We see that you have a search directory listing firms on the Kent Reliance conveyancing panel. Do firms pay you a commission if I instruct them for our conveyancing in Durham?
We are a listing service only for law firms wishing to communicate if they are on the Kent Reliance conveyancing panel or other lender panels. We do not charge referral fees to any conveyancer that you subsequently appoint for your conveyancing in Durham.
What is the best way to discover of the solicitor carrying out my conveyancing in Durham is on the mortgage lender’sapproved panel? I am looking to avoid the situation of having one lawyer for me and one for Chelsea Building Society thus spending £175.00 in further legal costs.
You should make the most of the find a lender approved solicitor tool on this web page. Pick the lender and type ‘Durham’ or your preferred area and you will be presented with numerous conveyancers located in Durham or nearest you.
My wife and I are buying a apartment in Durham. It might be a silly question but how we can trust a lawyer? On completion day we have to send funds into their account. What is the protection we have from them run away with our monies?
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 happen to be the single beneficiary of my late father’s will with all property in now in my sole name, including the my former home in Durham. Conveyancing formalities meant that the Land Registry date was in December. I want to move. I do know about the Mortgage Lenders 6 month 'rule', which means that my proprietorship could be considered the same way as if I'd bought the property in December. Will no one buy the property for half a year?
The CML handbook mandates 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 impacted by that. How sensible a view lenders take of it, depend on the bank as this provision is chiefly there to pick up on the purchase and immediately sell or the wholesaling and assigning of property.
I am due to exchange contracts on my house. I had a double glazing fitted in January 2010, but did not receive a FENSA certificate or Building Regulation Certificate. My purchaser’s lender, UBS are being a right pain. The Durham solicitor who is on the UBS conveyancing panel is happy to accept ‘lack of building regulation’ insurance but UBS are requiring a building regulation certificate. Why do UBS have a conveyancing panel if they don't accept advice from them?
It is probably the case that UBS have referred the matter to their valuer. The reason why UBS may not want to accept indemnity insurance is because it does not give them any reassurance that the double glazing was correctly and safely installed. The indemnity insurance merely protects against enforcement action which is very unlikely anyway.
It has been 4 months following my purchase conveyancing in Durham took place. I have checked the Land Registry website which shows that I paid £175,000 when infact I paid £180,000. Why the discrepancy?
The price paid figure is taken from the application to register the purchase. It is the figure included in the Transfer (the legal deed which transfers the property from one person to the other) and referred to as the 'consideration' or purchase price. You can report an error in the price paid figure using the LR online form. In most cases errors result from typos so at first glance the figure. Do report it so they can double check and advise.
My husband and I have recently had an offer accepted on a house and had meeting on Monday with Leeds Building Society for the mortgage. They warned me that when it comes to selecting a solicitor that if they are not on their approved panel of conveyancing practitioners then we will incur an extra fee of about two hundred pounds. This is because they would then have to select a solicitor to act on their behalf as well as the one we choose to act on our behalf and we will be on the hook for their costs. I have asked Leeds Building Society to send me with a list so I can request quotes only from their approved lawyers but was told that I need to check with each individual lawyer to see if they are on the panel. Is there a simple way of finding out who is on a lender panel?
You should ask Leeds Building Society what their criteria for panel membership is for a solicitor.Thereafter ask the conveyancer of your choice whether they fit that criteria and have they acted on mortgages for Leeds Building Society before. If the answer to those is yes, then just double check with Leeds Building Society. Another option is to make use of our search tool and we may be able to find you a property lawyer in Durham on the approved list for Leeds Building Society.