Having sold my house in Staines last November but our buyer keeps Skype messaging every few hours to say their solicitor is waiting to hear from mine. What are the post completion sale legalities following completion?

After completion of your house sale your lawyer should send the transfer deeds and all supplemental paperwork to the purchaser's conveyancer. Where appropriate, your conveyancer should also confirm that the home loan has been repaid to the purchasers conveyancers. There is unlikely to be post completion procedures just for conveyancing in Staines.

Should commercial conveyancing searches disclose planned roadworks that could impact a commercial estate in Staines?

Many commercial conveyancing solicitors in Staines will carry out a SiteSolutions Highways report as it dramatically cuts the time that conveyancers invest in looking into accurate data on highways that impact buildings and development assets in Staines. The search result sets out definitive data on the adoption status of roads, footpaths and verges, as well as the implication of traffic schemes and the rights of way surrounding a commercial development sites in Staines.

For each commercial conveyancing transaction in Staines it is critical to investigate the adoption status of roads surrounding a site. The absence of identifying developments where adoption procedures have not been dealt with adequately can cause delays to Staines commercial conveyancing transactions as well as pose a risk to future plans for the site. These searches are not ordered for domestic conveyancing in Staines.

I used Stirling Law several years ago for my conveyancing in Staines. Now, I need my documents however the law firm has closed. 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 Staines of the conveyancing firm of solicitors you previously instructed, the name of conveyancing solicitor with whom you had dealings, and the date on which you last had dealings with the firm.

Just had an offer accepted on a new build apartment in Staines. Conveyancing is a frightening process at the best of times but I have never purchased a new build flat before. What sort of enquires would be asked in new build legal work.

Set out below are examples of a few leasehold new build enquiries that you can expect your new-build leasehold conveyancing in Staines

Please supply a car parking plan. There must be mutual enforceability of lessee’s covenants. Has the Lease plan been approved by the Land Registry and if not when will they be lodged for this purpose? Where there is an Undertaking being granted there is the risk of forfeiture of the Headlease subject to relief if one or more of the Underlessees are willing to accept the original Head Lessee’s obligations as otherwise relief will be denied to the Underlessees. The only alternatives are the Head Lessor agreeing not to forfeit the Headlease or the Head Lessee guaranteeing to the Underlessees that it will not be in breach of the Headlease. The Lease must contain a provision on behalf of the Vendor to pay the service charges in respect of unoccupied units in order to ensure that all services can be provided.

Expecting to complete next month on a basement flat in Staines. Conveyancing lawyers inform me that they report fully next week. Are there areas in the report that I should be focusing on?

The report on title for your leasehold conveyancing in Staines should include some of the following:

Does the lease require carpeting throughout thus preventing wood flooring? Whether the landlord has obligations to ensure rights of quiet enjoyment over your property and do you know what it means in practice? specifics of the parties to the lease, for instance these could be the lessee, superior lessor, landlord It needs to be made clear to you whether the lease allows you to alter or improve anything in the property- you should know whether it relates to all alterations or limited to structural alteration, and whether consent is mandated necessary

For details of the information to be contained in your report on your leasehold property in Staines please enquire of your lawyer in advance of your conveyancing in Staines.

Staines Leasehold Conveyancing - Sample of Questions you should consider before buying

Is the freehold owned jointly by the leaseholders? Does the lease have onerous restrictions? For most Staines leaseholds the outlay for major works are not wrapped into the maintenance charges, albeit that some managing agents in Staines ask leaseholders to pay into a reserve fund and this is used to offset against major works.