We have used The Legal House for buying and selling and found the service to be excellent. Sarah is polite, friendly, reliable and knowledgeable. She made the process as smooth as possible. Perhaps most impressive is her responsiveness. Sarah regularly sends emails over the evening and weekends, enabling decisions to be made quickly and ensuring no delays. We would urge anyone in need of a conveyancer to employ her.
Conveyancing Fees
Below are some examples of typical fees for sales and purchases charged by The Legal House.
We pride ourselves on being as transparent as possible so you do not ever end up with any unexpected charges. However, when looking at the examples please be aware that there are lots of variables with conveyancing, such as First Time Buyers with ISAs, New Builds, shared ownership schemes, unregistered properties, purchases at auction, leasehold properties, these transactions will incur higher fees because of the extra work involved.
Some of the costs in the examples may not be applicable, for example you may not need certain searches or bank fees, depending on your circumstances. The costs of property searches and the ones you require will also differ depending on the property location when you are purchasing. The amount we need to spend on office copies at The Land Registry may increase when you are selling, because your title contains lots of copy documents.
The fee examples can be used as a useful guideline, for a quote tailored to you, please contact us with details of the property address, price and whether it is a freehold or leasehold property, and provide details of any other special circumstances to enable us to quote you accurately.
If you wish to calculate your stamp duty payable when purchasing a property, please go to www.tax.service.gov.uk/calculate-stamp-duty-land-tax/#/intro
If you wish to calculate the Land Registry fee payable when purchasing a property please landregistry.data.gov.uk/fees-calculator.html
Example 1
Freehold sale at a sale price of £200,000
Legal fee
£600.00 plus VAT
Disbursements
Land Registry office copies £7.00 each
Professional Charges
Bank transfer fee £35.00 plus VAT
Client Identity Verification per person £20.00 plus VAT
TOTAL £662.00
Example 2
Freehold Purchase at a price of £295,000.
Legal Fee
£850.00 plus VAT
Professional Charges
Bank Transfer fee £35.00 plus VAT
Stamp Duty Tax return £60.00 plus VAT
Client ID verification per person £20.00 plus VAT
Disbursements
Bankruptcy search per person £6.00
Land Registry Priority search £7.00
Personal local and water and official water & drainage search £140.00 (depending on location)
Stamp Duty £4750.00 (assumes you are not a first time buyer or this is an additional property)
Land Registry Fee £150.00
TOTAL £6,018.00
*These are examples of fees only and may be affected by many factors, for example if the property is leasehold or unregistered land, or if you are first time buyer or buying an additional property. Please contact us for a bespoke quote.
This is the best conveyancing service we have ever received and over a lifetime of moving house (21 in total). They do everything they promise with speed and efficiency.
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