Why is leasehold purchase conveyancing in West Green costs more?
West Green leasehold conveyancing transactions usually involve additional investigations than freeholds including investigating the Lease, liaising with the Landlord such as serving appropriate notices on the Landlord or managing agent, obtaining up-to-date service charge and management information, obtaining Landlord’s consents and reviewing management accounts and formation documents.
I am the single recipient of my late grandmother’s estate with all property in now in my sole name, including the my former home in West Green. Conveyancing formalities meant that the Land Registry date was in January. I plan to dispose of the property. I understand that there is a CML 6 month 'rule', meaning my property ownership may be considered the same way as though I had purchased the house in January. Will no one buy the property for half a year?
The Council of Mortgage Lenders’ handbook instructs conveyancers to: "report to us immediately if the owner or registered proprietor has been registered for less than six months." Technically you may be affected by that. Most mortgage companies would take a pragmatic view as this requirement is principally there to pick up on the purchase and immediately sell or the quick reselling of property.
We had instructed conveyancing lawyers with offices in West Green on the Coventry BS solicitor approved list. They have just billed me a further sum for dealing with the Coventry BS mortgage. Is this a supplemental conveyancing fee specified by Coventry BS?
Provided it is contained in their Terms of Engagement or estimate then yes your property lawyer may levy a fee for this. This charge is not dictated by Coventry BS but by your West Green conveyancer. Plenty of firms on the Coventry BS panel will charge ’dealing with mortgage’ fee and others do not.
My partner and I have arranged the release of further funds on our mortgage from RBS as we want to carry out renovations to our home in West Green. Are we obliged to appoint a local West Green solicitor on the RBS conveyancing panel to handle the paperwork?
RBS don't usually appoint firms on their conveyancing panel to handle the formalities. If they do require any legal work then you would need to ensure that such a lawyer was on the RBS conveyancing panel.
I used Action Conveyancing a few years ago for my conveyancing in West Green. Now, I need my documents however the law firm is no longer operating. What do I do?
Do call the Solicitors Regulatory Authority (SRA) to assist in tracking down your conveyancing files. They can be contacted on please contact on 0870 606 2555. Alternatively, you should use their online form to make an enquiry. You will need to provide the SRA with as much information as possible to assist their search, including the name and address in West Green of the conveyancing firm of solicitors you previously instructed, the name of conveyancing solicitor with whom you had dealings, and the date on which you last had dealings with the firm.
How difficult is it to change firm as I need to instruct one who is on the Birmingham Midshires conveyancing list. I instructed a high street conveyancing solicitor in West Green five minutes from me but the firm is not approved by Birmingham Midshires
We will our best to assist in finding you a conveyancing solicitor in West Green on the Birmingham Midshires panel. Please note that the conveyancers that we on the directory do not pay us a referral fee if you instruct them and are registered with the SRA who regulate all conveyancing solicitors in West Green. Using the find a conveyancing solicitor tool on this page, you can scrutinise costs for conveyancing solicitors in West Green and throughout England and Wales.
My husband and I are FTB’s - agreed a price, yet the agent told us that the vendor will only go ahead if we appoint their recommended lawyers as they need an ‘expedited deal’. We would rather use a family solicitor with experience of conveyancing in West Green
It is highly unlikely the owners are driving this. Should the owner desire ‘a quick sale', alienating a serious buyer is not the way to achieve this. Contact the vendors directly and explain that (a)you are serious purchasers (b)you are excited to move forward, with mortgage lined up © you do not need to sell (d) you wish to move quickly (e)but you are going to use your own,trusted West Green conveyancing firm - not the ones that will earn the negotiator at the agency a commission or meet his conveyancing targets pre-set by senior management.