I am obtaining a mortgage with Nat West. I intend to instruct a Licensed Conveyancer in West Malling. Does the Nat West Conveyancing panel exclude Licensed Conveyancers?

The Nat West conveyancing panel is, like many other lenders, represented by the Council or Mortgage Lenders or BSA, open to Licensed Conveyancers regulated by the CLC.

We are looking to buy a house and need a conveyancing solicitor in West Malling who is on the Nottingham solicitor panel. Could you point me in the right direction as regards a 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 Nottingham . We don't recommend any particular firms conducting conveyancing in West Malling.

Me and my partner are buying a apartment in West Malling. I might seem paranoid but how we can trust a lawyer? At some point we will need to send money into their account. What is the protection we have from them run away with our deposit?

Be assured that all money in a Solicitors client account is 100% safe, and even if your Solicitor ran off with it, the Law Society would reimburse you fully.

I'm the sole beneficiary of my late father’s estate and I have everything in my name alone, including the my former home in West Malling. The West Malling property was put into my name in January. I now wish to sell up. I understand that there is a Mortgage Lenders six month 'rule', meaning my proprietorship may be treated 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 requires solicitors to: "report to us immediately if the owner or registered proprietor has been registered for less than six months." By the strict wording you may be affected by that. Some mortgage companies would take a sensible view as this obligation is chiefly there to identify the purchase and immediately sell or the flipping of properties.

My partner and I are in the process of looking at flats in West Malling and I am about to put in an offer. Is it too early to have a solicitor in place? I am planning to take a mortgage with Virgin Money.

You should start obtaining conveyancing quotes from solicitors ASAP. After you have chosen your lawyer and once your offer is accepted you can instruct them to work for you and forward their contact information on to the estate agent. Given that you are obtaining a mortgage with Virgin Money, ask your prospective lawyers if they are on the Virgin Money conveyancing panel otherwise they can't do the mortgage legal work.

Should commercial conveyancing searches reveal planned roadworks that could affect a commercial site in West Malling?

Its becoming the norm that commercial conveyancing solicitors in West Malling will conduct a SiteSolutions Highways report as it dramatically cuts the time that conveyancers invest in investigating accurate data on highways that impact buildings and development assets in West Malling. The search result sets out definitive data on the adoption status of roads, footpaths and verges, as well as the implication of traffic schemes and the rights of way surrounding a commercial development sites in West Malling.

For each commercial conveyancing transaction in West Malling it is critical to investigate the adoption status of roads surrounding a site. Failure to identify developments where adoption procedures have not been addressed adequately may result in delays to West Malling commercial conveyancing transactions as well as present a risk to future intentions for the site. These searches are not carried out for domestic conveyancing in West Malling.

I have todaydiscovered that Wolstenholmes have been shut down. They carried out my conveyancing in West Malling for a purchase of a leasehold apartment 9 months ago. How can I be sure that my home is registered correctly in the name of the former proprietor?

The quickest method to check if the premises is registered to you, you can carry out 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 West Malling conveyancing specialists.