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    Housing Solicitors Request

    Hi guys,

    As many will have seen form my previous thread I am in the process of selling my house. Now the offer has been accepted, and the other party has a solicitor in place. The Estate Agent's have offered me their in house solisitor for a 'competitive' fee but I am inclined to try and find one myself.

    Can anyone recommend any good solisitors they have used in the passed? I am very keen on those who have first hand experience of them and can give me a named person to contact!

    Many thanks!

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    Re: Housing Solicitors Request

    Could recommend a few conveyancers local to me, but I'd be recommending them because they're local and if you can get people in the process to use local guys then it helps the communication. I wouldn't especially recommend them if you weren't local to me (which you aren't).

    So... ask at your pub/church/bridge group/mens working club for some local recommendations.

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    Re: Housing Solicitors Request

    I always go local, we've found it to be vital to be able to nip in and jab them in the ribs to get on with a conveyancing issue in hand. Solicitors tend to go by who shouts loudest if they have a pile of conveyancing to do and yours will drop to the bottom of the pile if you don't hound them every day.

    My most used phrase is always, "Have I done everything I need to do today to make this happen? And what are you going to do next and when".

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    Re: Housing Solicitors Request

    I recently sold and brought a house and the estate agents also made a recommendation for a solicitor which i rejected. I didn't even want to know the name. So I asked round and got recommendations from friends etc and plopped for one who lived down the next road from us so she could pop round after work to pick up paperwork and such.

    Turns out she was also the solicitor recommended by the original estate agents.

    On a side note i did get a few quotes to compare them all and once of the quotes was (for sale of our house £625, and purchase of new house £6500!!) apparently a typo but it was enough to put me off.

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    Re: Housing Solicitors Request

    I got quotes from 4 or 5 local solicitors. Out of them 1 never got back to me, 1 insisted on repeated cold calls trying to get my business. Out of the bunch one had a good website, prompt communication but not pushy and were one of the only ones to spell my name right!

    That combined with them being my Mum's solicitor for the past 20 years was enough for me. Can't rate them highly enough. I did find that for housing stuff everyones fee's were within £'s of each other.

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    Re: Housing Solicitors Request

    As others have said, I'm not local and the guy I use doesn't work that far afield.

    But also as others have said, I WOULD NOT take a recommendation from an estate agent. My view, justified or not, is that if the solicitor is on recommendation from an agent, then at the very least, there's a relationship between the agent and solicitor, and if they work together regularly, the lawyer isn't going to want to risk alienating the agent giving him referrals. I want my lawyer working unequivocally for me, not having a potential conflict of interest.

    Admittedly it's based on a small and statistically unsound sample, but I don't trust estate agents one iota. I've come across too many sharp and shifty ones, and one that was downright deceitful. Fortunately, he was the vendor's agent, and once I realised what he was up to, I bypassed him and dealt direct with the vendor over price, timings, inclusions, etc. Turned out he'd rejected one offer without even consulfing the seller .... an offer the seller immediately accepted when he found out about it, and for a house I actually bought.

    So, I'm afraid my attitude is simple - I'll find my own solicitor, my own surveyor, and I wouldn't go near a mortgage offer via an estate agent either .... if I still needed a mortgage, which thankfully, I don't.

    As for who you use, I can only suggest trying to get direct recommendations from people that have bought or sold, locally, recently .... if you can find them. Friends, family, neighbours ..... colleagues maybe?

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    Re: Housing Solicitors Request

    I was recommended one by a friend.

    I could only strongly advise against using them.

    However, them being lawyers, regardless of the comptiency they handled my work with, I know better than to bad mouth them on the net

    What I will say is watch them like a hawk. Check and double check all paperwork, land registry, AML stuff.
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    Re: Housing Solicitors Request

    Thanks for all the responses guys, I struggled to get any first hand recommendations from people (turns out a lot of people have been let down my conveyancing solicitors...) so called a few firms that came out cheap(er) and the one that got back to me the quickest, picked up phone quickest and seemed most competent over the phone has got my business. They have a few good reviews online and a customer service guarantee so we will wait and see!

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    Re: Housing Solicitors Request

    Good luck .... with the whole affair. It's not for nothing that buying and selling houses is one of about the three most stressful experiences in life, generally ranking up there wiith divorce and death of a close family member or loved one.

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