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About Conveyancing Solicitors Dorchester
We have hand selected some of the best conveyancing solicitors Dorchester has to offer and we only provide fixed fee conveyancing quotes tailored to your needs that are backed by a no sale no fee.
When working with SAM Conveyancing you have one dedicated member of our team to work with from start until finish; to ask all those questions that need an answer. You'll also benefit form our state of the art Online Conveyancing Process - it's free to use so why not take a look!
Selling or buying a home with our Dorchester Conveyancing Solicitors
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 in Dorchester to help make buying a property achievable. The work is more complex and we have specialist conveyancing solicitors to handle the following:
- Shared Ownership Solicitors
- Help to Buy Solicitors - The local Help to Buy Agent for Dorchester is Own Your Home Government Scheme
- Right to Buy Solicitors Dorchester - speak to Dorchester Town Council to find out if you are eligible
- Discount Market Sale Dorchester - check with Dorchester Town Council if they are running a DMS scheme
Property Solicitors Dorchester
Our Conveyancing Solicitors Dorchester have successfully completed numerous conveyancing transactions from start to finish so whether your matter is a comparatively simple purchase for a property in Dorchester or, for example, a Sale and Purchase involving a shared ownership property with a Deed of Trust being executed simultaneously, you can rest assured that by choosing us you are in the right hands.
Dorchester Property Prices
| Average property price in Dorchester | £296,712 |
| % Change compared to last year | 0% |
| Population of Dorchester | 19,060 (2011) |
Property price data is sourced from the Land Registry House Price Index by Conveyancing Solicitors Dorchester.
Conveyancing Solicitors in and around Dorchester
Our Dorchester 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 find a solicitor near you.
Recently completed properties 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.
Fixed Priced
Conveyancing Quotes
Tailored conveyancing quotes to include all of the solicitors' conveyancing fees for selling a house or buying a house. Read our Fixed Price Conveyancing Quotes Policy
Conveyancer near me covering 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.
Conveyancing Quality Scheme & On All Mortgage Lender Panels
All of our panel solicitors have been awarded the CQS badge of excellence and can work on with any mortgage lender in England & Wales.
No Sale No Fee Conveyancing
All sale and purchase conveyancing quotes come with No Sale No Fee protection. Read our No Sale No Fee Policy
What are the conveyancing costs?
Dorchester Conveyancing Solicitor fees dramatically vary depending on whether you approach an online conveyancing solicitor, a high street conveyancer or housing solicitors introduced by your estate agent.
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.
Fast, good and cheap conveyancing
Read our guides on how you can get all three:
Which Property Searches Do You Need?
If you're buying a property in Dorchester using a mortgage, when your four main searches are returned these may in turn flag up other areas of concern, such as Japanese Knotweed, for which you may be advised to take out an indemnity insurance policy.
Japanese Knotweed is a plant which spreads and grows prodigiously and can break through concrete and brickwork. Even after eradication treatment has been carried out it can reappear years later. A free Hazard Alert automatically identifies if the property you're looking to buy is in an area of low, medium or high risk, based on data from the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology.
Based on the Hazard Alert findings, you can order an insurance policy to help protect future buyers and lenders in the event that Japanese Knotweed is identified on the property within 5 years.
If Japanese Knotweed is flagged as an issue you should check the seller’s property information form (section 7) [click to find out more] when they are sent through as the sellers state whether the property has been affected by Japanese Knotweed.
