Costs selling @ £350k, buy @ £500,001

theartfullodger

Hi guys & thanks in advance for your comments...

If a couple were to sell @ £350k, buy @ £500,001 what might the likely, everything considered, costs be?? (No mortgages). I hacked up this (nicked ideas from various sources,, )...

- but corrections/comments/insults welcomed...

Cheers!

Lodger

PS How do you insert a spreadsheet??

PPS Yes, I know Stamp duty is lower % if below £500k....

silvercar

I moved in 2006, so my direct knowledge may be a little dated.

Wills should be £100 each roughly.

You'll be lucky to find a decent estate agent only charging 1%.

Survey seems cheap for a full structural survey.

Moving costs seem expensive, even for a full packing & moving service from a BAR member for a 4 bed house I paid only £1000 + VAT.

DPJames

If i were to find myself in the position of purchasing a half million pound house i don't suppose i'd be too worried about how much it would cost to move. But that's just me.

geoffky

we have just moved and i set aside 10k for costs,,,not enough. the painters alone have cost 2k carpets 3k and bed 2k with mattresses then there is a new leather sofas 1.6k(two rooms) new curtains blinds ect ect..i was hoping to get a dry stone wall done but will have to put more money on the table.my solicitors fees where £1700 after very drawn out legal wrangle with the land registry..