Can your site be used to find a Conveyancing solicitor in Southbourne even if I’m not buying or selling a house, for instance where I wish to buy a shop in Southbourne with a loan from Aldermore?

The service is predominantly used to get a quote from domestic conveyancing solicitors in Southbourne but we have listed towards the bottom of this page a selection of Southbourne commercial conveyancing firms. You should make contact with the company directly to establish if they can also act for Aldermore

This question may be naive but I am unexperienced as a first time purchaser of a ground floor flat in Southbourne. Do I pick up the keys to the premises on completion from my lawyer? If this is the case, I will instruct a High Street conveyancing solicitor in Southbourne?

There is no need to visit the lawyers office on the day of completion. Your solicitors will transfer the completion advance to the owner’s solicitors, and shortly after the monies have arrived, you should be able to pick up the keys from the Estate Agents and start moving into the property. Usually this happens between 1 and 3pm.

We have a mortgage agreed in principle with Virgin Money. Southbourne conveyancing solicitors have been chosen. What is the average time that one could expect to receive a mortgage offer from Virgin Money?

Some lenders take longer than others. Have Virgin Money conducted the survey? Have you advised Virgin Money as to your lawyers' details and checked that your lawyers are on the Virgin Money conveyancing panel? Sometimes it can take as long as six weeks for a mortgage offer to be issued.

I recently had an offer accepted on an apartment in Southbourne. My mortgage broker pressured me to appoint their conveyancing practitioner. I paid an advanced payment of £150. A couple of days later, the property lawyer called me embarrassingly acknowledging that they were not on the Nottingham conveyancing panel. Am I right in thinking that I should be due a refund?

You should be able to recover this from the law firm if they were not on the Nottingham panel. They should have asked at the outset which lender you were obtaining a mortgage with. An important lesson to readers of this site is to check that the lawyers are on the appropriate lender panel.

The deeds to our house can not be found. The lawyers who handled the conveyancing in Southbourne 10 years ago are no longer around. What are my options?

These day there are copies made of almost everything, and your conveyancer will be aware exactly where to find all the suitable documentation so you may buy or dispose of your property without any difficulty. Where duplicates can’t be found, your solicitor can arrange cover in the form of insurance or indemnities against future claims on your premises.

We're first time buyers - had an offer accepted, but the estate agent informed us that the vendor will only proceed if we use their recommended lawyers as they want a ‘quick sale’. Our preferred option is to instruct a high street conveyancer used to conveyancing in Southbourne

We suspect that the owner is unaware of this ultimatum. Should the owner want ‘a quick sale', taking such a hostile approach to a motivated purchaser is not the way to achieve this. Speak to the vendors direct and explain that (a)you are genuine buyers (b)you are ready to progress, with finances arranged © you are chain free (d) you wish to move quickly (e)however you are going to use your own,trusted Southbourne conveyancing firm - not the ones that will earn the negotiator at the agency a commission or hit his conveyancing targets pre-set by head office.

I need to consider estimates for conveyancing in Southbourne from numerous conveyancer and decide on one. Am I right to instruct them to sit tight until I I have an offer accepted on a flat.

We would recommend that you wait to ask your lawyer to start work and apply for searches once the offer has been agreed to on the property especially as Southbourne conveyancing searches are a couple of hundred pounds.