Tag Archives: Solicitors
Financial Ombudsman?
The solicitor’s firm dealing with the conveyancing of my mortgage have to be the most inept bunch of cowboys I’ve ever come across. My mortgage offer has expired because they have taken 7 MONTHS to do whatever it is they do. Now obviously the action I would like to take would be to visit the … Continue reading
Completion – When should I leave my house?
When do I have to vacate my house? Before the date of Completion or can I wait until I see the money in my bank account? Neither solicitors or estate agents explain the house sale procedures and I’m asking question in Yahoo Answers..
What if the buyer fails to pay at Completion?
Can I continue to stay in the house? Otherwise, I will become homeless because I sold my house on no-chain basis. Buyer paying for the lost interest as a compensation is not good enough… I’m worried. My solicitors and estate agent have not been particularly helpful in the sales procedure because they didn’t explain things … Continue reading
Why do persons over age 17 have to be declared to solicitors when purchasing a house?
A few years back when I sold my house, my son who was 18 at the time, had to sign his consent to the sale. This is to prevent people selling their homes and making existing occupants homeless. I am about to purchase a new house and the solicitor’s purchase form asks for details of … Continue reading
My solicitor billed me for stamp duty and paid the land registry in error?
I bought a house in 2002 for £85k and the solicitors final conveyancing bill included £850 stamp duty. I have since found out the house WAS and still is in a stamp duty exempt area. The solicitor has paid the land registry in error and the land registry will not reimburse the money as there … Continue reading
UK only – what is the true cost of selling and buying a house?
We are considering moving house soon. Aside from the selling price we get for our current house and the cost of the new house, what are the realistic costs involved in a move like this? (I am thinking solicitors, stamp duty etc) Has anyone done this recently and could they give me a rough idea … Continue reading
Divorce and selling joint house, question about profit?
Me & my husband have split up, we have been married for 8 months. My husband has gone off with another woman and I have no way of contacting him (he has changed his number). I am still living in the house and have been organising the sale of it and it has just sold … Continue reading
How expensive is it to sell a house?
I know it probably costs about 1500 pounds to buy a house (survey, solicitors, arrangement fees etc) plus stamp duty if over 125,000. However, how much does it cost to sell a house.
How much do the fees cost when buying a house?
So I believe you have survey, searches, solicitors; but roughly how much is it from putting in an offer up to exchange of contracts? Basically I’m curious to know what it would cost someone to do everything then pull out just before exchange? Because, in answer to the chap with a mac & trilby, a … Continue reading
Is the property legally mine?
I purchased a family property and employed a solicitor to do the conveyancing.After doing a random title search after 5 years I find the title had not been transferred to my name from my father`s.What is my liability and also the solicitors who told me the transfer had been completed.
why does it take so long for solicitors to process the buying of a house when no one lives in that house?
I am currently moving house and the house we are moving in has no one living in it. why does it take so long?!!!
Solicitors in Cardiff (housing)?
Can anyone recomend a decent solicitors that knows their stuff about housing ( not conveyancing) …? Thankyou
Completion of a house sale?
Me and hubby accepted an offer this morning. With good solicitors, which we have, how long does the average move take. We are moving from a mortgaged property to a rented property, so we have no upward chain but our buyer has a buyer too. If that makes sense.
Major problems with house sale! Please help?
I have sold my house. Offered on the one I want. The first time buyers came back to me and got me to reduce the price (after the survey) I didn;t want to but because I want the other house did it. Now my vendors are refusing to move this week – insisting on the … Continue reading
me and my partner have bought a house and the solicitors said it would cost £100 to get figures written down?
of how much i own as i put all my savings in. and if we ever split i would get my money back first. Could i not just write up my own at home with a witness and my partner sign it. thanks