For a more definitive price please contact us for a detailed itemised quotation. As you will appreciate each legal transaction is unique however in general our current fees fall within the following ranges, the prices shown exclude vat and disbursements.
Freehold sale £1,000 - £1,800; Leasehold sale £1,200 - £1,900; Freehold purchase £1,200 - £2,000; Leasehold purchase £1,750 - £2,200; New build purchase £1,500 - £2,000; Remortgages £700 - £1,000; Transfer of equity £700 - £1,200
Additional charges which may arise include dealing with: help to buy ISA £50 per ISA; help to buy mortgage £100.
Vat is currently set at a rate of 20%.
Typically conveyancing disbursements incurred during the sale of a property include £6 per title to obtain office copy entries from HM Land Registry. The usual disbursements incurred when purchasing a property include search fees which are currently £214.44 which includes local, drainage, environmental and flood searches and chancel indemnity insurance & an additional £5.40 where there is a mortgage; HM Land Registry search at £3 per title & a £2 per person land charges search; a land registry fee which depending on the purchase price ranges between £20 & £500 for a registered property or £40 & £1,105 for an unregistered or new build property; where a mortgage lender uses the Legal Marketing Services portal a fee of £25 plus vat is payable; where we are not familiar with the solicitors acting in the sale there is a Lawyer Checker fee payable of £18 plus vat and Stamp Duty Land Tax in accordance with prevailing government legislation. There is a charge of £37.20 for each telegraphic transfer required, this includes the bank’s charge, our admin fee and vat.
**these figures are based on properties in our local area and on values up to £1,200,000**
Elaine Townsend is our conveyancing manager. Please click on her name to take you to her profile and reviews. Our conveyancing department is supervised by our conveyancing consultant Angela Thornton . She is our supervisor for the Law Society Conveyancing Quality Scheme. Angela is a member of the Society of Licenced Conveyancers.