Recommendations for Online Conveyancing

fromtheshires

snifflette wrote: »

Recommend Birchall Blackburn

Another vote for this conveyancer. My IFA recommended them to me and couldn't sing their praises enough for a FTB like me. And before anyone says he was on commission from them he is my cousin and didn't make a penny off me apart from the mortgage referral which he was up front about and told me how much he was getting

alberty

I would max out the budget on the house, leaving almost nothing left for renovation which will have to be done as and when. Renovations costs stay the same (maybe getting cheaper with all the immigration if you know where to look) in London if you don't buy the best potential house now the market can leave you behind.

WatlingA5

G_M wrote: »

So the Estate agent is happy. Big deal. Your choice of solicitor should not be guided by whether the EA likes the firm, but whether you like the firm, and whether they will do a good job for you, not the EA.

Reviving this thread - several weeks after our move - to say that our endorsement of Simply Conveyancing stands. The estate agent, on the other hand, we would not recommend to anyone. After completion, we got a nice thankyou letter from our vendor's EA but we've never had a word from the one who happily collected several thousand pounds off us after a saga of people "out of the office", making calls as "number withheld" so you never knew they had called, and umpteen "system down" claims when they couldn't give us info.

At one point our vendor's EA was having to phone the solicitor at the bottom of the chain to find out what was going on, and told us he had got fed up with being given the runaround by our EA's office on more than one occasion.

On the other hand, Simply Conveyancing were a joy to deal with, to the extent of making a refund for a small overpayment we had not been aware of straight into our current account.

During negotiations, we had no problem contacting our named solicitor or her team; we were given notice of holidays and given alternative contacts who were equally efficient.

We've now recommended them to several people and will continue to do so.