Residential Conveyancing –– Freehold / Leasehold – Purchase / Sale
Professional Fees *As per guidance rate*
Deed Poll drafting and witness £150.00 plus VAT
Stat declaration drafting and witness £150.00 plus VAT
ID1 Witness £100.00 plus VAT
Certify per page £20.00 Inc. VAT
Advice on Occupiers Consent £200.00 plus VAT
Advice on Guarantee for loan £220.00 plus VAT
Witness and advice on TR1 £200.00 plus VAT
Independent legal advice £300.00 plus VAT
Freehold Purchase Fees
| Property Value | Professional Fees (£) | Acting for Lender (£) |
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| Up to £300,000.00 | 900 | 300 |
| £300,001 – £400,000 | 1,200 | 350 |
| £400,001 – £500,000.00 | 1,500 | 400 |
| £500,001 – £700,000.00 | 1,700 | 450 |
| £700,001 – £1,000,000.00 | 1,900 | 500 |
All fees above are subject to VAT.
Leasehold Purchase Extra Charge: £300
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- Our Professional Fees: Stated as above (depends on the Purchase Price)
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- Our Fees for Acting for Lender: (Fees stated as above, depending on the Purchase Price)
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- Office Copy Entries & Title Plan: £24.00
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- Stamp Duty: (Check HMRC stamp duty online calculator – depends on the purchase price and your status as a first-time buyer or additional property owner)
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- Land Registry Fee: £270 – £540 (depends on the purchase price)
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- Local Authority Search: £210 – £350 (depends on the Local Council charges)
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- Drainage & Water Search, Environmental and Flood Report: ~£250.00
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- Official Search (Whole): £12.00
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- Bankruptcy Search: £5.00 (per person)
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- Anti Money Laundering Search: £15.00 (per person)
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- Bank Funds Transfer Fee: £30.00
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- Completion of Stamp Duty Form: £200.00
All our Professional Charges, Obtaining the Freehold Managing pack and Notice of Transfer & Charge are subject to VAT. The current rate of the VAT is 20%.
Freehold & Leasehold Purchases
The completion timeframe depends on transaction complexity, seller efficiency, and property chains. If no related purchase exists, completion typically takes 4-8 weeks.
Process Overview:
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Memorandum of Sale (MoS) received → Client Care Pack sent
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- Initial funds of £1,000.00 requested for search applications
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- Searches conducted (1-3 weeks)
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- Enquiries raised with seller’s solicitors (~1 week response time)
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- Mortgage Offer received & reviewed
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- Client attends office for ID verification & document signing
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- Completion within 2 weeks post-verification
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- Registration (4-8 weeks) before final documents are sent
Freehold & Leasehold Sales
Upon receiving seller instructions, we send Protocol Forms and request an initial deposit. The Draft Contract Pack is prepared and sent to the buyer’s solicitors within 2 weeks.
Process Overview:
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- Protocol Forms sent → Initial deposit requested
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- Draft Contract Pack prepared & sent (~2 weeks)
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- For Leasehold Sales, Freehold/Management Enquiries (~3 weeks)
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- Buyer’s solicitors raise enquiries (replied within 1 week)
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- Client attends office for ID verification & document signing
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- Contracts exchanged & completion scheduled
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- Redemption of existing charge & funds released
Mortgages & Re-Mortgages
The mortgage process begins upon receiving lender instructions. Clients are contacted same day, and an initial deposit of £500.00 is requested.
Process Overview:
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- Client contacted same day
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- Initial deposit £500 requested
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- Searches conducted & reviewed (~3 weeks)
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- Client attends ID verification & document signing
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- Mortgage funds requested → Completion
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- Registration process (4-8 weeks)
Expected timeframe: 4-8 weeks.
