Japanese Knotweed, an Invasive Species

Japanese Knotweed was brought into the UK in Victorian times as an ornamental plant. What they didn’t know was that the plant has an invasive root system.

The Survey, an essential part of your Property Purchase

Purchasing a property is one of the largest investments that you will ever make and it is important that you have as much information about its condition.

Small Conveyancing Firm of the Year 2018

Winners of the prestigious award for Small Conveyancing Firm of the Year 2018

Gaddes Noble Property Lawyers are very proud to announce that they have won the prestigious award for Small Conveyancing Firm of the Year 2018.

The LFS Conveyancing Awards are the largest and most prestigious event in the conveyancing calendar.  At this national event, over 700 solicitors, licensed conveyancers and conveyancing professionals enjoyed an evening of entertainment, a three course gala dinner and a nervous wait with other finalists to see who would be crowned winners.

Small Conveyancing Firm of the Year 2018

The award that we have won was available to all Small Conveyancing Firms. It gave us the opportunity to enter for offering a first class service but without having the large marketing budgets of our larger rivals and to compete against each other on a level playing field.

The judging process was over five stages and comprised of:

  1. Completion of an application so that the judges could make an initial assessment.
  2. A mystery shopping exercise to obtain a conveyancing quote. This process was scored on both the quality of the phone call and the subsequent quote pack that they received.
  3. A compliance check undertaken by Legal Eye. They requested several documents and policies and a score was given to each firm.
  4. A telephone interview by one of the judges.
  5. Shopper Anonymous undertook a client survey based on a net promoter score.

Managing Director, Lee Gaddes, commented ‘to win this highly acclaimed award is an honour and a testimony to our fabulous conveyancing team.

We all enjoyed the evening with our fellow finalists in Birmingham and never expected to win. The award now takes pride of place in our reception area in our offices in Huddersfield and will be our benchmark for the years to come’.

Small Conveyancing Firm of the Year North win 2018

Gaddes Noble Shortlisted Small Conveyancer of the Year

Shortlisted for the prestigious award for Small Conveyancer of the Year 2018

Gaddes Noble Property Lawyers are very proud to announce that they have been shortlisted for the prestigious award for Small Conveyancer of the Year 2018.

The LFS Conveyancing Awards are now in their seventh year and are the biggest and most prestigious event in the conveyancing calendar.

The award that we have entered was available all Small Conveyancing Firms. It gave us the opportunity to enter for offering a first class service but without having the large marketing budgets of our larger rivals and to compete against each other on a level playing field.

We have been part of a five-stage judging process, comprising of:

  1. Completion of an application so that the judges could make an initial assessment.
  2. A mystery shopping exercise to obtain a conveyancing quote. This process was scored on both the quality of the phone call and the subsequent quote pack that they received.
  3. A compliance check undertaken by Legal Eye. They requested several documents and policies and a score was given to each firm.
  4. A telephone interview by one of the judges
  5. Shopper Anonymous undertook a client survey based on a net promoter score

Managing Director, Lee Gaddes, commented ‘to be shortlisted for this highly acclaimed award is an honour and a testimony to our fabulous conveyancing team.  We are all now looking forward to attending the awards dinner later this year in Birmingham’.

Buying or Selling a Property at Auction

Buying or Selling a Property at Auction

Property Auctions give buyers and sellers a different way to buy or sell a property.  There are two methods available and here we discuss both, with our comments on the legal side and the legal implications of each method.

The Modern Method/Online Auction

This is a popular way of selling a property and is often termed as the ‘Modern Method of Auction’.

This is conditional when an offer or winning bid has been accepted.  A buyer pays a fee of usually 3.5% or £5000 to secure the property and then the buyer has 28 days to exchange contracts and often a further 28 days to legally complete.

Traditional Method

This is also a popular method of selling a property and is often termed as a ‘Traditional Auction’.

This is unconditional so when the gavel goes down, contracts are exchanged at the auction and in the contract, there is a legally binding completion date, usually 28 days later.

However, we have seen contracts exchanged unconditionally at auction with a completion date only 14 days later, this is often when the seller is a mortgagee in possession.

Selling a Property at Auction

We prepare the auction pack for both methods of auction.

Our work on your behalf work does not alter whichever method you choose.

We ask you to fill in a Fittings and Contents Form and a Property Information Form, we also ask you for any guarantees/warranties and any other documents that you have regarding the property.

For registered land we download your title deeds from Land Registry and prepare the contract for sale.

In an auction pack the seller provides the searches so we also ask you for search fees so that we can obtain searches in advance on your behalf.

Once we have prepared the auction pack we usually upload the pack electronically through your providers portal together with providing all parties (buyer’s solicitor, agent and client) copies by email.

Our pre-auction service does not stop there.

We are available by telephone and email to answer any questions that any prospective purchaser may have and any questions that may arise from a buyer’s solicitor reviewing the auction pack.

Once the property has sold at auction we see the conveyancing through to completion.

Buying a Property at Auction

If you see a property at auction that you would like to purchase, we would happily review the auction pack documents on your behalf and have a detailed discussion by telephone appointment or face to face meeting.

We do not charge for this service on the basis that we would charge you a normal fee for your conveyancing if you are successful with your bid at auction.

Please feel free to contact us prior to choosing to sell or buy at auction.

We are familiar with both methods and we have acted for many clients with different scenarios and needs.

We have acted for clients selling and buying residential and commercial properties at auction and we have also acted for clients buying at selling land at auction.