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Countrywide Property Lawyers - are they as bad as I've read?
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charliechin wrote: »It sounds like this company is a problem - as a clincher, how do the following costs weigh up, does anything here stand out as totally unreasonable?
Standard Costs
Legal fees for conveyance - £549 + £98 VAT
Preparation of Stamp Duty Land Transaction Return - £85 + £15 VAT
Fees in respect of carrying out money laundering check - £30 + £5 VAT
Fee to maintain archive of documents - £25 + £4 VAT
Total = £811
Additional Costs
Legal fees for acting as your lender - £125 + £22 VAT
Charge for each CHAPS payment - £40 + £7 VAT
Local Authority & Home Check Search and Locality Search charges - £150
HM Land Registry Charges - £150
Total = £494
Grand Total = £1305
Is that what they charge? If so, that's not even competitive where I work. In Hull you would be looking at it costing you circa 800/9000
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