I am buying a house and the solicitor has identified Chancel Repair to which the house may be liable given it’s proximity to the area of such a church. He has mentioned insurance. Is this strictly necessary for conveyancing in Horsford

Unless a prior purchase of the premises took place after 12 October 2013 you can take it that conveyancing practitioners delivering conveyancing in Horsford to remain encouraging a chancel search and or chancel repair liability policy.

I used Action Conveyancing a few years past for my conveyancing in Horsford. I now require my papers however the law firm is no longer operating. What do I do?

You should call the Solicitors Regulatory Authority (SRA) to assist in tracking down your conveyancing files. They can be contacted on please contact on 0870 606 2555. Alternatively, you should use their online form to make an enquiry. You will need to provide the SRA with as much information as possible to assist their search, including the name and address in Horsford of the conveyancing firm of solicitors you previously hired, the name of conveyancing solicitor with whom you had dealings, and the date on which you last had dealings with the firm.

The estate agent has sent us the confirmation of our purchase of a new build flat in Horsford. Conveyancing is necessary evil at the best of times but I have never purchased a new build flat before. Can you give me some examples of some of the questions asked in new build legal work.

Set out below is a sample of a few leasehold new build enquiries that you may expect your new-build leasehold conveyancing in Horsford

If there are lifts in the building, please confirm that the owners of flats on the ground and basement floors will not be required to contribute towards the cost of maintenance and renewal. Where there is an Undertaking being granted there is the risk of forfeiture of the Headlease subject to relief if one or more of the Underlessees are willing to accept the original Head Lessee’s obligations as otherwise relief will be denied to the Underlessees. The only alternatives are the Head Lessor agreeing not to forfeit the Headlease or the Head Lessee guaranteeing to the Underlessees that it will not be in breach of the Headlease. Investor purchasers must be able to freely grant unsecured tenancies at market rents without requiring any consents. Please supply a car parking plan. There must be mutual enforceability of lessee’s covenants.

How difficult is it to swap firm as I have to select a firm on the Godiva Mortgages Ltd conveyancing panel. I had appointed a family conveyancing solicitor in Horsford round the corner but the firm is not accepted by Godiva Mortgages Ltd

It would be our pleasure to help you select a conveyancing solicitor in Horsford on the Godiva Mortgages Ltd panel. Please note that the conveyancers that we list do not pay us a referral fee if you instruct them and are regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority who regulate all conveyancing solicitors in Horsford. In utilising search facility on this site, you can scrutinise fees for conveyancing solicitors in Horsford and throughout England and Wales.

I own a leasehold house in Horsford. Conveyancing and Nottingham Building Society mortgage organised. A letter has just been received from someone saying they have taken over the freehold. Attached was a demand for arrears of ground rent dating back to 1992. The conveyancing practitioner in Horsford who previously acted has now retired. Do I pay?

First contact the Land Registry to make sure that the individual claiming to own the freehold is in fact the registered owner of the freehold reversion. You do not need to instruct a Horsford conveyancing lawyer to do this as you can do this on the Land Registry website for less than a fiver. Rest assured that in any event, even if this is the rightful freeholder, under the Limitation Act 1980 the limitation period for recovery of ground rent is six years.

Horsford Leasehold Conveyancing - A selection of Queries Prior to Purchasing

It would be prudent to discover as much as you can about the company managing the building as they will either make your life much easier or much more difficult. As the proprietor of a leasehold property you are frequently in the clutches of the managing agents both financially and when it comes to every day issues such as the cleanliness of the common parts. Enquire of prospective neighbours what they think of their management. On a final note, investigate as to the dates that you are obliged pay the service charge to the relevant party and precisely how they are spending that money. Are there any major works in the planning that could increase the maintenance charges? Does the lease have in excess of 90 years remaining?