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Residential Conveyancing and Property Prices

OUR SERVICES AND TIMESCALES

SELLING

We offer a complete conveyancing service to help you through every stage of selling your home, which includes:

Working with your estate agents and buyers’ solicitors

Writing to all parties advising we are acting on your behalf

Drafting the necessary Contract papers

Establishing how much you owe on any mortgage secured upon your existing property

Dealing with your buyers’ solicitors and answering any enquiries raised

Attending on you to sign the contracts and other legal documents

Negotiating a convenient date for completion of your sale

Repaying your existing mortgages upon sale of the property and settling the estate agents fees

BUYING

Working with the estate Agent and the Sellers Solicitor

Searches carried out and enquiries raised

Draft contract received and information regarding the property checked

Receiving and checking mortgage offer is satisfactory and the conditions are met

Sending you a detailed title report ensuring you are fully aware of everything you need to know about the property you are buying

Attending on you to sign the contracts and other legal documents

Agreeing the completion date and obtaining deposit

Exchanging contracts

Requesting and obtaining mortgage funds from your lender

On completion paying balance of purchase price to seller’s solicitors and ensuring release of keys

Paying any SDLT to HM Revenue

Registration of your property with HM Land Registry

TIMESCALES

A standard transaction will take approximately 6 weeks from the time we are instructed. However, every transaction is slightly different depending upon a number of factors such as:-

The number of parties in the chain

The other parties’ circumstances

The time taken for your buyer to obtain a mortgage offer, search results and surveys.

Whether there is a management company involved

Other parties’ timescales

Occasionally we may need to increase your fixed fee – this may be due to but not limited to the following

– Septic tanks

– Private water supplies

– Deed of variations

– Complicated title matters

– Adverse possession

– Lease defects

– Retrospective consent

– Conditional exchange of contracts

– Missing documentation

– Transfer of part

PURCHASE – FREEHOLD (HOUSE)

Value	Legal Fee	VAT (currently 20%)	Total
£0-100,000	£650.00	£130.00	£780.00
£100,001 – £200,000	£750.00	£150.00	£900.00
£200,001 –£300,000	£850.00	£170.00	£1,020.00
£300,001 – £400,000	£1,050.00	£210.00	£1,260.00
£400,001 – £500,000	£1,250.00	£250.00	£1,500.00
£500,001 – £999,999	£1,500.00	£300.00	£1,800.00
£1,000,000 – ONWARDS	Please call for bespoke costing.

ADDITIONAL FEES – PURCHASE

Value	Legal Fee	VAT (currently 20%)	Total
Leasehold Flat – ADD	£150.00	£30.00	£180.00
Help To Buy ISA	£50.00	£10.00	£60.00
New Build	£180.00	£36.00	£216.00
Help To Build Equity Scheme	£150.00	£30.00	£180.00
Shared Ownership	£180.00	£36.00	£216.00
Auction Repossession	£150.00	£30.00	£180.00
Buy to Let Fee	£75.00	£15.00	£90.00
Declaration of Trust	£150.00	£30.00	£180.00
Deed of Covenant Drafting Fee	£50.00	£10.00	£60.00
Gifted Deposit	£50.00	£10.00	60.00
Leasehold Management Company (+1)	£50.00	£10.00	£60.00
Solar Panels	£50.00	£10.00	£60.00
Unregistered Deeds	£100.00	£20.00	£120.00

DISBURSEMENTS – PURCHASE

	Legal Fee	VAT (currently 20%)	Total
Telegraphic Transfer Fee	£30.00	£6.00	£36.00
Case Management Fee	£19.00	£3.80	£22.80
Search Bundle (This includes – local search, water & drainage, environmental search, chancel) Other searches are subject to the property location and requirements of lender	£200.00	£40.00	£240.00

Land Registry	£3.00 (Per Title)
Land Charges	£2.00 (Per Name)
Land Registration Fee – https://www.gov.uk/guidance/hm-land-registry-registration-services-fees	£ – Variable from HM Land Registry
Stamp Duty Land Tax – https://www.tax.service.gov.uk/calculate-stamp-duty-land-tax/#/intro	£ – Variable – In Accordance with Tax Rate
Land Transactions Tax Wales with Tax Rate – https://www.gov.wales/land-transaction-tax-calculator	£ – Variable – In Accordance with Tax Rate
Leasehold Notice Fees	£ – Variable – In Accordance with The Terms Of The Lease (May include: deed of covenant, share certificate, consent certificate, certificate of compliance)

Companies House Mortgage Registration Fee

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/register-particulars-of-a-charge-mr01

SALE – FREEHOLD (HOUSE)

