Online Conveyancing Quotes

Conveyancing Fee

Cost Range

(excluding VAT)

Administration Fee

A very common fee, this is typically justified as a flat fee to cover postage, photocopying, phone calls etc.

£40 to £100

Stamp Duty Land Tax Filing Fee

This is one to spot on most online conveyancing quotes for purchases. After you complete your purchase your solicitor will need to file a stamp duty land tax form for you with HMRC. It is completed for all purchases so should be included within your quote as standard.

£40 to £100

ID or Anti-Money Laundering Check Fee

Most online conveyancing quotes show this as an additional charge so if you don't see it ask if it is is going to be charged. The online ID fee is a charge to verify your name against your address as part of the 'Know Your Client' procedure conducted by the solicitors. SAM Conveyancing charge £8 per name for an online ID check and this is shown within our online conveyancing quote.

£5 to £30

Organising Indemnity Insurance Fee

During the conveyancing process your solicitor may need to obtain an indemnity policy to protect you and the mortgage lender.

£40 to £100

Archiving / File Storage Fee

Following completion your solicitor will need to hold onto your file documents for a number of years. Some online conveyancing quotes charge extra.

£15 to £50

Less than 1 working week between exchange and completion fee

Where completion occurs within 5 working days of exchange, a significant amount of extra work is required by way of additional telephone calls and general chasing as the critical phase of the transaction is compressed into a shorter period of time.

£75 to £150

Corresponding with managing agent fee

In the case of leasehold transactions there will probably be additional correspondence with landlords or managing agents required. Corresponding with all third parties is part of the standard conveyancing service and included in the SAM Conveyancing fees.

£75 to £150

Notice/Deed of Assignment fee

Leases usually include a covenant by the purchaser to serve a notice on the freeholder of the change of ownership. This is known as a Notice of Assignment and often attracts an additional Conveyancing Fee. The solicitor must ensure that a notice of assignment is served on the landlord or the seller will continue to be invoiced for rent and service charge. SAM Conveyancing do not add a charge for this work - we will pass on any disbursement costs.

£50 to £150

Deed of Cross Covenant for Flying Freehold fee

A Flying Freehold situation can be complicated and we would urge you to contact us for further information before instructing a conveyancer who is likely to charge conveyancing fees at a more bespoke level for this type of work.

£200 to £350

Deed of Postponement or Occupier Waiver fee

This work is normally undertaken by an independent solicitor who needs to provide legal advice to an occupier of a property who is not a party to the mortgage.

£150 to £300

Leasehold Supplement Conveyancing Fee

Leasehold sales require the review of additional documentation including the lease, the management pack, freehold title as well as dealing with managing agent and freeholder. At SAM Conveyancing the 'Leasehold Supplement' is included in our standard Conveyancing Fee and will merely pass on any disbursement costs (always without mark up) incurred on your behalf.

£75 to £300

Simultaneous exchange and completion fee

Where exchange and completion happens simultaneously an extra conveyancing fee is sometimes charged. On the day of the simultaneous exchange and completion the highest priority must be given to exchanging on this matter (before all others) to ensure the matter is also completed within the same day.

£75 to £300

Responding to additional enquiries fee

This is one of the scariest additional fees to spot on an online conveyancing quote. This fee will be charged per enquiry raised or responded to and when there can be as many as 20 enquiries, this additional fee can cost hundreds of pounds.

£25 to £50

Payment of Service Charge Arrears fee

When selling a leasehold property you will be required to settle any service charge and/or ground rent arrears before completing your sale. Your lawyer will be asked to give an Undertaking (a legally binding promise) to pay the outstanding amount at the point of completion. If the apportionment of ground rent or service charge is to be shared between buyer and seller, this will be calculated and agreed between the two solicitors.

£50 to £85

Preparing statutory declarations fee

Sometimes the deeds do not contain a right of way over any road or point of access serving the property meaning that legally the owner does not have right of access to their property. The buyers lawyer will conduct a search to attempt to establish who is the legal owner of the road. Sometimes it appears not to be owned by anyone which may or may not be the case but in any event will mean that the owner will be nigh on impossible to contact. In these circumstances it is necessary to obtain a statutory declaration. This is a declaration sworn before a solicitor following the protocol of the Statutory Declarations Act 1835. In this process the seller states that he/she has had full use of the road without any contest or objection or without providing payment of any sort.

£50 to £85

Purchase Repossession/Purchase Supplement fee

Buying a repossessed property is likely to put the buyer under a very strict deadline and this can make the transaction more compressed i.e. the same or higher amount of work will need to be conducted in a lesser amount of time.

£150 to £300

Retention fee

Sometimes after completion a retention is held back pending a post completion event, e.g. finalising of freeholder company accounts. In this example it would mean work continuing in chasing and reviewing managing agents end of year accounts until finalised and releasing the retention as appropriate.

£50 to £100

Sending you copy Title Deeds following completion fee

An additional charge for copying and sending your deeds to you after completion.

£25 to £50

CHAPS/Bank Transfer fee

Every conveyancing transaction requires at least one bank transfer fee so we include 1 free within our standard online conveyancing quote.

£25 to £50

CHAPS/Bank Transfer fee

Every conveyancing transaction requires at least one bank transfer fee so we include 1 free within our standard online conveyancing quote.

£25 to £50