The conveyancer who helped my previous purchase has given a fee calculation of £1150 for no completion no fee conveyancing in Winchelsea. I am hoping to sell a purpose built detached home for £125,000. This seems expensive. Is it above what I should be paying for conveyancing in Winchelsea?
The charges are a bit high. If you shop around you may be able to get the conveyancing a bit cheaper by as much as £125. On the other hand, you mightcome to rue choosing an an unknown lawyer. If is important to enquire the firm can represent your mortgage company. Do use our comparison tool to locate a Winchelsea conveyancing practice on the lender’s conveyancing panel which can often include conveyancing solicitors in Winchelsea.
Can you explain why leasehold purchase conveyancing in Winchelsea is more expensive?
Winchelsea leasehold properties involve far more paperwork than a freehold purchase, and therefore takes more time to examine and advise upon.Conveyancing will involve the lease having to be checked which is usually a lengthy document, queries raised to ensure that the covenants and conditions have been observed. If it is a flat there will be a management company in existence and the accounts of this will need to be checked and enquiries raised to ensure it is operating efficiently and that all monies due have been paid by the Seller to the company and if not ensuring that money is paid up to date or the appropriate undertakings obtained.
If you had a top tip for choosing a conveyancing solicitor in Winchelsea what would it be?
We would encourage you not to go for the cheapest Winchelsea conveyancing fees. You really do get what you’re paying for when it comes to property lawyers. A cheap quote may mean that the conveyancing solicitor is handling a lot of jobs at one time and you won’t get the quality of service and the attention that you need. It is, however, wise to use a conveyancer who has a fixed fee on a no sale, no fee basis. This way, you go into the conveyancing with your eyes wide open.
I have today made my last payment due on my mortgage with Clydesdale. I assume I don't need a Winchelsea lawyer on the Clydesdale panel to discharge the mortgage at the Land Registry. Please confirm.
If you have finished paying off your Clydesdale mortgage, they may send you evidence showing that you have paid it off. Alternatively they may notify the Land Registry directly. The Land Registry need to see this evidence before they will remove the Clydesdale mortgage from the register. Clydesdale, and any evidence they send you, will determine the action you need to take. In cases where no conveyancer is acting for you and you have paid off your mortgage:
- but are not moving to another property
- where Clydesdale has sent the Land Registry the discharge electronically, and
- Clydesdale has instructed the Land Registry to do so
My offer was accepted on an apartment in Winchelsea on 31/10/2024, valuation was booked five days later, received a clean bill of health. Conveyancer appointed, so the only thing outstanding was my mortgage offer. Having made daily calls to Aldermore and chasing them on my offer, I have now been told that my offer will not be issued unless the lawyer is on the Aldermore conveyancing panel. Are Aldermore entitled to hold back the Mortgage pending the lawyer being on the approved list?
Mortgage companies tend not to not issue an offer until they have details of a lawyer on their panel. It can take a few weeks for Aldermore to deal with your lawyer's application to be on the Aldermore conveyancing panel. There's no guarantee that your solicitor will be accepted.
How easy is it to switch solicitor as I need to appoint one who is on the Godiva Mortgages Ltd conveyancing panel. I hired a family conveyancing solicitor in Winchelsea five minutes from me but he is not approved by Godiva Mortgages Ltd
It would be our pleasure to help you find a conveyancing solicitor in Winchelsea on the Godiva Mortgages Ltd panel. Please note that the property lawyers that we on the directory do not pay us a referral fee if you instruct them and are under regulation of the Solicitors Regulation Authority who regulate all conveyancing solicitors in Winchelsea. Using the find a conveyancing solicitor tool on this page, you can compare and instruct different solicitors and conveyancers both nationally and in Winchelsea.
In my capacity as executor for the will of my father I am selling a residence in Monmouth but live in Winchelsea. My solicitor (approximately 300 miles from merequires that I sign a statutory declaration before completion. Could you suggest a conveyancing lawyer in Winchelsea who can witness and place their company stamp on the document?
Technically speaking you are not likely to need to have the documents attested by a conveyancing solicitor. Ordinarily or notary public or solicitor will suffice regardless of whether they are Winchelsea based