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Curls2208

Hi!

Before I start I apologise in adavance. I know, I know, I know there will be a topic SOMEWHERE where i should be putting this, but this forum has so many different folders, and sub folders and is difficult to navigate. So I thought I'd just try to find the most appropriate place for it, which today  for me is right here  

So I'm looking to buy a house very soon. The catch is, I'm abroad. I will be buying the house for me, but my dad is doing the legwork and finding the property etc, as he will move in too. Anyways you don't need to know the back story, but I'll be the sole buyer, and I want to do as little to and fro from the UK as possible (im a UK tax payer and my permanent address is the UK, i just work with the military). 

Are there any good online solicitors? Ones that would do as much as they could via email and websites or on the phone. I have no idea where to begin with solicitors if I'm honest, any advice would be GREATLY appreciated. The house will be in North wales prestatyn. The less I have to go home the better, If i don't have to travel back to the UK at all (I trust my dad completely to sort this) then thats the ultimate win win. :-) 

tom9980

Most solicitors operate via email do yourself a favour and find a good local one you are likely to find a bulk process online conveyancer solicitors to be problematic in anything but a straightforward purchase/sale. 

Generally you you only need to visit them to provide ID and to sign contracts though both potentially can be done without visiting at all.

Lurkingtoposting17

I know a lot of people really slate online conveyancers who aren’t local but in my recent transaction and a friend that I referred to the firm I used (who were remote) we had far less problems and far more thorough and proactive conveyancers than the two local firms we were both having to work with from our sellers! (Maybe it’s the area I live in that’s the problem! lol) 
Anyway, I wouldn’t tar them all with the same brush. Mine wasn’t a big conveyancing factory but actually a small firm t’up North that figured out they could make good money using the online portals to provide quotes for their services to lazy millennials who hate picking up the phone or meeting people in person. I got the same person working on my case throughout and she was highly responsive on email and via phone to all queries and my friends experience was the same. Both transactions ended up being a little complicated and they were worth their weight in gold. 

If you’d like a recommendation, PM me as I don’t think we can recommend via the forum. But I think I am the exception around these parts in having a great experience with a non local conveyancer! 

davidmcn

tom9980 said:

Most solicitors operate via email do yourself a favour and find a good local one you are likely to find a bulk process online conveyancer solicitors to be problematic in anything but a straightforward purchase/sale. 

Generally you you only need to visit them to provide ID and to sign contracts though both potentially can be done without visiting at all.

Any decent solicitor shouldn't be flummoxed by having a client remote from them - thousands of overseas investors etc, and commercial work doesn't require company directors etc to pop in to sign everything. ID etc can be certified somewhere locally if necessary and sent on.

And if the OP trusts their dad to get on with things they can grant him Power of Attorney (especially if military work means being incommunicado at times).

Curls2208

Thanks for the advice guys.