My fiance and I are hoping to buy a flat in Sunbury and are in fact using a Sunbury conveyancing practice. Within the past 48 hours our lawyer has forwarded the sale agreement to be signed with a detailed report with a view to exchanging next week. have this afternoon contacted us to advise us that they have now hit a problem as our Sunbury conveyancer is not on their approved list of lawyers. What do we do from here?

When purchasing a property with mortgage finance it is normal for the purchasers' solicitors to also represent the mortgage company. In order to act for a bank or building society a law firm has to be on that lender's conveyancing panel. An application has to be made by the law firm to the lender to become a member of the lender's panel and there are increasingly strict criteria which the firm has to satisfy and indeed some lenders now require their panel members to be part of the Law Society’s Conveyancing Accreditation Scheme. Your property lawyer should contact your lender and see if they can apply for membership of their conveyancing panel, but if that is not viable they will instruct their own lawyers to represent them. You don't have to instruct a firm on the lender’s conveyancing panel as you are at liberty to use your preferred Sunbury lawyers, in which case it will likely add costs, and it may delay matters as you have another set of people involved.

My friend recommended that if I am buying in Sunbury I should carry out a Neighbourhood, Planning and Local Amenity Search. What does it cover?

A search of this type is usually included in the estimate for your Sunbury conveyancing searches. It is not a small document of about 40 pages, listing and detailing significant information about Sunbury around the property and the people living there. It includes an Aerial Photograph, Planning Applications, Land Use, Mobile Phone Masts, Rights of Way, the Sunbury Housing Market, Council Tax Banding, the type of People living in the area, the dominant type of Housing, the Average Property Price, Crime details, Local Education with plans and statistics, Local Amenities and other useful data concerning Sunbury.

Yesterday I discovered that there is a flying freehold element on a house I have offered on two weeks back in what was supposed to be a simple, no chain conveyancing. Sunbury is the location of the property. Is there any advice you can give?

Flying freeholds in Sunbury are rare but are more likely to exist in relation to terraced houses. Even where you use a solicitor outside Sunbury you must be sure that your lawyer goes through the deeds diligently. Your mortgage company may require your conveyancing solicitor to take out an indemnity policy. Some of the more diligent conveyancing solicitors in Sunbury may decide 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 property.

I am looking into buying my first house which is in Sunbury and I am already nervous. I couldn't find anything specific about Sunbury. Conveyancing will be needed in due course but do you know about the Sunbury area? or perhaps some other tips you can share?

Rather than looking online forget looking online you should go and have a look at Sunbury. In the meantime here are some basic statistics that we found

Me and my husband are selling a Sunbury house we inherited some years ago in 2011. I have over ten years conveyancing know-how and, although retired, wish to do the legal work. The buyer's has informed me that their building society will not allow to do our own conveyancing as they require the funds to be transferred to a solicitor's bank account.

Mortgage requirements to from all CML members state that If the seller does not have legal representation the buyer’s lawyers should check whether the bank needs to be informed so that a decision can be made as to whether or not they are willing to proceed.