Solicitor fees for conveyancing, reasonable?

[Fordian]

For a friend 🤭 but first time buyer, mid ‘terrace’ bungalow outside Southampton, £254,000.

He’s been quoted £2550 in solicitor fees. Does that seem okay? I assume the location, age and type of property comes into play?

I can’t recall our fees, 18 years ago, so no idea. I sort of felt that seemed okay, can anyone advise?

Thanks. I want to help this young person I work with.

I recently paid about £1600 in SE London for a property worth £250-300k bracket if that helps

Also FTB & this was leasehold flat x

Thank you. Anyone else?

seems very expensive

Seems expensive, we’re in the process of buying at 750k and our fees are about 2k…..

We just paid 1700 also soton area.

Thanks, I’ve advised my friend that that is too much.

Could I please ask who you used?

Is that just the solicitor's fee plus vat or does it include the cost of searches, registration etc (disbursements)? Buying a house is one of the biggest purchases and decisions that you ever make, I would be getting a range of quotes and looking at reviews or getting personal recommendations. You want a really good firm who do a professional, proper and thorough job. Mumsnet has regular posts about rubbish conveyancing and issues that come up post completion. Choosing wisely on your purchase solicitor is a must.

That seems expensive to me. I paid £1,926 (VAT included) for our legal fees on our mid terraced house. I thought that was steep enough!

On the dearer side, but it also depends what you're getting. Is it an actual firm of solicitors, or conveyancers? They're not the same thing. As a pp said, does it include searches? Some purchases require more of these than others, it might be the property.

Completely depends on what is being offered in return for the fee. A bentley and a bus are both means of transport but....

I paid an all in fee of just over £1000 for a house worth £150k but that was over ten years ago.