Can you explain why leasehold purchase conveyancing in East Sussex costs more?
East Sussex leasehold properties involve far more paperwork than a freehold purchase, and therefore takes more time to examine and advise upon.Conveyancing will involve the lease having to be checked which is usually a lengthy document, queries raised to ensure that the covenants and conditions have been observed. If it is a flat there will be a management company in existence and the accounts of this will need to be checked and enquiries raised to ensure it is operating efficiently and that all monies due have been paid by the Seller to the company and if not ensuring that money is paid up to date or the appropriate undertakings obtained.
My colleague recommended that if I am buying in East Sussex I should ask my conveyancer to perform a Neighbourhood, Planning and Local Amenity Search. What does it cover?
A search of this type is sometimes quoted for as part of the standard East Sussex conveyancing searches. It is a large document of about 40 pages, listing and setting out important information about East Sussex around the property and the people living there. It incorporates an Aerial Photograph, Planning Applications, Land Use, Mobile Phone Masts, Rights of Way, the East Sussex Housing Market, Council Tax Banding, the demographics of People living in the area, the dominant type of Housing, the Average House Prices, Crime details, East Sussex Education with maps and statistics, Local Amenities and other useful information about East Sussex.
The deeds to our house are lost. The conveyancers who conducted the conveyancing in East Sussex 10 years ago no longer exist. What are my options?
Gone are the days when you need to have the physical deeds to evidence that you are the owner of your registered land or property, as the Land Registry hold details of all registered land or property electronically.
Due to the encouragement of my in-laws I had a survey completed on a property in East Sussex in advance of appointing conveyancers. I have been advised that there is a flying freehold aspect to the house. Our surveyor has said that some lenders tend refuse to give a loan on a flying freehold house.
It depends who your proposed lender is. Santander has different instructions for example to Birmingham Midshires. If you e-mail us we can check with the appropriate lender. If you lender is happy to lend one our lawyers can assist as they are used to dealing with flying freeholds in East Sussex. Conveyancing may be slightly more expensive based on your lender's requirements.
Am I best advised to go with a East Sussex conveyancing practitioner who is local to the property I am purchasing? We have a good friend who can perform the legal work but her office is 300kilometers away.
The benefit of a high street East Sussex conveyancing practice is that you can pop in to execute documents, hand in your identification documents and apply pressure on them where appropriate. They will also have local knowledge which is a benefit. That being said nothing is more important than finding someone that will pull out all the stops for you. If if people you trust used your friend and the majority were impressed that must trump using an unknown East Sussex conveyancing lawyer solely due to them being round the corner.