The lawyer who helped my former purchase has given a fee estimate £1150 for no sale no fee conveyancing in South Yorkshire. I am hoping to sell a purpose built detached home for £225,000. Are these conveyancing fees excessive? Is it in excess of the norm for conveyancing in South Yorkshire?

The charges are a tad high. If you shop around you might trim some of the cost by as much as £125. That being said, you couldcome to regret choosing an an untested conveyancer. Don't forget to ensure that the solicitor can represent your bank. Do use our comparison tool to select a South Yorkshire conveyancing company on the banks approved list of lawyers which can often include conveyancing solicitors in South Yorkshire.

It is is a decade since I purchased my home in South Yorkshire. Conveyancing lawyers have recently been retained on the sale but I am unable to locate my deeds. Is this a major issue?

Don’t worry too much. First the deeds may be with your mortgage company or they may stored with the solicitor who acted in your purchase. Secondly in most cases the title will be registered at the land registry and you will be able to prove you own the property by your conveyancing lawyers procuring current official copies of the land registers. Most conveyancing in South Yorkshire relates to registered property but in the unlikely event that your home is unregistered it is more problematic but is resolvable.

We hope to to buy with Darlington Building Society. I went into 3 or 4 high street companies but am unable to find a South Yorkshire conveyancing firm on the Darlington Building Society panel. Can you assist?

You should take advantage of the find a lender approved solicitor tool on this web page. Please choose the building society and type South Yorkshire or your location and you will see numerous conveyancers located in South Yorkshire or by proximity to you.

I have a semi-detached Georgian property in South Yorkshire. Conveyancing solicitor represented me and Accord Mortgages Ltd. I happened to do a free search for it on the Land Registry database and I saw two entries: the first freehold, the second leasehold under the exact same property. Is it worth asking Accord Mortgages Ltd to clarify?

You should assess the Freehold register you have again and check the Charges Register for mention of a lease. The best way to be sure that you are also the registered owner of the leasehold and freehold title as well is to check (£3). It is not completely unheard of in South Yorkshire and other locations in the country and poses no real issues for owners other than when they mortgage they have to account for both freehold and leasehold interests when dealing with lenders. You can also question the situation with the conveyancing lawyer who conducted the purchase.

We expect to complete the sale of our £350,000 apartment in South Yorkshire on Friday in a week. The freeholder has quoted £336 for Landlord’s certificate, building insurance schedule and 3 years statements of service charge. Is the landlord entitled to charge such fees for a leasehold conveyance in South Yorkshire?

South Yorkshire conveyancing on leasehold flats typically necessitates fees being invoiced by landlords agents :

Answering conveyancing due diligence questions Where consent is required before sale in South Yorkshire Supplying insurance information Deeds of covenant upon sale Registering of the assignment of the change of lessee after a sale

Your solicitor will have no control over the level of the charges for this information but the average costs for the information for South Yorkshire leasehold premises is £350. For South Yorkshire conveyancing transactions it is customary for the seller to pay for these costs. The landlord or their agents are under no legal obligation to answer such questions most will be willing to do so - albeit often at exorbitant prices where the fees bear little relation to the work involved. Unfortunately there is no law that requires fixed charges for administrative tasks. Neither is there any legal time frame by which they are required to supply answers.

South Yorkshire Leasehold Conveyancing - Examples of Queries before buying

Where a South Yorkshire lease has less than 80 years it will have adverse implications on the marketability of the property. Check with your bank that they are happy with residual term of the lease. Leases with fewer than 80 years remaining means that you will most likely require a lease extension sooner rather than later and it is worth discovering how much this will be. Remember, in most cases you would be required to have been the owner of the residence for 24 months before you are eligible to extend the lease. Generally speaking the outlay for major works tend not to be included within maintenance charges, albeit that a few managing agents in South Yorkshire ask leasehold owners to pay into a sinking fund and this is used to offset against major works. Does the lease have onerous restrictions?