I was notified yesterday by my IFA that my The Ridgeway lawyer is not on the mortgage company Conveyancing panel. How can I check?

Your first step should be to contact your The Ridgeway lawyer directly. You lawyer should inform you what has happened. Where they are not on the panel they may be able to suggest a The Ridgeway conveyancing practice that is on the conveyancing panel for your mortgage company.

We are planning to acquire a property and need a conveyancing solicitor in The Ridgeway who is on the Barclays solicitor panel. Can you recommend a local conveyancing firm?

Our service is limited to being a directory service for firms who wish to be listed as being on the approved conveyancing panel for Barclays . We don't recommend any particular firms conducting conveyancing in The Ridgeway.

We hope to to buy with Darlington Building Society. We have called around locally but cant to find a The Ridgeway conveyancing firm on the Darlington Building Society approved list. Please you assist?

Feel free to make the most of the search tool on this site. Pick the lender and type The Ridgeway or your preferred area and you will see numerous solicitors located in The Ridgeway or by proximity to you.

My partner and I are selling our house in The Ridgeway and the buyers lawyers are claiming that there is a risk of it being built on contaminated land. A high street The Ridgeway lawyer would know this is not the case. For the life of me I don't know why the purchasers instructed a national conveyancing practice rather than a conveyancing solicitor in The Ridgeway. Having lived in The Ridgeway for six years we know of no issue. Do we contact our local Authority to get confirmation that the buyers are looking for.

It would appear that you have a conveyancing solicitor currently acting for you. Are they able to advise? You need to check with your lawyer before you do anything. It is very possible that once the local authority has been informed of a potential issue it cannot be insured against (a bit like being diagnosed with a serious illness and then taking out health insurance to cover that same sickness)

I am hoping to sign contracts shortly on a basement flat in The Ridgeway. Conveyancing lawyers have said that they report fully tomorrow. Are there areas in the report that I should be focusing on?

The report on title for your leasehold conveyancing in The Ridgeway should include some of the following:

Whether the landlord has obligations to ensure rights of quiet enjoyment over your property and do you know what it means in practice? Who has the liability for maintaining the window frames Whether your lease has a provision for a reserve fund for major works? Does the lease prevent you from letting out the property, or having a home office for business

I have given up negotiating a lease extension in The Ridgeway. Can this matter be resolved via the Leasehold Valuation Tribunal?

in cases where there is a absentee landlord or where there is disagreement about the premium for a lease extension, under the relevant statutes it is possible to make an application to the First-tier Tribunal (Property Chamber) to decide the premium.

An example of a Lease Extension decision for a The Ridgeway flat is Various @ Colombus Square in January 2012. the Tribunal calculated the premiums to be paid for new leases for each of the flats in Mariners Walk to be £3822 and the premium to be paid for the new lease of 2 Knights Court to be £4439. This case related to 13 flats. The number of years remaining on the existing lease(s) was 76 years.