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Legal Fees
SkyBlue22
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My partner and I are buying his fathers house for cheaper than it has been valued. The equity extra will be the deposit.
We got through the pack from the conveyancers the other day, and the list of legal fees is ridiculous.
Can they really charge £40 for an id check (each!) on the phone when we got the fee list after they did the check (and therefore haven't agreed to it).
They also want to charge £48 pound to archive the file when it is all closed. How can they charge this?
What fees will they charge us that we legally do not have to pay?
Also, they wanted us to fill in a purchase information form, which is not in the slightest tailored to our kind of purchase, so i have no idea how to fill half of it in.
We got through the pack from the conveyancers the other day, and the list of legal fees is ridiculous.
Can they really charge £40 for an id check (each!) on the phone when we got the fee list after they did the check (and therefore haven't agreed to it).
They also want to charge £48 pound to archive the file when it is all closed. How can they charge this?
What fees will they charge us that we legally do not have to pay?
Also, they wanted us to fill in a purchase information form, which is not in the slightest tailored to our kind of purchase, so i have no idea how to fill half of it in.
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