Transparency in Price & Service > Domestic Conveyancing
Moving house, selling your home and buying a new one, can be not just a worrying time, but can land the unwary with grave problems and financial burdens. To help eases this, we have published the following comprehensive guide to provide transparency in price and service.
Deepa, Clare an Sarah are supported by secretaries Jenny Southall and Legal assistants Ameila Church and Aneeqa Ghaffar. Please see the profiles of Deepa, Clare and Sarah on ‘our people’ section of the website or on the links above.
Services included
The services that we offer are dealt with within our estimate of costs, includes dealing with the transaction, liaising with the other party’s solicitors, dealing with exchange, completion and communicating with you and the other parties throughout. If we are required to undertake any additional work such as preparing declarations of trusts, statutory declarations, deeds of easement etc we will inform you as soon as possible. Please see a Tariff of Additional charges below.
Please note that all of our fees and disbursements in relation to the services we provide are subject to VAT at a rate of 20%.
Key stages and typical timescales
On average we advise that matters can take between 8 to 12 weeks, of course we will keep you updated every step of the way. Please see the step by step guides above for further details of the key stages of the process of buying and/or selling your property
Additional Tariff of Charges
This guide has been prepared to explain the additional services that may fall outside work associated with a routine sale or purchase of a property. These additional services will be charged for at the following rates where required:-
- Additional parties. If we are required to write to multiple clients or solicitors individually or correspond with third parties, we reserve the right to charge an additional fee of £125 plus VAT.
- Declaration of Trust. If you require us to prepare a Declaration of Trust to record unequal contributions made in respect of the purchase price of a property, we will charge additional fees up to £200 plus VAT.
- Defective Title Insurance. If a title defect has been identified against which an insurance policy needs to be taken out, we will charge an additional fee of £50 plus VAT for arranging the policy.
- Deed of Covenant. Where a property is leasehold and we are required to prepare a Deed of Covenant with the Management Company or Landlord, we will charge a fee of £100 plus VAT.
- Handling a Restriction. If there is a title restriction registered against your property or against the property you are buying we may charge an additional fee of £75 plus VAT.
- Help to Buy Repayment of Loan. If the property you are selling is subject to an additional loan in favour of Homes and Communities Agency, we reserve the right to charge additional fees of up to £100 plus VAT.
- Help to Buy ISA. Where we will deal with cashing in an ISA to assist you in your purchase we will charge the sum of £50 plus VAT.
- Help to Buy Purchase Assistance. If you have applied for assistance under the Government’s Help to Buy Scheme and will obtain a Second Charge, we will charge additional fees of up to £250 plus VAT.
- Multiple Titles. If you are selling or buying a property which has more than one registered or unregistered title, we reserve the right to charge an additional fee of up to £100 plus VAT.
- Retrospective Consent. If in the course of selling or re-mortgaging your property it becomes necessary to obtain retrospective consent for additions or alterations, we may charge additional fees of up to £100 plus VAT.
- Solar Panel Leases. If the property you are buying or selling is subject to the terms of a Solar Panel Lease, we will charge an additional fee of £150 plus VAT.
- Redemption of Mortgages. If you have more than one loan on the house you are selling we may charge additional fees of £50 plus VAT for dealing with each additional loan.
- Statutory Declaration. If during the course of your sale or purchase transaction it is necessary for us to prepare a Statutory Declaration, we reserve the right to charge additional fees of up to £200 plus VAT.
- Unregistered titles. If the property you are buying or selling has not been registered with the Land Registry, we reserve the right to charge additional fees of up to £100 plus VAT depending upon the additional work involved.
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