After scouring online forums for a recommended solicitor in Rush Green, most advise that I should instruct a CQS kitemarked solicitor. What is CQS?
Rush Green Conveyancing Quality Scheme practices have achieved accreditation under the Law Society's Scheme (CQS) The Law Society established CQS to promote high standards in the in the legal transfer of properties. CQS enables buyers and sellers to recognise solicitor firms who provide a quality residential conveyancing. Rush Green is one of the many areas in England and Wales in which accredited firms have a presence. The scheme requires practices to undergo a strict assessment, compulsory training, self-certification, spot checks and yearly assessments in order to maintain CQS status. It is available to solicitors and not licensed conveyancers and has the support of the Building Societies Association.
This question may be naive but I am wet behind the ears as a 1st time purchaser of a ground floor flat in Rush Green.Do I pick up the keys to the premises on completion from my conveyancer? If so, I will use a local conveyancing solicitor in Rush Green?
On the day of completion you do not need to go to the conveyancers office in Rush Green. Conveyancing lawyers for you will arrange to send the completion advance to the vendor’s lawyers, and shortly after the monies have arrived, you should be invited to collect the keys from the property Agents and start moving into the property. This tends to happen between 1 and 3pm.
Am I better off to instruct a Rush Green conveyancing lawyer based in the vicinity that I am hoping to buy? I have an old university friend who can perform the legal formalities however his firm is located a couple of hundredkilometers drive away.
The benefit of a local Rush Green conveyancing practice is that you can drop in to sign documents, deliver your identification documents and pester them where appropriate. They will also have local knowledge which is a bonus. That being said nothing is more important than finding someone that will pull out all the stops for you. If you know people who used your friend and on the whole were happy that must surpass using an unfamiliar Rush Green conveyancing solicitor solely due to them being Rush Green based.