Recommendations for Edinburgh legal firm to sell a flat - or ones to avoid

[EdinburgerGurglerMurgler]

We've only ever bought in Edinburgh, not sold, and our experience wasn't great with the legal firms so wouldn't go back to them.

We now want to sell our flat (nothing special or complicated, just a 2 bed on the west side worth about £100k, no mortgage on it, no chain) and doing some digging around the Mumsnet forum archive provides some real horror stories of firms to avoid! (They're all quite old and I appreciate firms can change though)

On our blacklist so far:
VMH
Taits

Ones we're going to look into:
McQueen Legal
Deans
Beveridge & Kellas
Umega
Hastings Legal (covers south west scotland, have a personal recommendation for them)

We don't neccesarily want the cheapest option, we just want a firm that uses ESPC, and that deals with digital communications well and responds profesionally and competently (you'd think that's not too much to ask, wouldn't you, but I've found it's not actually that normal!). We have a reasonable expectation of speed and don't expect emails to be replied to within a few hours, but prior experiences of basic competency stuff just not being done well (e.g. wrong names on documentation, incorrect addresses not spotted then dealt with snottily when we pointed it out) has made me worried about appointing a legal firm!

Really not looking forward to the process.

Can folk advise with recommendations or horror stories within the last couple of years....?

Thanks.

Warners are good.

I used McDougall McQueen recently & they were good. Would also have been happy to use Warners, Neilsons, Russell & Aitken.

I'd avoid McEwan Fraser.

I came on to recommend VMH but see you have blacklisted! We've sold and bought twice with them and found them absolutely fantastic.

I guess it's all down to personnel experience - I wouldn't touch Warners with a barge pole. They were the selling agents for a flat I bought over 20 years ago. Totally ridiculous that I still hold a grudge but they made my experience a living nightmare!

I sold with Warners last year. Had no real issues with them. Got plenty of people through the door for a one bed in North Edinburgh and sold for HR value within a month

McEwan Fraser are awful. Coulters and Neilsons have a good reputation. We chose MF as they were supposed to have won some award. They were dreadful with a really straightforward process.

this is all really helpful - thank you so much.

(the VMH and Taits blacklisting is due to direct personal experience from within the last 5 years - i think it's down to the luck of whoever you dealt with as the incompetencies were down to the individual lawyers involved, for different reasons. in one case, too junior to handle making a cup of tea never mind overseeing a legal transaction, the other case, the firm was let down by outright professional negligence involving multiple clients - so very unlucky both times. but enough to sour the names for us.)