My wife and I swapping mortgage lender for our penthouse in Woodside with UBS. We have a son 19 who lives at home. Our solicitor has asked us to disclose anyone over the age of 17 other than ourselves who lives in the flat. The solicitor has now sent a form for our son to sign, waiving any legal rights in the event that the apartment is repossessed. I have a couple of questions (1) Is this form unique to the UBS conveyancing panel as he did not need to sign this form when we purchased 3 years ago (2) Does our son by signing this giving up his entitlement to inherit the property?

First, rest assured that your UBS conveyancing panel solicitor is doing the right thing as it is established procedure for any occupier who is aged 17 or over to sign the necessary Consent Form, which is purely to state that any rights he has in the property are postponed and secondary to UBS. This is solely used to protect UBS if the property were re-possessed so that in such circumstances, your son would be legally obliged to leave. It does not impact your son’s right to inherit the apartment. Please note that if your son were to inherit and the mortgage in favour of UBS had not been discharged, he would be liable to take over the loan or pay it off, but other than that, there is nothing stopping him from keeping the property in accordance with your will or the rules of intestacy.

We are purchasing a property and require a conveyancing solicitor in Woodside who is on the Skipton solicitor panel. Can you recommend a local solicitor?

Our service is limited to being a directory service for firms who wish to be listed as being on the approved conveyancing panel for Skipton . We don't recommend any particular firms conducting conveyancing in Woodside.

Our mortgage company has suggested a law firm on their panel based in Woodside but I would rather choose a conveyancing lawyer in Woodside round the corner to me. Can you assist?

Not all Woodside conveyancing practitioners are on all lender’s conveyancing panel. Use our find an approved solicitor tool to find a Woodside conveyancing firm on the on the lender panel.

Should commercial conveyancing searches disclose planned roadworks that may affect a commercial premises in Woodside?

Its becoming the norm that commercial conveyancing solicitors in Woodside will carry out a SiteSolutions Highways report as it reduces the time that conveyancers invest in investigating accurate data on highways that impact buildings and development assets in Woodside. The search result provides 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 Woodside.

For each commercial conveyancing transaction in Woodside 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 can result in delays to Woodside commercial conveyancing deals as well as pose a risk to future intentions for the site. These searches are not ordered for residential conveyancing in Woodside.

I am looking into buying my first house which is in Woodside and I am already nervous. I couldn't find anything specific about Woodside. Conveyancing will be needed in due course but do you know about the Woodside area? or perhaps some other tips you can share?

Rather than looking online forget looking online you should go and have a look at Woodside. In the meantime here are some basic statistics that we found