What are the conveyancing costs in Newcastle upon Tyne?
The conveyancing costs are broken into two sections: the fixed fee you pay your solicitor, and the third-party costs (known as conveyancing disbursements). Here is a transparent breakdown of both costs for property transactions in your area.
1. Solicitor Legal Fees
At SAM Conveyancing, our fixed legal fees remain consistent nationwide, regardless of your property's location. We provide a guaranteed fixed fee for standard residential conveyancing based on your property's purchase price, its tenure (freehold or leasehold), and whether you are purchasing with a mortgage or utilising affordable housing schemes like shared ownership. Below are the current fixed conveyancing fees for a standard freehold valued at £250,000.
- Sale or Purchase: £908 INC VAT INC VAT (plus an additional £60 INC VAT if purchasing with a mortgage).
- Transfer of Equity: £399 INC VAT INC VAT
- Help to Buy Loan Repayment: £333 INC VAT INC VAT
- Remortgage: £399 INC VAT INC VAT
2. Conveyancing Disbursements (Third-Party Costs)
Disbursements are fixed third-party fees paid to external bodies (like local councils and HM Land Registry) to complete your legal paperwork. These costs shouldn't vary too much from solicitor to solicitor.
- Property Purchase Tax (SDLT / LTT): Calculated dynamically based on your purchase price, your buyer status (such as a first-time buyer), and whether the property is located in England or Wales.
- HM Land Registry Fee: Ranges from £20.00 to £1,105.00, scale-calculated dynamically based on your property’s purchase price and whether it is an existing registered property or a new build.
- Conveyancing Search Bundle: £325 INC VAT (Includes Local Authority, Water & Drainage & Environmental)
- Online ID Fee: Ranges from £15 to £48 and avoids having to send personal documents in the post or visit our office in order to prove your ID.
- Mortgage Portal Fee: The cost to download your mortgage offer and communicate with your lender. It is £12 if your mortgage lender uses the Lender Exchange portal, or £45 INC VAT if they use the LMS Portal.
Conveyancing search costs and turnaround for Newcastle upon Tyne
Search Provider | Cost | Turnaround Time |
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Search Provider County Durham This is the local authority search, which is mandatory if you are obtaining a mortgage. | Cost £144 INC any VAT | Turnaround Time 10 to 15 |
Search Provider Northumbrian Water This is the Water & Drainage Search, which is mandatory if you are obtaining a mortgage. | Cost £83.40 INC VAT | Turnaround Time 1 to 3 working days |
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Why choose SAM Conveyancing Solicitors in Newcastle upon Tyne?
Whether you're buying, selling, remortgaging, dealing with a lease, staircasing shared ownership, or paying off your Help to Buy loan, you'll need a conveyancing specialist to handle the legal side of things. With SAM, you benefit from a dedicated conveyancing executive who will guide you through the process, from start to finish, at no extra cost. Available Monday to Saturday to answer all your questions, we'll bridge the gap between you and your solicitor, with regular updates in plain English.
We have hand-selected some of the best conveyancing solicitors Newcastle upon Tyne has to offer, which are backed by a no-sale-no-fee guarantee, and the fixed-fee we quote is broken down so you can see exactly what your quote includes. No unpleasant surprises.
You'll also benefit from our state-of-the-art Online Conveyancing Process to track your progress and next steps along the way.
We're first-time-buyer friendly
86% of our purchase clients are First-Time Buyers, so we are hyper-attuned to what you need when buying your first home.
- We take the time to explain the process
- We offer tips on timescales
- We keep it real, never overpromising
Our Conveyancing Services
We can help with all of your conveyancing needs; simple to complex, and always affordable.
- Purchase
- Sale
- Transfer
- Remortgage
- Help to Buy Repayment
- Help to Buy Sale or Transfer
- Auction Sale or Purchase
- Shared Ownership Sale & Purchase
- Shared Ownership Staircasing
- Lease Extension
- Purchase of Freehold
- New Builds & Off-plan Purchases
- First Time Buyers
- Second Homes
- Buy to Let landlords
Fixed quote for our legal costs plus a budget-friendly breakdown of third-party disbursements.
Your sale or purchase is protected by our no sale, no fee guarantee.
Our panel solicitors are pre-approved to work with 99% of mortgage lenders in England & Wales.
Panel solicitors accredited by the Conveyancing Quality Scheme; regulated by the SRA.
Residential Conveyancing Solicitors in and around Newcastle upon Tyne
Our Newcastle upon Tyne conveyancing solicitors can help you with your conveyance locally or in any of the surrounding areas, including Sunderland, Gateshead, Longbenton, Wallsend, Jarrow, Whitley Bay and South Shields.
We have many offices throughout England and Wales, so you can find a solicitor near you.
