We were about to retain a conveyancing solicitor in Torfaen endorsed on your site but stumbled across alternative costs illustrations via the web seem less expensive – how come?

There are a variety of conveyancers marketing theoretically looks to be the cheapest conveyancing in Torfaen. Our advice is to think twice as to how much you respect your own move to want to be penny wise pound foolish over the standard of the conveyancing. Many of them accentuate a low quote as a headline but conceal extra fees in the small print..

It is 10 years ago since I bought my property in Torfaen. Conveyancing solicitors have now been retained on the sale but I am unable to track down the title deeds. Will this jeopardise the sale?

Don’t worry too much. Firstly the deeds may be kept by your mortgage company or they could stored with the lawyers who oversaw your purchase. Secondly the chances are that the property will be registered at the land registry and you will be able to prove you are the registered owner by your conveyancing lawyers acquiring up to date copy of the land registers. Almost all conveyancing in Torfaen involves registered property but in the rare situation where your property is not registered it is more tricky but is resolvable.

My company is looking to take over a lease of an office on a shopping parade. Can you recommend solicitors offering competitive costs for commercial conveyancing in Torfaen for below £2000?

We are happy to recommend firms who host a wealth of experience of commercial conveyancing in Torfaen, including the sale and acquisition of businesses as well as simply property. Whether you are hoping to buy or dispose of a shop, pub, restaurant, office, retail unit or a whole business we will find you the right firm. As for the costs this will depend on the structure and terms of the deal. Please provide us with your details or call so as to enable us to provide you with a fixed commercial conveyancing calculation.

My husband and I are novice buyers - had an offer accepted, yet the agent informed us that the vendor will only move forward if we appoint their recommended lawyers as they are insisting on an ‘expedited deal’. Our preferred option is to instruct a high street solicitor accustomed to conveyancing in Torfaen

We suspect that the owner is not behind this demand. If they require ‘a quick sale', taking such a hostile approach to a genuine purchaser is likely to cause more damage than good. Speak to the owners direct and explain that (a)you are serious purchasers (b)you are ready to progress, with finances arranged © you do not need to sell (d) you wish to move quickly (e)but you are going to instruct your own,trusted Torfaen conveyancing firm - not the ones that will provide their estate agent a introducer fee or meet his conveyancing figures pre-set by senior management.

I am employed by a reputable estate agency in Torfaen where we have witnessed a few leasehold sales jeopardised due to short leases. I have been given contradictory information from local Torfaen conveyancing firms. Please can you shed some light as to whether the owner of a flat can instigate the lease extension formalities for the buyer?

Provided that the seller has been the owner for at least 2 years it is possible, to serve a Section 42 notice to kick-start the lease extension process and assign the benefit of the notice to the purchaser. The benefit of this is that the buyer need not have to wait 2 years to extend their lease. Both sets of lawyers will agree to form of assignment. The assignment needs to be completed before, or at the same time as completion of the disposal of the property.

An alternative approach is to extend the lease informally by agreement with the landlord either before or after the sale. If you are informally negotiating there are no rules and so you cannot insist on the landlord agreeing to grant an extension or transferring the benefit of an agreement to the buyer.

Torfaen Conveyancing for Leasehold Flats - A selection of Questions you should consider before Purchasing

The answer will be helpful as a) areas can cause problems for the building as the common areas may begin to deteriorate where maintenance remain unpaid b) if the leaseholders have an issue with the managing agents you will wish to have complete disclosure Does the lease have in excess of 85 years remaining? The prefered form of lease structure is where the freehold reversion is in the ownership of the leaseholders. In this scenario the lessees benefit from being in charge if their destiny and notwithstanding that a managing agent is usually employed where it is larger than a house conversion, the managing agent retained by the leaseholders.