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If you are selling your home and would like a free conveyancing quote call our residential conveyancing specialists on 0161 696 6187 for a free, no obligation initial chat or use our free online calculator: selling a house - conveyancing quote.
Our team of award winning experts have helped thousands of people to sell a property and would welcome the opportunity to get you moving.
Why choose our solicitors to sell your house?
What we quote for is what we do – other solicitors may ‘appear’ to be cheaper but that is often because they don’t cover all costs. We include the price of compulsory searches in our quotes, referred to as disbursements so that you are fully aware of the total cost but do not make up part of our legal fees.
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Once you instruct us to act for you a case manager will be allocated to your file and you will have their contact details – including direct dial and email address – this will provide you with certainty that your case is being handled by your own dedicated specialist who will be more than happy to discuss your sale to ensure that you are fully aware of the process.
A guide to selling your houseAnyone wishing to sell their property can market it for sale. Very often this will be done by an estate agent in the locality of the property. Once an offer has been accepted, legal work must then be done for the transaction to proceed.
Once the property has been sold, the seller's solicitor will send a contract and copies of the title to the property to whoever acts for the buyer. The seller will be expected to complete property information forms (giving details of the property) and a fixtures, fittings and contents form (confirming what is included in the sale price).
The seller may also be asked to answer specific questions about the property raised by the buyer's representative. Once the buyer confirms they are ready to proceed a completion date is set. On that date any current mortgage on the property is paid off and the seller's belongings must be removed from the property so that when the keys to the property are handed over to the buyer nothing is left behind which should not be.
On the completion day, the proceeds of the sale after paying all expenses are paid over to the seller.
If you would like more information on our conveyancing services contact our specialist team on 0161 696 6187 for a free, no obligation initial chat, or request more information via our online enquiry form.
Solicitors fees can vary for selling a house, depending on a number of factors. The average costs are usually between £750 - £1,500 for selling only, but your solicitor should be able to give you a tailored conveyancing quote before you commit.
The conveyancing fees for selling a house can also depend on your location and the value of the property. Get tailored selling a house conveyancing quotes from Stephensons by calling 0161 696 6187.
Selling a house isn’t just the process of waiting for an acceptable offer to be made by a buyer; you also need to take into account the conveyancing process once the offer has been accepted, before the property ownership actually changes hands.
The entire process from when your house goes on the market to when the sale completes can take anything from a couple of months to a significantly longer period of time. Some of the factors involved in how long it takes to sell a house include the current state of the housing market in your area (how in-demand houses like the one you are selling are), whether there is a buying chain involved and how long it is, and also how smoothly the conveyancing process goes once you have instructed a selling property solicitor.
Conveyancing itself usually takes around 8-12 weeks on average, but can take longer if the circumstances around the property are complex or third party delays occur.
The vast majority of house sellers use conveyancing solicitors for selling a house to handle the legal side of the transaction, as it can be a complex process and the consequences if things are not done correctly are serious.
Experienced conveyancing solicitors are ideally placed to help the transaction go as smoothly as possible and to help to deal with any issues that arise along the way, such as any communications required with other parties involved. Using an expert selling a house solicitor can help speed up the process and mean less stress for you.
When you’re selling a property, the legal fees for selling a house are usually due upon completion of the property sale.
There may be some small costs that are due at various points of the conveyancing process before this, such as paying for money laundering checks on the buyers, buying a copy of the title deeds and bank transfer fees for receiving the proceeds of the sale.
When you sell a property, the majority of searches are done by the buyer and their solicitor, so your selling conveyancing solicitor instead provides information to the other party about things like the property’s basic information and energy efficiency performance.
As a seller, you must maintain an insurance policy on the property until the completion date and if there are tenants in the property, they need to move out or make an agreement with the buyer about what happens when the property changes hands. Your solicitor can handle all of these communications on your behalf, as well as the legal side of the transaction itself when the contracts are exchanged and finally completed.
If you are selling a property and would like more information on our conveyancing services, contact our specialist team on 0161 696 6187.
This depends on the location, value and type of the property - please contact us for a competitive quote.
On average it is approximately 4-6 weeks from the date of submission of a contract to the buyer's solicitor to completion but this can vary depending on the type of transaction and whether there is a chain of linked matters.
Normally we work on a 'no completion no fee'* basis if the transaction is straightforward. Our fees and any other expenses incurred are deducted from the sale proceeds before they are sent to you.
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*Subject to terms and conditions
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