- Beech Grove Rd, Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear NE4 6RS
- 81 Houston Street, Newcastle Upon Tyne, NE4 6HZ
- 103 Severus Rd, Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear NE4 9NP
- 12 Downend Rd, Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear NE5 5NJ
- 11 Shibdon Bank, Blaydon-on-Tyne, Tyne and Wear NE21 5EP
- The Prestwick (house) – Elmwood Park Court, Eash Plaza Sir Bobby Robson Way, North Gosforth, Newcastle Upon Tyne, NE13
Marketed by Persimmon Homes.
Newcastle upon Tyne Property Prices
| Average property price in Newcastle upon Tyne | £215,794 |
| Population of Newcastle upon Tyne | 266,200 (2011) |
Thinking of moving to Newcastle upon Tyne?
Newcastle upon Tyne, or Newcastle, is a city in Tyne and Wear in North East England, around 277 miles north of London. It developed around the Roman settlement of Pons Aelius. Landmarks and attractions include the Tyne Bridge and the Great North Museum, and open spaces include Hodgkin Park and Denton Dene.
Specific for this area is the Tyneside lease, in which properties are separated into 2 flats. The leasehold owner of the ground floor flat usually has the freehold title for the first floor flat and vice versa. This makes the 2 flats legally dependent on each other. We discuss this in further detail in our article - Tyneside Lease.
The Royal Victoria Infirmary, Queen Victoria Road, Newcastle Upon Tyne NE1 4LP
Freeman Hospital, Freeman Road, High Heaton, Newcastle Upon Tyne NE7 7DN
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By rail, Newcastle Central Station offers connections to Penzance, Edinburgh, Aberdeen, London Kings Cross, Liverpool Lime Street and many other destinations. Newcastle has its own international airport. By road, the city is accessible from many trunk roads, including the A1 and the A194(M), which terminates just south of the city. The A194(M) links to the Al(M) for destinations southward.
Distance to Airports from Newcastle upon Tyne
| Airport | miles by car |
| Newcastle | 6.2 miles |
| Durham | 38.3 miles |
| Leeds | 92.9 miles |
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Sacred Heart Catholic High School, Fenham Hall Dr, Newcastle upon Tyne NE4 9YH
Longbenton Community College, Hailsham Ave, Newcastle upon Tyne NE12 8ER
Local conveyancing solicitor
Are local, licensed conveyancing solicitors near me more expensive?
Local or high street property lawyers' costs can often be more than those of online conveyancing solicitors. They may handle less cases or be working on a referral arrangement with a local estate agent.
We provide local services, nationally, online, so you get the best of both.
Affordable Housing Schemes
Several affordable housing schemes in Newcastle upon Tyne help make buying a property more achievable. The work is more complex, and we have specialist conveyancing solicitors to handle the following:
- Shared Ownership Solicitors
- Right to Buy Solicitors - speak to County Durham to find out if you are eligible
- Discount Market Sale - check with County Durham if they are running a DMS scheme
Newcastle upon Tyne conveyancing solicitors
You can rest assured that you're in good hands with us. We hand select our panel for skill and experience, from a simple purchase to complex transactions with specialist ownership structures and deeds of trust.
Is the property over 5 storeys (11m)?
Many leasehold properties in Newcastle upon Tyne are in large buildings which now require an EWS1 certificate to confirm if the cladding is fire safe. Thankfully 2022's leaseholder protections mean that most leaseholders are not burdened with the cost of remediation of any defective cladding, but you will need to see the seller's Deed of Certificate to prove that the lease doesn't come with a nasty (and expensive) surprise.
Be particularly wary of purchasing a share of freehold as the freeholders may become liable for the cost of remedying defective cladding. Our specialist leasehold solicitors Newcastle upon Tyne are well experienced with handling all of these added complications, so you will be in safe hands with SAM. Property Challenges Solved.
Look no further for your residential conveyancing solicitor in Newcastle upon Tyne
Whatever your property challenge, we can solve it.
Selling a property
Your expert conveyancing solicitor's role when selling a property will include:
- Draft contracts – Your conveyancing solicitor drafts the initial legal contract to be sent to the buyer's solicitor.
- Responding to enquiries – your solicitor responds to any questions the buyer's solicitor may have (this is where you'll find out if you are missing documents, which can cause delays to your sale).
- Investigating issues – your solicitor may need to complete further investigation to try and satisfy them.
- Exchange contracts – once the buyer's solicitor has satisfied their enquiries, contracts are finalised and exchanged.
- On the day of completion – your solicitor receives the money for the sale, discharges the mortgage (if required), pays the estate agent, deducts their fee and then sends the net sale proceeds to you.
- Post completion – your solicitor receives the DS1 discharge documents and, when leasehold, settles your liabilities for ground rent and service charges.
Our conveyancing solicitors' cost for selling a property starts from £908 INC VAT.
