Solicitors fees

[lindyloo57]

Can anyone pleses give me advice around solicitors fees, had a couple of quotes of around 6000 to sell my house and buy a bungalow, we are in norwich if that helps.

I sold my house (Freehold) last month and my solicitors fees came in at £3500. £1400 of this was for a failed house purchase as the chain broke. Expecting the onward purchase (freehold house) to be another £2000. I was expecting for it to be around 5k originally. I am using a high st solicitor.

We're completing on Tuesday and selling was around 1800 and purchasing around 2200 so about 4k in total. We're in the south East. £6k seems on the high side.

Thats very high. Am in Norwich and called round a few local firms and all quotes were much cheaper than your price.
I used Tenant Mickelburgh when I sold, all of the people there are excellent and very prompt in responding to any queries.

Does that include stamp duty? Ours were about 9k buying only

Obviously I havent bought yet but the price was still much lower than half of your quote.

Check what is included in the quoted price. Solicitors usually quote for just their basic fees on a standard conveyancing, searches, indemnities, chancel repair insurance (if required), registration of title etc are all extra.

£1450 + VAT for the sale and £1,600 plus VAT for the purchase was quoted for mine (plus stamp duty & disbursements). I'm in the South East. Some companies/firms charge a different price depending on how much you sell/buy for - the one that the estate agent "recommended" did anyway, but I went for a high street firm instead.

Not selling, but buying a new build and solicitors cost is £1600.

£6000 sounds excessively high. We bought and sold a couple of years ago and it came to around £3500 in total.

Get some more quotes.

I just realised it includes stamp duty so its around1,500 sell 2,000 too buy and 2.500 so not so bad do you think ?

Yes £3500 in total sounds much more like it. No wonder it was so much if you included stamp duty!