We are acquiring our first home. The solicitor has texted usto ask if we wish to take out additional conveyancing searches. As novices we in the dark as to what's needed for conveyancing in Wood Green

The range of Wood Green conveyancing searches depends primarily on the property, the location, the possibility of any of these risks, your familiarity of the area and risks, your general appetite to risk. What matters is that you adequately comprehend what information each search could give you. You may then make a decision if you personally think you need that information. Should you be in doubt, ask the property lawyer to explain.

As someone unfamiliar with the Wood Green conveyancing process what is the number one tip you can give me for the ownership transfer in Wood Green

You may not hear this from too many lawyers but conveyancing in Wood Green and elsewhere in North London is often a confrontational process. Put another way, when it comes to conveyancing there is an abundance of room for conflict between you and other parties involved in the transaction. For example, the seller, estate agent and sometimes your bank. Choosing a lawyer for your conveyancing in Wood Green an important selection as your conveyancer is your adviser, and is the ONE party in the transaction whose role it is to act in your legal interests and to keep you safe.

We are witnessing a definite ongoing adversarial element to conveyancing- someone has to be blamed for the process being so protracted. You your first instinct should be to trust your lawyer ahead of the other players in the home moving process.

My colleague recommended that where I am purchasing in Wood Green I should ask my conveyancer to perform a Neighbourhood, Planning and Local Amenity Search. Can you explain what the purpose of this search is?

This is a search is sometimes included in the estimate for your Wood Green conveyancing searches. It is a large document of more than thirty pages, listing and setting out important information about Wood Green around the property and the people living there. It incorporates an Aerial Photograph, Planning Applications, Land Use, Mobile Phone Masts, Rights of Way, the Wood Green Housing Market, Council Tax Banding, the type of People living in the area, the dominant type of Housing, the Average Property Price, Crime statistics, Wood Green Education with maps and statistics, Local Amenities and other useful information concerning Wood Green.

What tools are available to identify a Wood Green solicitor on the Coventry Building Society conveyancing panel? I drive a motor bike and am happy to travel upto 10miles to meet the lawyer.

You can use the facility on this website. Please select a bank and your location and you will see a number of Wood Green conveyancing lawyers located nearest you. We have listed some Wood Green conveyancing firms towards the end of this page and you can call them to see whether they are on the Coventry Building Society panel

Some weeks ago I was advised by my lender that their approved solicitors work on no completion no fee basis for conveyancing in Wood Green. I had a purchase abort and now the lawyers have invoiced for search fees! They say the fees are independent!

By offering "no sale no fee" Wood Green conveyancing practices are waiving their charges for any work conducted. We should make it clear that this is NOT an insurance scheme. Disbursements aren’t covered – where the lawyer have to pay money out to other people, e.g. Wood Green local search fees