It has come to my attention via my estate agent that my Crystal Palace solicitor is not on the bank Conveyancing panel. What can I do to be sure that this is correct?
Your first step should be to call your Crystal Palace conveyancer. It is reasonable to expect your lawyer to advise you what has happened. Where they are not on the panel they may recommend you to a Crystal Palace conveyancing practice that is on the conveyancing panel for your mortgage company.
Would the conveyancing lawyers identified through your search tool execute auction conveyancing in Crystal Palace?
We know of a few niche practitioners we can put you in touch with those specialising in auction conveyancing. Crystal Palace is just one of hundreds of areas of in which our lawyers have a presence.
We wanted to use a property lawyer in Crystal Palace for our house move. Our broker has since notified us that our bank Halifax won't deal with them. Surely this is unduly restrictive?
Mortgage Companies tend to imposes restrictions either the category or the volume of conveyancing firms on their panel. A common example of such criteria being that a firm must have two or more partners. In addition to restricting the type of firm, a few lenders have limited the amount of solicitor practices they use to represent them. You should note that Halifax have no responsibility for the quality of advice provided by any member of Halifax Conveyancer Panel. Mortgage fraud was a key driver in the rationalisation of solicitor panels since 2008 even though there remains differing views concerning the level of solicitor involvement in some of that fraud. Data from the Land Registry indicate that plenty of law firms, including some in or near Crystal Palace only perform a couple conveyances a year.
Are there restrictive covenants that are commonly identified as part of conveyancing in Crystal Palace?
Covenants that are restrictive in nature can be picked up when reviewing land registry title as part of the process of conveyancing in Crystal Palace. An 1874 stipulation that was seen was ‘The houses to be erected on the estate are each to be of a uniform elevation in accordance with the drawings to be prepared or approved by the vendor’s surveyor…’
Hoping to buy a property located in Crystal Palace and I am already nervous. I couldn't find anything specific about Crystal Palace. Conveyancing will be needed in due course but do you know about the Crystal Palace area? or perhaps some other tips you can share?
Rather than looking online forget looking online you should go and have a look at Crystal Palace. In the meantime here are some basic statistics that we found