Legal fee costs for purchase house

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Can anyone give me an idea of legal costs to purchase property please along with survey for 3 bed property? Thanks

So many variables, but I am paying £700 conveyancing and £420 for full building survey on 4 bed house.

You also need to factor in stamp duty, land registry fees ( both dependent on price) search fees and make provision for indemnity insurance, which is quite often require. If you are buying with a partner you should also have a Trust deed, which will also cost, along with wills. If its a leasehold property, there will be additional costs, particularly if you a buying a share of the freehold. Your solicitor won't know what these are until they are given the info by the sellers solicitors, but could be a few hundred pounds for deeds of covenant etc.

I've set aside £3,000 for solicitors fees and stamp duty on a £150k property freehold purchase. I've got about 10 quotes from online and local companies and that looks to be a safe amount.

We just paid £5.2k on legal fees and stamp duty on a £295k house. It entirely depends on the cost of the house purchased.

Roughly 3000 to solicitor inc stamp duty and 400 survey then additional for asbestos test

House cost 180

400k house - just over 11.5k legal fees incl stamp duty.

Solicitors normally charge a percentage of the purchase price for their fees plus the fixed costs of land registry fees and searches, and then stamp duty on top if applicable. Shop around and haggle, I got a recommendation for a solicitor through my EA who wanted to charge 2% and said that was industry standard. I said no thank you and put the phone down. Asked around for recommendations from friends and family and found a lovely solicitor who asked for 1% and I talked him down to .75%
It's a lot of money not to try and shop around a bit.

Our purchase costs are £3000 for a £225k house plus £650 on mortgage fees including a homebuyers report.

Depends on the cost of the house and how complicated a transaction it is.
You will need to factor in legal fees, search costs, stamp duty, money transfer costs, mortgage fees and survey (there are different levels of survey - more detailed = higher cost, depends on the house, age and condition as to what you may need)
There are various websites that can give you a rough idea dependent on the value of the house www.stampdutycalculator.org.uk/moving-costs.htm

Thanks very much everyone :)

Excl stamp duty, we've just paid £1,118 for all legal fees, searches, VAT etc. House we are buying is 5 bed for £387,500. Homebuyers Survey cost £520.