A landlord has the right to charge a reasonable administrative fee for varying a lease along with a fee for retaining a property solicitor and even a surveyor. This could of course run into thousands of pounds. If the lease variation diminishes the value of the landlord's interest in the building t...
Not necessarily, you are welcome to come and see us if you want to, but most conveyancing transactions can be completed by phone, fax, email and post...
What is conveyancing? Conveyancing is the name given to the legal process of the transfer of ownership of property. It includes the carrying out the necessary checks and searches that ensure that the seller legally owns the property being sold and that the buyer takes the property withou...
The conveyancers at Fridays are available to speak to during normal working hours and quite often are available evenings or the weekends. The response time for returning calls in relation to messages left is currently one and a half hours....
Our conveyancing services, as property lawyers, only offer conveyancing services for residential property in England and Wales. If you have different requirements such as commercial, industrial, agricultural property please telephone our offices to discuss your requirements....
Leasehold conveyancing transactions usually involve additional investigations than freeholds including investigating the Lease, liaising with the Landlord such as serving appropriate notices on the Landlord or managing agent, obtaining up-to-date service charge and management information, obtaining ...
New Build properties involve, in many cases, adoption of highways, drains, investigation of building regulation approval, planning permissions, building warranties such as NHBC, a division of land, etc. Often, when buying off a developer direct, strict timeframes are also imposed.
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Yes. Lawyers keep the estate agent up to date with information unless you specifically confirm that you do not want them informed as to the progress of the conveyancing transaction....
No. If exchange of contracts has not taken place then unfortunately there is nothing you can do if the other party pulls out of the transaction. The only exception to this if you have entered into some sort of lockout agreement. Once contracts have been exchanged then on the basis ...
The only safe time to hand in notice or arrange for moving at the point of exchange of contracts. Until that specific stage in the conveyancing transaction, there is nothing contractually binding and either party can withdraw from the transaction. Do not make any arrangements that could ...
