Do the conveyancing practitioners listed on your site handle right to buy conveyancing in Thornton Heath?

We work with numerous conveyancing specialists who can conduct right to buy conveyancing work You should e-mail the lawyers listed in order to get a costs calculation.

Despite weeks of looking the Title Certificate and documents to my house are lost. The solicitors who handled the conveyancing in Thornton Heath years ago no longer exist. What do I do?

Assuming you have a registered title the information relating to your ownership will be evidenced by the Land Registry under a Title Number. It is easy to perform a search at the Land Registry, identify your property and secure up to date copies of the property title for a small fee. Where the title is Leasehold then the Land Registry will in most cases hold a file copy of the Registered Lease and again, a copy can be retrieved for twenty pounds.

Yesterday I discovered that there is a flying freehold element on a property I put an offer in two weeks back in what should have been a straight forward, no chain conveyancing. Thornton Heath is the location of the property. Is there any guidance you can give?

Flying freeholds in Thornton Heath are unusual but are more likely to exist in relation to terraced houses. Even where you use a solicitor outside Thornton Heath you would need to get your solicitor to go through the deeds very carefully. Your lender may require your conveyancing solicitor to take out an indemnity policy. Some of the more diligent conveyancing solicitors in Thornton Heath may determine 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 residence.

Taking into account that I will soon part with hundreds of thousands of pounds on a two bedroom apartment in Thornton Heath I would like to have a conversation with the conveyancer concerning thehouse move prior to instructing the firm. Can this be arranged?

We could not agree more - we would be delighted to talk to you we do not take any clients on without you speaking to the solicitor due to be conducting your conveyancing in Thornton Heath.There is no ‘factory style conveyancing’ - every client is unique person, not a matter number. The practices that we put you in touch with believe that the fees you are calculated and presented to you for residential conveyancing in Thornton Heath should be the amount on the final invoice that you are charged.

I am on look out for some leasehold conveyancing in Thornton Heath. Before diving in I want to be sure as to the number of years remaining on the lease.

If the lease is registered - and most are in Thornton Heath - then the leasehold title will always include the short particulars of the lease, namely the date; the term; and the original parties. From a conveyancing perspective such details then enable any prospective buyer and lender to confirm that any lease they are looking at is the one relevant to that title. For any other purpose, such as confirming how long the term was granted for and calculating what is left, then the register should be sufficient on it's own.

I acquired a 2 bed flat in Thornton Heath, conveyancing having been completed 1995. Can you let me have an estimated range of the fair premium for a lease extension? Comparable flats in Thornton Heath with a long lease are worth £165,000. The average or mid-range amount of ground rent is £45 per annum. The lease comes to an end on 21st October 50

You have 50 years remaining on your lease the likely cost is going to be between £36,100 and £41,800 plus costs.

The figure that we have given is a general guide to costs for extending a lease, but we cannot give you the actual costs without more detailed investigations. Do not use the figures in a Notice of Claim or as an informal offer. There are no doubt additional issues that need to be considered and you obviously should be as accurate as possible in your negotiations. Neither should you take any other action based on this information before seeking the advice of a professional.