We are a couple about to exchange contracts for a garden flat in Harrow Weald. We have hit a problem. Our mortgage offer with Barclays expires on 19/3/2026 but the vendors are suggesting a completion date of 23/3/2026. Can one prolong the loan expiry date?
The best person to address this concern is your solicitors who should calculate whether they corresponding with the lender, vendor’s conveyancers, estate agents or possibly all three taking into account what has happend in your conveyancing to date.
Having sold my house in Harrow Weald last July yet the purchaser is texting every few hours complaining that her conveyancer needs to hear from mylawyer. What should my lawyer have done now that I have sold?
Following your house sale your solicitor is committed to deliver the transfer deeds and all supplemental paperwork to the purchaser's lawyers. If applicable, your solicitor should also evidence that the mortgage has been paid off to the purchasers solicitors. There are no post completion requirements specific conveyancing in Harrow Weald.
My Solicitor in Harrow Weald is not on the Barnsley Building Society Conveyancing Panel. Is it possible for me to retain my family solicitor notwithstanding that they are excluded from the Barnsley Building Society panel?
The limited options available to you here include:
- Complete the purchase with your preferred Harrow Weald lawyers but Barnsley Building Society will need to use a solicitor on their panel. This will inevitably rack up the overall legal fees as well as cause frustration.
- Get a new lawyer to act in the purchase, obviously checking they are Persuade your conveyancer to do everything within their powers to join the Barnsley Building Society conveyancing panel
Forgive me if this question is silly but I am unseasoned as a 1st time buyer of a ground floor flat in Harrow Weald. Do I receive the keys to the premises on completion from my lawyer? If so, I will instruct a local conveyancing solicitor in Harrow Weald?
On the day of completion you do not need to attend the conveyancers office in Harrow Weald. Conveyancing lawyers for you will electronically transfer the completion advance to the vendor’s solicitors, and shortly after the monies have arrived, you should be invited to receive the keys from the property Agents and start moving into the property. Usually this occurs early afternoon.
My wife and I purchasing a 3 bedroom semi in Harrow Weald. The intention is to carry out a loft conversion at the house.Will the conveyancing process involve enquiries to determine if these works were previously refused?
Your solicitor will check the registered title as conveyancing in Harrow Weald will occasionally identify restrictions in the title deeds which prevent certain changes or necessitated the permission of a 3rd party. Certain extensions need local authority planning consent and approval in compliance with building regulations. Some areas are designated conservation areas and special planning restrictions apply which often prevent or impact extensions. It would be sensible to check these issues with a surveyor ahead of any purchase.
Is it the case that all Harrow Weald solicitor practices on the Principality conveyancing panel are regulated by the SRA?
As a firm of solicitors, in order to be on the Principality conveyancing panel they would need to be regulated by the Solicitors Regulatory Authority. Some mortgage companies do permit licenced conveyancers on their panel and in that case the firms would be regulated by the CLC.
I have been told that property searches are a common cause of delay in Harrow Weald conveyancing transactions. Is there any truth in this?
The Council of Property Search Organisations (CoPSO) published determinations of a review by MoveWithUs that conveyancing searches do not feature within the common causes of delays in the conveyancing process. Searches are unlikely to feature in any holding up conveyancing in Harrow Weald.