We hope to to purchase with Loughborough BS. We have called around locally yet am unable to find a Stockton on Tees conveyancing firm on the Loughborough BS panel. Can you help?
You should make the most of the find a lender approved solicitor tool on this site. Pick the building society and type Stockton on Tees or your preferred area and you will see numerous conveyancers based in Stockton on Tees or near you.
A friend suggested that if I am buying in Stockton on Tees I should carry out a Neighbourhood, Planning and Local Amenity Search. Can you explain what the purpose of this search is?
This is a search is usually included in the estimate for your Stockton on Tees conveyancing searches. It is not a small document of about 40 pages, listing and detailing significant information about Stockton on Tees around the property and the people living there. It includes an Aerial Photograph, Planning Applications, Land Use, Mobile Phone Masts, Rights of Way, the Stockton on Tees Housing Market, Council Tax Banding, the demographics of People living in the area, the dominant type of Housing, the Average Property Price, Crime statistics, Stockton on Tees Education with plans and statistics, Local Amenities and other useful information about Stockton on Tees.
I used Action Conveyancing several years ago for my conveyancing in Stockton on Tees. I now require my papers however the law firm has closed. What do I do?
Do contact the Solicitors Regulatory Authority (SRA) to help locate 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 Stockton on Tees 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.
I am purchasing my first flat in Stockton on Tees with a loan from Clydesdale. The sellers refused to move on the price so I negotiated five thousand pounds worth of fixtures and fittings instead. The house builders rep suggested that I not reveal to my lawyer about this deal as it will impact my mortgage with Clydesdale. Do I keep my lawyer in the dark?.
All lenders require a Disclosure of Incentives Form from the developer of any new build, converted or renovated property, It is available online from the Lenders’ Handbook page on the CML website. CML form is completed and handed to the lender's surveyor when the inspection is done.
Lenders have different policies on incentives. Some accept none at all, cash or physical, while others will accept cash incentives up to 5%.
Hard to understand why the representative of a builder would be suggesting you withold information from a solicitor when all this will be clearly visible on forms the builder has to supply to its solicitor, the buyer's solicitor and the surveyor.
We're first time buyers - agreed a price, yet the property agent has warned us that the vendor will only move forward if we appoint their preferred solicitors as they are insisting on an ‘expedited deal’. Our preferred option is to instruct a family conveyancer accustomed to conveyancing in Stockton on Tees
It is unlikely the owners are behind this. If they desire ‘a quick sale', taking such a hostile approach to a serious buyer is counter productive. Bypass the agents and go straight to the owners and explain that (a)you are keen to buy (b)you are excited to move forward, with mortgage lined up © you are unencumbered (d) you wish to move quickly (e)however you intend to instruct your preferred Stockton on Tees conveyancing lawyers - not the ones that will provide their negotiator at the agency a introducer fee or achieve conveyancing thresholds set by HQ.