Whether you are buying or selling, awareness of local considerations will positively impact the likelihood of a successful sale or purchase. Our Conveyancing specialists in Sefton have close working associations with a broad range of local information sources. Issues frequently arising in the region are also taken into consideration, thanks to this local expertise.

We have assisted home movers throughout Sefton, including Conveyancing in L21, L22.

Do you know if your Sefton new home is located in or near an at risk conservation area?

Local authorities designate conservation areas to control change in locales that people would like to protect from unsympathetic development. However, sadly many are falling into a state of disrepair e.g. traffic calming and traffic management signs, seleeping policeman etc

The following conservation areas are reported as at risk:

• West Birkdale - very bad, medium vulnerability and improving.

Searches

If your are planning to purchase a property in Sefton your lawyer is required to commission Official Local Authority Searches. The Local Authority for Sefton is Sefton Council, 324- 342 Stanley Road, Bootle, Merseyside, L20 6ET. Tel: 0845 140 0845

Issues to consider when your lawyer is not on your Lender's panel

Panels of solicitors are maintained by mortgage lenders in order to undertake legal work on mortgaged properties. Lenders have also reduced the size of their panels, setting more restrictive criteria for membership. If your conveyancing solicitor is not on your preferred lender's panel, then the lender will not instruct that firm to act in connection with the mortgage. You then have a choice:

• Obtain a mortgage from a less restrictive lender
• Instruct a solicitor whom your lender accepts
• Pay the lenders costs for their solicitor in addition to your own

It is usually cheaper to have the same firm act both for you and your lender, and carry out all the conveyancing work in connection with a purchase and the mortgage.