Having sold my house in Nottingham last May but our buyer keeps SMS messaging daily to moan that his conveyancer needs to hear from mine. What are the post completion sale legalities now that I have sold?

After completion of your sale your lawyer is obliged to deliver the transfer deeds and all of the paperwork to the buyer’s solicitors. Where relevant, your solicitor should also evidence that the legal charge in favour of the lender has been discharged to the purchasers conveyancers. There is unlikely to be post completion formalities unique to conveyancing in Nottingham.

Is it necessary to pay for insurance to cover chancel repairs when purchasing a residence in Nottingham?

Unless a prior acquisition of the property took place after 12 October 2013 you could take it that lawyers delivering conveyancing in Nottingham to remain recommending a chancel search and or chancel repair liability insurance.

I'm purchasing my first flat in Nottingham benefiting from help to buy. The sellers would not reduce the price so I negotiated 6k of fixtures and fittings instead. The estate agent suggested that I not reveal to my solicitor about the deal as it will impact my loan with the lender. Should I keep quiet?.

All lenders require a Disclosure of Incentives Form from the developer of any new build, converted or renovated property, It is available online from the Lenders’ Handbook page on the CML website. CML form is completed and handed to the lender's surveyor when the inspection is done.

Lenders have different policies on incentives. Some accept none at all, cash or physical, while others will accept cash incentives up to 5%.

Hard to understand why the representative of a builder would be suggesting you withold information from a solicitor when all this will be clearly visible on forms the builder has to supply to its solicitor, the buyer's solicitor and the surveyor.

I am looking for a ground for flat up to £245,000 and found one near me in Nottingham I like with open areas and railway links in the vicinity, however it's only got 61 years unexpired on the lease. There is not much else in Nottingham in this price bracket, so just wondered if I would be making a mistake acquiring a lease with such few years left?

Should you need a mortgage the remaining unexpired lease term will likely be problematic. Discount the offer by the expected lease extension will cost if not already taken into account. If the current proprietor has owned the property for a minimum of twenty four months you can ask them to start the process of the extension and pass it to you. You can add 90 years to the existing lease term and have £0 ground rent by law. You should speak to your conveyancing solicitor regarding this matter.

We are about to purchasing a apartment in Nottingham. Conveyancing is not yet done but we would like have our purchase price a secret from the likes of Zoopla. Is this possible and how?

HM Land Registry as a matter of law obliged to disclose price paid data on a register of the title for domestic properties nationwide which includes premises in Nottingham. The Title Register is an open document, so HMLR would be breaking the law excluded certain homes such as your one in Nottingham.

In essence you can make a request of the Land Registry to hide the price paid data however the response would be in the negative.