Does a directory service exist listing Nottingham panel solicitors in Wide Open on the UK Finance Lenders’ Handbook Website?

Unfortunately not yet. There is no such facility on the Council of Mortgage Lenders or Building Society Association sites. A small selection of lenders make their panel listings visible over the internet. Where you are looking for a Wide Open conveyancing practitioner on the Nottingham please use our tool.

I recently had an offer accepted on a house in Wide Open. My mortgage broker suggested a conveyancer. I paid an advanced payment of £225. A couple of days later, the conveyancer called me to say that they were not on the Lloyds conveyancing panel. Am I right in thinking that I should be due a refund?

You should be able to recover this from the law firm if they were not on the Lloyds panel. They should have asked at the outset which lender you were obtaining a mortgage with. An important lesson to readers of this site is to check that the lawyers are on the appropriate lender panel.

I was told three weeks ago that my mortgage has been agreed to by Virgin Money. Is it usual for Virgin Money to only issue the offer once my solicitor in Wide Open is approved on their conveyancing panel? Virgin Money have asked my solicitor to see a copy of their PI Insurance.

A lender would not issue a mortgage until they have details of a lawyer on their panel. It can take a few weeks for Virgin Money to deal with your lawyer's application to be on the Virgin Money conveyancing panel. There's no guarantee that your solicitor will be accepted.

I used Stirling Law a few years past for my conveyancing in Wide Open. I now require my papers however cannot find the solicitor. What do I do?

Do contact the Solicitors Regulatory Authority (SRA) to help locate your conveyancing files. They can be contacted on please contact on 0870 606 2555. Alternatively, you should use their online form to make an enquiry. You will need to provide the SRA with as much information as possible to assist their search, including the name and address in Wide Open of the conveyancing firm of solicitors you previously retained, the name of conveyancing solicitor with whom you had dealings, and the date on which you last had dealings with the firm.

Yesterday I discovered that there is a flying freehold issue on a property I put an offer in two weeks back in what was supposed to be a quick, no chain conveyancing. Wide Open is where the house is located. Can you offer any advice?

Flying freeholds in Wide Open are not the norm but are more likely to exist in relation to terraced houses. Even where you use a solicitor outside Wide Open you would need to get your solicitor to go through the deeds thoroughly. Your lender may require your conveyancing solicitor to take out an indemnity policy. Some of the more diligent conveyancing solicitors in Wide Open may determine 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 residence.

I am a sole trader intending to take an assignment of a lease of a shop on the high street. Can you recommend conveyancers offering competitive fees for non-domestic conveyancing in Wide Open for less than 2k?

We can recommend firms who have an in-depth of experience of commercial conveyancing in Wide Open, including the sale and purchase of businesses as well as simply premises. If you are looking to buy or dispose of a shop, pub, restaurant, office, retail premises or a whole business we can put you in touch with the right solicitor. As for the charges this will depend on the structure and nuances of the proposed transaction. Please provide us with your contact information or telephone us so that we may supply you with comprehensive commercial conveyancing quote.

My fiance and I are planning to purchase a 2 room ground floor flatin Wide Open with a home loan from a mortgage company. We like our conveyancer in Wide Open yet our bank says she’s not listed on their "panel". It seems we have little choice but to instruct from the our lender panel solicitors or keep our Wide Open conveyancer and incur the extra costs for one of their panel ones to represent our lender. This seems very unfair; is there anything we can do?

Unfortunately,no. The bank mortgage issued is subject to its terms and conditions, one of which will be that lawyers will on the lender's conveyancing panel. in the past, most mortgage companies had large numbers of law firms on their panels, including most conveyancing solicitors in Wide Open : a borrower could choose one for themselves, as long as it was on the lender's panel. The lender would then simply instruct the borrower's lawyers to act for the lender, too. You can use your lender's panel lawyers or you could borrow from another lender which does not restrict your choice. A further alternative is for your solicitors to apply to be on the conveyancing panel for your mortgage company.