My previous conveyancer has given a fee estimate £1150 for leasehold conveyancing in Edmonton. I am looking to sell a newly refurbished house for £150,000. Is this too much? Is it above the average fee for conveyancing in Edmonton?

The quote is slightly on the expensive side. If you shop around you could get the conveyancing a bit cheaper by say a hundred pounds. That being said, you couldlive to regret opting for an a cheaper conveyancer. If is important to check that the solicitor can represent your bank. Do use our search tool to find a Edmonton conveyancing practice on the lender’s member panel which can often include conveyancing solicitors in Edmonton.

Yesterday I discovered that there is a flying freehold element on a house I have offered on two weeks back in what should have been a straight forward, chain free conveyancing. Edmonton is where the house is located. Is there any advice you can give?

Flying freeholds in Edmonton are rare but are more likely to exist in relation to terraced houses. Even where you use a solicitor outside Edmonton you must be sure that your lawyer goes through the deeds thoroughly. Your mortgage company may require your conveyancing solicitor to take out an indemnity policy. Some of the more diligent conveyancing solicitors in Edmonton may decide that this is not enough and that the deeds be re-written to give you the most up to date legal protection. If so, the next door neighbour also had to sign up to the revised deeds.It is possible that your lender will not accept the situation so the sooner you find out the better. You should also check with your insurance broker as to whether they will insure a flying freehold premises.

My husband and I are new to the buying process - had an offer accepted, but the estate agent informed us that the owners will only go ahead if we instruct the agent's preferred solicitors as they want an ‘expedited deal’. Our preferred option is to instruct a family conveyancer with experience of conveyancing in Edmonton

We suspect that the seller is unaware of this request. Should the seller want ‘a quick sale', taking such a hostile approach to a serious buyer is counter productive. Speak to the owners direct and make sure they understand (a)you are keen to buy (b)you are ready to go, with finances in place © you have nothing to sell (d) you wish to move quickly (e)but you are going to appoint your own,trusted Edmonton conveyancing firm - not the ones that will provide the estate agent a referral fee or meet his conveyancing targets pre-set by corporate headquarters.

Can you provide any advice for leasehold conveyancing in Edmonton with the intention of expediting the sale process?

• Much of the frustration in leasehold conveyancing in Edmonton can be bypassed where you get in touch lawyers the minute you market your property and request that they start to collate the leasehold information needed by the buyers’ representatives.
If you have carried out any alterations to the premises would they have required Landlord’s consent? In particular have you laid down wooden flooring? Edmonton leases often stipulate that internal structural alterations or addition of wooden flooring calls for a licence issued by the Landlord consenting to such alterations. Should you fail to have the approvals to hand you should not communicate with the landlord without contacting your conveyancer before hand. If you hold a share in a the Management Company, you should ensure that you are holding the original share document. Organising a replacement share certificate is often a time consuming formality and frustrates many a Edmonton home move. Where a duplicate share certificate is necessary, you should approach the company director and secretary or managing agents (where relevant) for this at the earliest opportunity. The majority of freeholders or Management Companies in Edmonton charge for supplying management packs for a leasehold property. You or your lawyers should find out the fee that they propose to charge. The management pack can be applied for as soon as you have a buyer, thus reducing delays. The average time it takes to obtain the necessary information is three weeks. It is the most common reason for delay in leasehold conveyancing in Edmonton.

I have attempted and failed to negotiate with my landlord to extend my lease without success. Can the Leasehold Valuation Tribunal decide on such issues? Can you recommend a Edmonton conveyancing firm to act on my behalf?

if there is a absentee landlord or if there is disagreement about what the lease extension should cost, under the Leasehold Reform, Housing and Urban Development Act 1993 you can apply to the LVT to make a decision on the price payable.

An example of a Vesting Order and Purchase of freehold decision for a Edmonton property is Ground Floor Flat 4A Baronet Road in February 2010. Following a vesting order by Edmonton County Court on 23rd December 2008 (case number 8ED064) the Tribunal decided that the price that the Applicant for the freehold interest should pay is £8,689.00 This case affected 2 flats. The unexpired term as at the valuation date was 80.01 years.

We are about to acquiring a home in Edmonton. Could the property lawyer keep our purchase price a secret from the likes of Zoopla. How can this be achieved ?

HM Land Registry are legally required to note price paid data on a register of the title for residential properties countrywide including homes in Edmonton. The Title Register is a public document, so HMLR would be breaching their statutory obligations if they failed to grant access to the register.

You can ask HM Land Registry to withhold the price paid data yet the response will be a No.