Important Notes
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- Applies to transactions up to £1,000,000.00
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- Minimum charge: £750 (for properties up to £150,000.00)
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- All charges subject to VAT (20%)
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- Discounts will apply for existing clients or known properties
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- If a transaction does not complete, pro-rata refunds may apply
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- Standard transactions complete in ~3 months
Immigration & Asylum
Charges in Immigration Cases
- Taking initial instructions from new clients: £ 300.00/-
- Preparation of an asylum claim/Witness Statement/return of statement of addition grounds, advice before full asylum interview, until decision is made by HO: £ 1500.00/-
- Preparing fresh claim until decision is made: £ 1500.00/-
- If dependants, then charge extra: £ 500.00/-
- Returning ‘One Stop Notice’ only: £ 500.00/-
- Preparing 7 years Child policy reps as a fresh claim: £ 1500.00/-
- Application for administrative review under EU scheme: £ 500.00/-
- Appeal to Tribunal–[per person] – IAUT1: £ 500.00/-
- Appeal to Tribunal–[per person] – IAFT4: £ 500.00/-
- Appeal to AIT–[per person] – IAFT5 – ROA: £ 500.00/-
- Appeal to AIT–[per person] – IAFT6 – EC: £ 500.00/-
- Appeal to AIT–[per person] – IAFT7 – NON ROA: £ 600.00/-
- Application to the UT for permission to appeal to the COA: £ 800.00/-
- Hearing in the UT/Response to Directions/Composite Bundle: £ 1500.00/-
- Client arrested – Reps whilst in the DC/IRC: £ 1800.00/-
- Modern Slavery Statement/further reps to NRM/HO: £ 1500.00/-
- DPU file request from HO [new client]: £ 300.00/-
- DPU file request from HO [existing client]: £ 200.00/-
- Bail Application – CIO Bail 401: £ 800.00/-
- Bail Application – IJ – B1 including grounds: £ 800.00/-
- Representations before HO revokes grant of status: £ 1000.00/-
- Deprivation representations/Nationality mitigation: £ 1500.00/-
- Nationality reps based on the case of Supreme Court: £ 800.00/-
- Received date of hearing, Responding to Directions/Preparation of FTT or UT Bundles: £ 1500.00/-
- Representative’s attendance for conference with the barrister: £ 500.00/- + TF
- Representatives’ attendance on the day of hearing: £ 600.00/- + TF
- Rep. attendance at the HO for Screening/Full Interview: £ 800.00/-
- Applications –NTL–TOC-BRP(RC)-Form RR + VAT [online]: £ 800.00/-
- Applications for settled status –BRC + VAT [online]: £ 1000.00/-
- NTL application (Deception) + VAT [online]: £ 1200.00/-
- Apply for the E-Visa – BRP until 31/12/24: £ 500.00/- + VAT
- Representations to HO to change personal details: £ 1000.00/-
- HO online applications [ELR, FLTR & DLR]: £ 1000.00/-
- Fee Exemption – Request for Fee Waiver in order to exercise ECHR rights: £ 800.00/-
- Application for change of conditions of leave to allow access to public funds because circumstances have changed: £ 600.00/-
- Work Permit request for asylum claimants: £ 300.00/-
- Applications under EUSS inc. ILR/Settlement: £ 1200.00/-
- HO EEA application (retained right): £ 1200.00/-
- HO settlement applications [ILR/PR]: £ 1500.00/-
- Method of Entry Questionnaire: £ 300.00/-
- Statement of Additional Grounds/Red Notice: £ 500.00/-
- Advising the client in office up to 30 Minutes: £ 70.00/-
- Entry Clearance applications: £ 1000.00/-
- Completing the forms for Entry Clearance: £ 1000.00/-
- Application to remove Deportation Order/Ban: £ 1300.00/-
- JR Applications–Pre Action Protocol letter/advice [challenging delay]: £ 300.00/-
- JR Applications–Pre Action Protocol letter/advice [challenging refusal/certified decision]: £ 500.00/-
- JR Applications in the HCJ or UT including Court fees: £ 2600.00/-
- JR App. refused, renewal to an Oral Permission Hearing: £ 500.00/-
- JR Applications – Oral Hearing at HCJ or UT: £ 1000.00/-
- Application in the Court of Appeal: £ 3500.00/-
- HO Travel Document per person: £ 500.00/- + VAT
- British Citizenship – Individual [AN, T, MN1, S]: £ 1000.00/- + VAT
- British Citizenship, request for reconsideration – NR: £ 600.00/- + VAT
