The Waltham Abbey conveyancing firm that just started acting on my house acquisition in Waltham Abbey have suddenly closed. I chose them because I needed a solicitor on the UBS conveyancing panel and my family Waltham Abbey lawyer was not. I gave my credit card details for them to take £195 for searches. What should be my next steps?

If you have an estate agent involved then inform them immediately so that they can let the sellers know that there may be a slight delay due to the problems encountered. Hopefully they will be sympathetic and urge their lawyer to send a new set of papers to your new solicitors. You should appoint new lawyers that are on the UBS conveyancing panel and notify the lender. If you have paid over any money, it will hopefully be held by the SRA as money in an intervened firm's bank accounts is transferred to the SRA. Then, the SRA or the intervention agent looks at the intervened firm's accounts to work out who the money belongs to. To claim your money you will need to contact the SRA. If the SRA cannot return money you are owed from the firm's bank accounts, or if they can only return part of the money, you can apply to the Compensation Fund for a grant. Your new solicitors should be in a position to help.

The estate agent has sent us the confirmation of our purchase of a new build apartment in Waltham Abbey. 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 are examples of a selection of leasehold new build questions that you may expect your new-build leasehold conveyancing in Waltham Abbey

Will control of the Management Company (if any) be handed over to purchasers on completion of the last sale or earlier? Please confirm the Lease plans are surveyor prepared. Will the freehold then be transferred for a nominal consideration (not exceeding £100) to the Management Company? The Vendor must covenant to keep unsold units in good repair until long leases are granted therefore. Investor purchasers must be able to freely grant unsecured tenancies at market rents without requiring any consents.

Is it possible to switch solicitor as I have to retain one who is on the Platform Home Loans Ltd conveyancing list. I had appointed a local conveyancing solicitor in Waltham Abbey five minutes from me but he is not approved by Platform Home Loans Ltd

It would be our pleasure to assist you select a conveyancing solicitor in Waltham Abbey on the Platform Home Loans Ltd panel. Please note that the solicitors that we list do not pay us a referral fee if you instruct them and are registered with the SRA who oversee all conveyancing solicitors in Waltham Abbey. In making use of search facility on this page, you can compare and instruct different solicitors and conveyancers both nationally and in Waltham Abbey.

We are one month into a freehold purchase having been recommend to conveyancers by the local agent to execute conveyancing in Waltham Abbey. I am not happy. Can you help me find new lawyers?

A conveyancer would need to be really bad in order to consider diss instructing them. Has the mortgage been sent? If so you must inform them of the new contact details and get the mortgage documents are issued to the new lawyers. Your new conveyancer should be on the banks panel to avoid added charges and complications. So that should be your first question of the new conveyancers. The search tool will assist you in finding a bank approved conveyancer for your conveyancing in Waltham Abbey

How easy is it to change a solicitor as I need to find a Waltham Abbey based conveyancer who is on the lender conveyancing panel. How simple is it to change conveyancer?

If you haven't yet appointed a conveyancer to commence the conveyancing and have just received an estimate as to costs, you're perfectly free to choose a different solicitor to carry out your work for you. The best way is to get recommendations from friends or family who have actually used the solicitor or conveyancer in Waltham Abbey that you're thinking of instructing.