Lawyers Fees??

slm014

Does anyone know typical lawyers fees for buying a new home? Obviously you get charge for selling you old home; aswell as buying your new one.

Anyone got any idea regarding typical fees?

Bossyboots

You need to ring around some local solicitors and get quotes. Most do fixed fee now, but not all. It can depend on whether the property is freehold or leasehold and the area involved.

micheleen

I've just paid £550 for the sale of a £120K flat, if that's any help

hopefulfooluk

I am paying around £1300 for the sale of a £92k flat and purchase of a £140k house if that's any help as a benchmark. That's before stamp duty and everything of course, the real total is around £3k plus mortgage redemption costs

GDB2222

Try here:

http://www.sjacobs.u-net.com/webdoc4.htm

DilbertJones

I'm buying a 105K house

My Solicitors fees are £700 inc vat

I am a FTB'er so no selling fees for that

shykins

at work we charge £395 for buying and £595 for buying and selling together.. no VAT as we are only a small practice

dont forget tho u will have stamp duty, land registration fees and local and land registry search fees on top of that

HTH

mparter

I'm paying just under £700 inc VAT on an £85,000 house. That includes the searches and title deed stuff (can't remember their "technical" names).

zag2me

I paid 600 quid for the solicitors fees, and another £500 for all the searches and transfer fees. This was for a first time buyer purchasing an 85k flat. No stamp duty.

GDB2222

mparter wrote:

I'm paying just under £700 inc VAT on an £85,000 house. That includes the searches and title deed stuff (can't remember their "technical" names).

Local searches can easily be £200 out of that. Total waste of money in 99% of cases. Make that 99.9%.

Jimj40

Try a DIY, if you can. It's a doddle and will only cost a couple of hundred or so (LA search fee etc) - the forms are all standard and most lawyers just use photocopied ones of, I suspect, dubious legality (from a copyright point of view) anyway!