Conveyancing Solicitors Dorchester
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Local knowledge of Dorset
Our Dorchester Conveyancing Solicitors have years of experience helping clients with their conveyance in Dorchester and have close connections with Dorchester Town Council to ensure we can get conveyancing searches returned as quickly as possible to you and your property solicitors.
Conveyancing Quality Scheme & On All Mortgage Lender Panels
The Law Society have awarded our panel solicitors the CQS badge of excellence, only given to the best solicitors in the conveyancing discipline, which means they are able to deliver conveyancing services in Dorchester to the high standards expected; which are reviewed annually. We are also able to work with any mortgage lender in England & Wales including Metro Bank, HSBC, Santander & Halifax Plc. Law Society find a solicitor.
No Sale No Fee
Your sale or purchase quote come with an automatic No Move, No Fee protection for solicitors Dorchester which means if you have to pull out for any reason, then you'll not have to pay for your solicitors fees for work completed to date.Â
Find out more about selling or buying a home in Dorchester
Dorchester is a town located in the county of Dorset. It is a popular place to live in because of its beaches and historic attractions such as Maiden Castle as well as leisure facilities.
BMI The Winterbourne Hospital, Herringston Rd, Dorchester DT1 2DR
Dorset County Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Williams Ave, Dorchester DT1 2JY
Weymouth Community Hospital, 3 Melcombe Ave, Weymouth DT4 7TB
Dorchester is accessible by rail from London Waterloo which is 2 hour and 31 minute away by direct train and by car it is accessible via the M3.
Distance to Airports from Dorchester
| Airport | Miles by car |
| Bournemouth | 26.6 miles |
| Bristol | 47.94 mi miles |
| Southampton | 50.12 mi miles |
The Thomas Hardye School, Queen's Avenue, Dorchester DT1 2ET
The Sir John Colfox Academy, Ridgeway, Bridport DT6 3DT
Dorset Studio School, Kingston Maurward, Dorchester DT2 8PX
Dorset is a county in the south of England with the English Channel on its southern coast. Its county town is Dorchester although larger cities and towns include Bournemouth, Poole, Weymouth and Ferndown. Dorset has various different types of landscape including clay valleys, limestone ridges and chalk downs. Bournemouth and Poole have their own unitary authorities.More than 50% of the county is classed as being in an area of outstanding natural beauty. Its coastland in particular has been regarded as very interesting from a geographical/geological perspective, including the Isle of Portland, Durdle Door and Chesil Beach.
Sandbanks, a suburb of Poole, has achieved the heights of having the fourth highest land values in the whole world. Adjacent counties include Hampshire, Somerset, Wiltshire and Devon.
Bournemouth Airport offers scheduled flights to the European mainland and islands. There are no motorways in the county and the main trunk roads are the A303, A35 and A31. Poole offers ferries to France and the channel islands. Bournemouth has two universities, Bournemouth University and The Arts University Bournemouth.
Dorset has more than 30 general and specialist museums, including the Tank Museum at Bovington and the Dorset County Museum in Dorchester. Grade I listed buildings include Portland Castle, a coastal fort commissioned by Henry VIII, and Christchurch Priory, the longest church in England.
Thomas Hardy, the famous novelist, was born in Higher Bockhampton near Dorchester in 1840 - his fictional town 'Casterbridge' is based on Dorchester. Enid Blyton, the children's author, allegedly bought Purbeck Golf Club for £1, using it to go on holiday in Swanage: she apparently based many of her 'Famous Five' books around the Isle of Purbeck and Poole Harbour.
Finally, in the form of the Dorset Naga, the county has a claim on producing the hottest chilli in the world, with an average score of 923,000 Scoville Heat Units.
Affordable Housing Schemes
There are a number of affordable housing schemes to help you purchase properties in the area. The work is more complex and we have specialists to handle the following:
- Shared Ownership Solicitors Dorchester
- Help to Buy Solicitors Dorchester - The local Help to Buy Agent for Dorchester is Help to Buy South West (click to go to website) and their contact details are: Address:Help to Buy South WestTemplar HouseCollett WayNewton AbbotTQ12 4PHEmail:Â info@helptobuysw.org.ukTel:Â 0300 100 0021
- Right to Buy Solicitors Dorchester - speak to Dorchester Town Council to find out if you are eligible
- Discount Market Sale Dorchester
Click to read about 1) Help to Buy ISAs; and 2) Lifetime ISAs
Dorchester Property Prices
| Average property price in Dorchester | £296,712 |
| % Change compared to last year | 0% |
| Population of Dorchester | 19,060 (2011) |
The property price data is sourced from the Land Registry's UK House Price Index and you can view up to date property prices by clicking - Land Registry House Price Index
CONVEYANCING IN AND AROUND Dorchester
Our conveyancing solicitors can help you with your conveyance locally or in any of the surrounding areas including Fordington, Poundbury, Lower Burton, Stinsford , Charminster, Winterborne Monkton and Martinstown.
We have a number of offices throughout England and Wales so you can search for your conveyancers and find a solicitor near you.
Recently completed properties from our property lawyers in Dorchester:
- Damers Road, Dorchester DT1 2JX
- Great Western Rd, Dorchester DT1 1UF
- Alington Rd, Dorchester DT1 1NS
- Lancaster Rd, Dorchester DT1 1QG
- Edward Rd, Dorchester DT1 2H
New build developers and developments in the area:
- Apartment – Coningsby Place, Poundbury, Dorchester DT1
Marketed by ZeroC Poundbury, Help to Buy available.
What are the conveyancing costs?
The solicitors' fees for handling your conveyance vary dramatically depending on whether you approach an online conveyancing solicitor, a high street conveyancer or housing solicitors introduced by your estate agent.Â
The actual conveyancing costs, outside of the legal work, should be fixed as they are set including:
For buyers: stamp duty, land registration, property searches, ID searches and leasehold charges (if buying a leasehold property).
For sellers: office copies, title plan and management information (if selling a leasehold property).
It is important to make sure when budgeting the costs of moving home that you factor in all of the above conveyancing costs and ensure you get a fixed fee conveyancing quote from your chosen local solicitors or licensed conveyancer.
Whether you're a cash buyer or buying with a mortgage solicitors are key to the whole process, making the right choice critically important.
Click on What is Conveyancing to find out more.
First time buyer renting? When should you hand in your notice?
Knowing exactly when to hand in your notice as a first time buyer renting is a challenge, given that conveyancing processes are very difficult to pin down to an exact timeframe. This is made more complicated by some landlords demanding a 2-month notice period.
The draw, naturally, is to avoid the double payment of both rent and mortgage. Your solicitor will invariably recommend that you wait until after exchange to give your notice as timeframes are then normally more predictable; unfortunately you might end up completing before your rental period has expired.
Above all, you need to think about the worst case scenario, i.e. that you end up homeless while waiting to complete. You'll then have to find alternative temporary accommodation such as staying at a family member's home or even renting a hotel or a bed & breakfast place while keeping your belongings in storage.
You serve your interests best by getting your solicitor to confirm a realistic date when exchange can take place and then to look to handing in your notice as close to this date as possible.
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