Conveyance advice please

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I have received a quote from a local solicitors. for a new build 135k 2bed apartment on shared ownership.

Legal Charges on Leasehold Property £575
(including acting for your Mortgage Lender)

Total inc VAT £675 approx

Disbursements:

Local Authority Search Fee £100
Environmental Search Fee inc VAT £39
Drainage Search inc VAT £49.35 (optional)
Chancel Repair Search £11.75
Bankruptcy Search £2.00
Land Registry Search £6
Land Transaction Form inc VAT £58.75
Leasehold Report £58.75
Bank Transfer fee inc VAT £35.25
Land Registration Fee £150
Stamp Duty £1350

Total Disbursements £1860.85

Total £2535

Can anybody please advise..

1) Is this a fair price (considering its leasehold)
2) Can I instruct them NOT to carry out things such as Environmental Search, Drainage Search seeing as it’s a brand new apartment?
3) Im a little confused, because half of these things were not on another quote I received (the things with an *). Is this because they are built into other fees usually? Or because they are optional / things that not every company does?

Thanks

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Oops.. put it in the wrong place.

Can a mod please move to House Buying, Renting, Selling & Property Prices!

Thanks