probate property-which solicitor for conveyancing

charb56

about to sell a probate property and the probate solicitor (who we have been happy with) has passed us to his colleague to handle the conveyancing. I had previously planned to use the solicitor who did the conveyancing originally about 8 years ago when it was bought as my late relative said he was very efficient.
their quotes are similar-who is the best option?
also in greater London what is a reasonable cost for conveyancing all expenses covered?
thanks

charb56

any answers gratefully received!! what I want to know is, with a probate property is it better to have everything done in-house with the conveyancing and probate solicitors in the same building ,and does it keep costs down eg avoiding any repetition of work, or to go with someone tried and tested?

Crabapple

I doubt it would make any difference costs wise as the work doesn't duplicate, the sale process would be run separately anyhow.

Costs tend to be pitched at a similar level by firms in a particular area else they would lose loads of work.

Savvy_Sue

the only thing I'd say is that if in your relative's paperwork you can find all the documentation for the purchase of the property, it will make the job of completing the pre-contract enquiries more straightforward, and if you cannot find them, it is possible that the solicitor who did the conveyancing then then still has copies on file - no guarantee of this if it's some years ago!

But I know that we'd have struggled with the forms for my late parents' house had there not been a bundle of paperwork from the purchase - there were a few 'odd' things we'd have had no idea about.

My next choice factor would always be convenience. I know you can do it all by post and internet, but when there were a few queries about said paperwork, it was much easier to pop in and deal with them. In fact we had a last minute 'thing' which required signatures from five beneficiaries in different parts of the country, and by collecting the paperwork from the solicitor and getting it into that day's post, we had it with the Land Registry within four days.