What types of fees do you definitely have to pay for your legal solicitor?
May 27th, 2010 by admin
I’m going to buy a house, and my prospective solicitor sent me a quote. It lists the “professional fee”, which I find very reasonable.
However, in the list, there are also other fees:
1. Search fee ( planning permissions, planned roads, water, drainage and environmental matters, etc)
2. Acting for lender ( Fee applied if your conveyancer is acting for your mortgage lender – only applicable if you are purchasing with a mortgage.)
3. Telegraphic Transfer Fee
4. Stamp Duty Land Tax Return Preparation
5. Land Registry Charges
Can you omit any of these fees, or are they all compulsory?
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I’m afraid they are standard fees and are all (usually) needed for the process to go through. In theory you could omit 1. but it would be very risky to do so, as searches can highlight some things which may well make you change your mind about buying a particular property.
You can omit 4.
I paid our solicitor £55 to fill out that form and they got it all wrong.
I filled it out properly, sent it back marked out of ten, they filled out a new one and still charged me.
The rest you really have no choice but to pay.
this is all part of what you have to pay. As long as the professional fees are reasonable they are not ripping you off.
Unfortunately they are all standard I’ve just got my solicitors bill over £900!! I got a few quotes but they are ether more or about the same.