your new solicitor ideally needs to be on the mortgage company approved list to avoid escalating charges and delays. That should be your starting point. The find a solicitor tool should help you find a lender approved solicitor for your conveyancing in South Woodford

I need to find a bank panel solicitor in South Woodford. Can you assist?

Unfortunately it’s not apparent why you need a South Woodford panel solicitor but in any event, if you can not find one on our search tool you will need to speak directly to the mortgage company to find out which solicitors in South Woodford are on their panel . If you do find such a firm in South Woodford not listed please direct them to our site to list. After all the cost is only one £1 a month