- British Citizenship, endorsement RR: £ 500.00/- + VAT
- British Citizenship, Replacement of lost/damaged certificate: £ 500.00/- + VAT
- British Citizenship – Deception: £ 1500.00/- + VAT
- Passport application [in-country]: £ 300.00/- + VAT
- Completing passport forms: £ 100.00/- + VAT
- Passport application [out of the country]: £ 700.00/- + VAT
- Application to grant the child Refugee Status or Humanitarian Protection if the child is born in the UK after the parent has been granted Refugee Status or HP: £ 800.00/- + VAT
- Reps/Application requesting grant of leave to after losing deprivation appeal: £ 1000.00/- + VAT
- Fax to HO, letter to client, in & Out telephone call: £ 50.00/-
- Work Permit application/request: £ 500.00/-
- Translations of documents – Per Page: £ 100.00/-
- Collecting or requesting documents from the file: £ 100.00/-
Probate
Obtaining a Grant and Administering the Estate
A full administration covers everything from writing to the banks for the probate value of all bank accounts, obtaining valuations of any property, completing the inheritance tax return forms and applying for the Grant. Once the Grant is received, we collect in all the monies, deal with any liabilities, make payment of any inheritance tax and prepare estate accounts and distribute the estate to beneficiaries in the Will, or if there is no Will, in accordance with the intestacy rules.
Our costs are based on our probate specialist’s hourly rate of £290.00 per hour plus 20% vat to £320.00 per hour plus 20% vat. We want to be up front with our fees and in a bid to simplify this, please see below our estimated fees for probate matters:
A simple estate typically involves:
- Couple of assets and beneficiaries
- Preparing an IHT 205 tax return
- Applying for the Grant of Probate
We estimate our fees to be between £3,000 and £7,000 plus VAT plus third -party costs. (depending on the complexity)
An average estate typically involves:
- All as above
- At least 4 assets including at least one property
- At least 4 beneficiaries
- Preparing an IHT 400 tax return and schedules
- Applying for the Grant of Probate
- Calculating and paying inheritance tax
- Advising on Capital Gains Tax on sale of the property
We estimate our fees to be between £4,500 – £14,000 plus VAT plus third -party costs
A complex estate typically involves:
- All as above
- More than 5 assets, including properties
- More than 5 beneficiaries
- The firm is the executor
- Obtaining valuations for specialist/unusual assets
We estimate our fees to start from at least £15,000 -20,000 plus VAT and third- party costs with no upper limit.
ALTERNATIVE FEE STRUCTURE
| Gross Value | Fixed Fee/Percentage (plus VAT) |
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| Between £400,000 and £650,000 | 1.5% of gross value |
| Between £650,000 and £1,000,000 | 2% of gross value |
| Above £1,000,000 | 1% of gross value |
Disbursements (fees payable to others)
- Probate Court fee £155.00 plus 50p for each copy required
- Bankruptcy search fee £2.00 per search – (this will be higher if a beneficiary lives abroad)
- Statutory advertisements, if required, on average £230.00.
Our fees are usually payable out of the estate, not personally by the Personal Representatives.
Probate services not included in our fee structure
Whilst administering an estate is broadly the same, certain elements can vary the process from one probate matter to another. These factors can have a big impact on the time scale and requires additional work.
If this is relevant in your probate matter, we will highlight this to you in the earliest opportunity and also discuss our fees for the additional work. Please note the following inexhaustive list which sets out extra elements of services which are not included in our fixed fee structure in probate matter:
- Number of beneficiaries (legatee or residuary legatee) to make distributions
- Missing original Will
- Missing beneficiaries
- Sale of properties
- Overseas assets (e.g. obtaining valuation or sale) or any foreign element involved
- Deed of Variation or any other form of estate planning
- Creating a Trust out of the Will and registering the same with HMRC
- All contentious nature of work (including executor clients not providing unanimous instructions)