Me and my wife are purchasing our first home. Our property lawyer has e-mailedto enquire if we would like to take out supplemental conveyancing searches. We are really unsure what's recommended for conveyancing in Westcombe Park
The extent of Westcombe Park conveyancing searches should be triggered based primarily on the premises, the location, the likelihood of any of these risks, your familiarity of the locality and risks, your overall approach to risk. What matters is that you properly appreciate what information the searches could give you. Then you can make a decision if you consider that you need that search. Where you are unclear, ask the lawyer to offer guidance.
Finally the sale completed on my house in Westcombe Park last December but the buyer keeps calling every few hours complaining that their lawyer needs to hear from myconveyancer. What are the post completion sale formalities following completion?
Post completion of your sale your conveyancer should deliver the transfer deeds and all of the paperwork to the buyer’s conveyancer. Where relevant, your conveyancer should also send confirmation that the mortgage has been discharged to the purchasers lawyers. There are no post completion tasks peculiar conveyancing in Westcombe Park.
The deeds to my house can not be found. The conveyancers who did the conveyancing in Westcombe Park 4 years ago are no longer around. What are my next steps?
Gone are the days when you need to have the physical official documentation to prove you are the owner of your registered land or property, as the Land Registry have everything they need in a digital format.
We're new on the property ladder - agreed a price, but the estate agent has warned us that the seller will only issue a contract if we appoint the agent's preferred lawyers as they want an ‘expedited deal’. Our preferred option is to instruct a high street solicitor accustomed to conveyancing in Westcombe Park
It is unlikely the vendors are behind this. If they desire ‘a quick sale', alienating a motivated buyer is going to damage their objectives. Speak to the vendors direct and explain that (a)you are keen to buy (b)you are ready to progress, with finances arranged © you do not need to sell (d) you intend to proceed fast (e)however you will continue to use your preferred Westcombe Park conveyancing firm - not the ones that will give the negotiator at the agency a referral fee or meet his conveyancing targets demanded by senior management.
The property lawyers carrying out our conveyancing in Westcombe Park has forwarded papers to review that reveal that the land is unregistered with epitome documents. Surely all property in Westcombe Park should be registered?
It is unusual for premises in Westcombe Park to be unregistered. An 'epitome' is basically a dossier of photocopies of documents affecting an unregistered title. Many Westcombe Park conveyancing lawyers should be familiar with such matters but if any uncertainty prevails the prevailing advice presently is for the current owners to deal with the registration formalities first and then deal with the sale conveyance - this will predictably cause a drawn-out transaction.