Value	Legal Fee	VAT (currently 20%)	Total
£0-175,00	£470.00	£94.00	£564.00
£175.001-£250,000	£505.00	£103.00	£618.00
£250,001 –£350,000	£595.00	£119.00	£714.00
£350,001 – £500,000	£615.00	£123.00	£738.00
£500,001 – £600,000	£670.00	£134.00	£804.00
£600,001 – £700,000	£715.00	£143.00	£858.00
£700,001 – £750,000	£745.00	£149.00	£894.00
£750,001 – £800,000	£770.00	£154.00	£924.00
£800,001 – £900,000	£95.00	£159.00	£934.00
£900,001 – £999,999	£845.00	£169.00	£1014.00
£1,000,000 – ONWARDS	0.10%

ADDITIONAL FEES – SALE

	Legal Fee	VAT (currently 20%)	Total
Leasehold Flat – ADD	£150.00	£30.00	£180.00

DISBURSEMENTS – SALE

	Legal Fee	VAT (currently 20%)	Total
Telegraphic Transfer Fee	£30.00	£6.00	£36.00
Case Management Fee	£19.00	£3.80	£22.80
Index Map Search (unregistered)	£4.00	£0.00	£4.00
Land Charges (unregistered)	£2.00 (Per Name)	£0.00	£2.00
Land Charges Docs (unregistered)	£1.00 (Per Document)	£0.00	£1.00

Land Registry Office Copies	£6.00 (per title i.e title to the property and title plan
Leasehold (management pack)	£ – TBC – The fee will be collected up front and for client to make a cheque to the landlord/management company
Indemnity Policies	£ – Variable – issued from provider

PROBATE SALES – WHERE THE FIRM ARE INSTRUCTED AND DEALING WITH THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE ESTATE – THE ABOVE FEE SCALE WILL APPLY.

MORTGAGE – REMORTGAGE – FREEHOLD

Value	Legal Fee	VAT (currently 20%)	Total
Remortgage	£400.00	£80.00	£480.00
Leasehold	£595.00	£119.00	£714.00
Additional Fee for Transfer of Equity	£175.00	£35.00	£210.00

DISBURSEMENTS – REMORTGAGE

	Legal Fee	VAT (currently 20%)	Total
Telegraphic Transfer Fee	£30.00	£6.00	£36.00
Case Management Fee	£19.00	£3.80	£22.80
Land Registry	£7.00 (Per Title)	£0.00	£7.00
Land Charges	£2.00 (Per Name)	£0.00	£2.00

Search Bundle

£216.67

£43.33

£260.00

(This includes – local search, water & drainage, environmental search, chancel) Other searches are subject to the property location and requirements of lender

No Search Insurance

£ – Variable subject to policy cover and value and requirements of lender

This only applies if lender does not accept search insurance

Insolvency Insurance	£ – Variable – Subject to policy cover and value
Land Registration Fee	£ – Variable from HM land Registry – WWW.GOV.UK/GUIDANCE/HM-LAND-REGISTRY-REGISTRATION-SERVICES-FEES
Stamp Duty Land Tax	£ – Variable – In accordance with tax rate – HTTPS://WWW.TAX.SERVICE.GOV.UK/CALCULATE-STAMP-DUTY-LAND-TAX/#/INTRO
Land Transaction Tax Wales	£ – Variable – In accordance with tax rate – https://www.gov.wales/land-transaction-tax-calculator
Leasehold Notice Fees	£ – Variable in accordance with the terms of the lease (may include: deed of covenant, share certificate, consent certificate or certificate of compliance)

TRANSFER OF EQUITY– FREEHOLD

Value	Legal Fee	VAT (currently 20%)	Total
£0 – 250,00	£320.00	£64.00	£384.00
£250,001 – Above	£420.00	£84.00	£504.00
Leasehold	£495.00	£99.00	£594.00
Includes a Remortgage Add	£170.00	£34.00	£204.00

DISBURSEMENTS – TRANSFER OF EQUITY

Value	Legal Fee	VAT (currently 20%)	Total
Telegraphic Transfer Fee	£30.00	£6.00	£36.00
Case Management Fee	£19.00	£3.80	£22.80
Land Registry	£3.00 (Per Title)	£0.00	£3.00
Land Charges	£2.00 (Per Name)	£0.00	£2.00

Land Registration Fee	£ – Variable from HM land registry – WWW.GOV.UK/GUIDANCE/HM-LAND-REGISTRY-REGISTRATION-SERVICES-FEES
Stamp Duty Land Tax	£ – Where there is a transfer of equity SDLT may be payable if one party already owns another residential property, or if the amount of the mortgage debt to be taken on by either the incoming party or a remaining owner is more than £125,000.00 – https://www.tax.service.gov.uk/calculate-stamp-duty-land-tax/#/intro
Land Transaction on Tax Wales	£ – Where there is a transfer of equity SDLT may be payable if one party already owns another residential property, or if the amount of the mortgage debt to be taken on by either the incoming party or a remaining owner is more than £125,000.00 https://beta.gov.wales/land-transaction-tax-calculator
Leasehold Notice Fees	£ – Variable in accordance with the terms of the lease (may include: deed of covenant, share certificate, consent certificate or certificate of compliance)

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