I have been recommended a conveyancing solicitor in Great Stanmore. I need to find out if they are on the Bank of Scotland conveyancing panel. Can you advise?

You should call the solicitor and enquire whether they are on the lender panel. Alternatively you can get in touch with Bank of Scotland who may be able to assist.

A friend advised me that where I am buying in Great Stanmore I should carry out a Neighbourhood, Planning and Local Amenity Search. What does it cover?

This is a search is occasionally included in the estimate for your Great Stanmore conveyancing searches. It is not a small document of about 40 pages, listing and setting out important information about Great Stanmore around the property and the people living there. It incorporates an Aerial Photograph, Planning Applications, Land Use, Mobile Phone Masts, Rights of Way, the Great Stanmore Housing Market, Council Tax Banding, the type of People living in the area, the dominant type of Housing, the Average House Prices, Crime details, Great Stanmore Education with maps and statistics, Local Amenities and other useful data concerning Great Stanmore.

Is it simple use the search app to choose a conveyancing practitioner in Great Stanmore on the authorised to act for my mortgage?

First choose a bank such as Lloyds TSB Bank, Barnsley Building Society or Nottingham Building Society then type in your location such as Great Stanmore. Conveyancing firms in Great Stanmore and further afield will then be shown.

In my capacity as executor for the estate of my grandfather I am disposing of a property in Swansea but I am based in Great Stanmore. My conveyancer (approximately 260 kilometers awayhas requested that I execute a statutory declaration before the transaction finalising. Could you suggest a conveyancing practitioner in Great Stanmore who can witness and place their company stamp on the document?

strictly speaking you are not likely to be required to have the documents attested by a conveyancing solicitor. Normally any notary public or solicitor will be fine regardless of whether they are located in Great Stanmore

Estate agents have just been given the go-ahead to market my basement apartment in Great Stanmore. Conveyancing has not commenced, however I have just received a half-yearly maintenance charge demand – should I leave it to the buyer to sort out?

Your conveyancing lawyer is likely to suggest that you should clear the service charge as you normally would as all rents and service payments will be allotted as part of the financial calculations for completion monies, so you will be reimbursed by the buyer for the period running from after the completion date to the next payment date. Most management companies will not acknowledge the buyer until the service charges have been paid and are up to date, so it is important for both buyer and seller for the seller to show that they are up to date. Having a clear account will assist your cause and will leave you no worse off financially.

Following years of negotiations we are unable to agree with our landlord on how much the lease extension should cost for our flat in Great Stanmore. Can we issue an application to the Residential Property Tribunal Service?

Where there is a absentee freeholder or where there is disagreement about the premium for a lease extension, under the relevant statutes it is possible to make an application to the LVT to decide the price payable.

An example of a Lease Extension matter before the tribunal for a Great Stanmore property is 27B Hillside in February 2010. the resulting premium, all other aspects of the valuation having been agreed between the parties was set at £8,250 This case was in relation to 1 flat. The unexpired term was 70.25 years.