Buying a home
- Draft contracts – Your solicitor reviews the draft contract sent by the seller's solicitor.
- Raising enquiries – your solicitor will ask the seller's solicitor questions based on the contract, title, and property documents to protect you from any nasty surprises.
- Exchange contracts – once your solicitor is satisfied with their enquiries, they agree with the seller to finalise and exchange contracts
- Day of completion – on the day of completion, your solicitor transfers the money for the sale.
- Post completion – following completion, your solicitor makes an application to HM Land Registry to register you as the new owner.
Our Newcastle upon Tyne conveyancing solicitors' cost for buying a property starts from £908 INC VAT.
Add or remove someone from a property title
With a Transfer of Equity, you can buy someone out of a shared property and remove them from the title, or add someone to the title to transfer ownership of a share of the property, making them a joint owner. This service includes:
- Property solicitors' fees, including ID checks, office copies
- HM Land Registration fees
- (if party being removed) ID1 Form verification fee
- (if mortgage) Change of mortgage fee
- (if leasehold) Notice fee to freeholder
Our Newcastle upon Tyne conveyancing solicitors' cost for a Transfer of Equity starts at £399 INC VAT.
If someone is giving up their share of the property for less than market value, they may be required to get independent legal advice, which will be an additional expense.
Switch your mortgage deal in Newcastle upon Tyne
Your remortgage solicitor will perform all the necessary checks, review your new mortgage offer, and update HM Land Registry post-completion. The process is similar to when you purchase but should take less time, as the solicitor doesn't need to raise any legal enquiries.
If you own a leasehold property, your solicitor must carry out extra work to investigate the lease terms. Our conveyancing solicitors' cost for a remortgage in Newcastle upon Tyne starts at £399 INC VAT.
Purchase the next chunk of your equity
When you're ready to buy the next chunk of the equity in your shared ownership property, a conveyancer will be required to handle:
- The bank transfer;
- obtaining a mortgage redemption statement from your existing lender;
- receiving your new mortgage offer and confirming the lender terms;
- receiving the memorandum of staircasing;
- handling completion;
- filing SDLT form (if required); and
- registration at the Land Registry.
Our conveyancing solicitors' cost for shared ownership staircasing in Newcastle upon Tyne starts at £823 INC VAT.
If you need to add someone to the legal title, you will need to pay an additional fee for a transfer of equity.
Paying off your Help to Buy equity loan
You'll need a solicitor to:
- Receive redemption letter;
- review title for ownership and restrictions;
- obtain Authority to Complete;
- draft a deed of postponement for your current lender;
- handling completion;
- bank transfer; and
- if repaid in full, removal of the loan restriction at the Land Registry.
Our conveyancing solicitors' cost for Help to Buy loan redemption in Newcastle upon Tyne starts at £333 INC VAT.
Price based on a freehold with the loan being repaid in full using savings.
Islamic finance solicitors
Specialists in Sharia-compliant conveyancing for Islamic mortgages.
- Can review, advise and negotiate with all Sharia Mortgage Lenders.
- Terms of the contract fully explained with confirmation of Sharia compliance and UK legal compliance.
- We can help with Ijara (Lease), Diminishing Musharaka (Reducing Partnership), and Murabaha (Cost-Plus Financing).
Conveyancing FAQs
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Our panel of solicitors are regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority and conveyancing work is accredited with the Law Society's Conveyancing Quality Scheme.
No Sale No Fee applies to any sale or purchase quote except auction, right to buy, discount market sales, or purchase of land. The No Sale No fee only protects the main solicitor's fee. All Additional Fixed Fees are payable in full. Read our No Sale No Fee Policy.
What are the conveyancing costs?
Fees vary between online conveyancing solicitors, high street conveyancers or housing solicitors introduced by your estate agent.
The actual conveyancing costs, outside of the legal work, should be fixed, 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).
Make sure to budget for all of the above conveyancing costs and to get a fixed fee conveyancing quote from several firms, to compare value.
Making the right choice of solicitor is key to the whole process:
- Cheap Conveyancing
- Fast Conveyancing
- Best Conveyancing Service
Should you use an estate agent's conveyancing solicitors?
You can certainly choose to use a conveyancing solicitor whom an estate agent recommends, but you should never be coerced into doing so, and you should certainly think twice before doing so if you're a buyer.
As a seller, your estate agent is 'on your side' and normally seeks to secure you not only suitable buyers but also to get you the highest selling price possible. It should, therefore, be clear that if you're a buyer, an estate agent's interests are not aligned with yours, but even if you're a seller, there's no advantage in doing so.
Estate agents often receive a commission from a solicitor they recommend when they successfully refer someone to use that solicitor's services. Your choice of solicitor should not affect whether you get an offer accepted or the speed of the conveyancing which ensues, and an estate agent must not state these as reasons to use their preferred solicitor. Find out more about these matters:
