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Conveyancing recommendations?

be96erj
be96erj Posts: 72 Forumite
in House buying, renting & selling
Hi,

I am in the process of selling and eventually buying a new house. Can anyone recommend any good and cheap conveyancing solicitors?

Thanks

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  • af2909_2
    af2909_2 Posts: 196 Forumite
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    be96erj wrote: »
    Hi,

    I am in the process of selling and eventually buying a new house. Can anyone recommend any good and cheap conveyancing solicitors?

    Thanks

    Karen Baldwin of Photiades Solicitors in St Albans

    Cheap - no (reasonable in comparison to others)
    Excellent - yes
  • chickaroonee
    chickaroonee Posts: 14,678 Forumite
    be96erj wrote: »
    Hi,

    I am in the process of selling and eventually buying a new house. Can anyone recommend any good and cheap conveyancing solicitors?

    Thanks

    Which area are you in?

    My advice would be don't go with the cheapest, go with a recommendation from someone you trust. It's the biggest purchase you're likely to make and having a good solicitor makes it so much easier, which is worth every penny you pay them.

    too many comps..not enough time!
  • G_M
    G_M Posts: 51,977 Forumite
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    online?

    Local?

    National?

    Solicitors? or Conveyancers?
  • GenD
    GenD Posts: 23 Forumite
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    If you're anywhere near Warrington I would personally recommend Barbara Barnett, the conveyancer at Albinson Napier & Co Solicitors. Reasonable price and excellent service in my opinion so far. But you would need to be reasonably near as at some point you have to go in with photo ID and proofs of address because of the money laundering regs. (I have no idea how online solicitor firms get round that bit.)
  • robatwork
    robatwork Posts: 7,268 Forumite
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    GenD wrote: »
    If you're anywhere near Warrington I would personally recommend Barbara Barnett, the conveyancer at Albinson Napier & Co Solicitors. Reasonable price and excellent service in my opinion so far. But you would need to be reasonably near as at some point you have to go in with photo ID and proofs of address because of the money laundering regs. (I have no idea how online solicitor firms get round that bit.)

    You send it to them and they send it back. Post does get there next day in general!
  • ajayre
    ajayre Posts: 58 Forumite
    GenD wrote: »
    I have no idea how online solicitor firms get round that bit.

    Post Office certified copies for us.

    Andy
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