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Residential Property Conveyancing Solicitors

By any standards, buying or selling your home is a big deal – for many of us, it is the biggest deal of our lives. All the more important, then, to get everything just right.

And that’s where property solicitors come in. Our experienced residential conveyancing solicitors in Chichester are on your side every step of the way, making sure the process runs as smoothly as possible and ironing out any legal difficulties that may arise along the way.

Conveyancing solicitors for Chichester

Whether the property in your sights is to be your first-time home or you’re up-sizing for a growing family, our experts can help. If you are relocating to town, countryside or coast, our local knowledge is at your fingertips.

And if you have found your perfect second home or holiday house, or are looking ahead to a retirement property, our conveyancing specialists will focus their extensive experience to provide you with high-quality personal service that leaves you stress-free to enjoy the moment.

How can a residential property solicitor help?

We offer a full range of residential conveyancing services and maintain excellent links with other South Coast property professionals including estate agents, builders, and developers.
So if you are buying or selling any type of residential property, we can help. If your purchase of a new property depends on the sale of a current property, we can help.

When you are buying property directly from a developer, thanks to our specific expertise in new-build developments, we can help. And if you are buying or selling the property at auction, we can also help.

Our experienced team can help current leaseholders negotiate and complete the purchase of their property’s freehold, either individually or as a group. Alternatively, we can help you extend the length of your leasehold term, adding value to your home or future-proofing your investment.

We can help if you are interested in joint-ownership of a property – our experts are well-versed in specialist co-ownership conveyancing and liaising with multiple lenders, and experienced in drawing up deeds that will protect your interests, a declaration of trust, for example, to establish and clarify each co-owner’s legal and financial responsibilities.

Who can we help?

Whenever you are looking for expert and efficient residential property conveyancing solicitors who take pride in high-quality work for a down-to-earth fee, we can help you.

And, as an integral part of a leading South Coast full-service law firm, our qualified and licensed property practitioners have instant in-house access to a wealth of high-quality all-round legal expertise that is readily available to you, helping you deal with any wider legal issues that may arise along the way.

If you would like to find out more about how our residential property solicitors can help you, call us on 01243 786668, email the property team at info@georgeide.co.uk or contact us directly using the details shown.

For guidance in relation to our charges for residential conveyancing and other information, please click here or see below.

What do our fees cover?

Our fees cover all the work required to complete the purchase of your new home, including dealing with registration at the Land Registry and dealing with the payment of Stamp Duty Land Tax (Stamp Duty) if the property is in England, or Land Transaction Tax (Land Tax) if the property is in Wales.

Purchase of a freehold residential property

The quote below is the average cost of a freehold purchase of a registered property with some element of mortgage finance at a purchase price of £500,000.00

Conveyancer’s fees

Legal fee £1,530.00 plus VAT of £306.00, including bank fee
Search fees £276.00 inc VAT
HM Land Registry fee £100.00 if property is registered
Standard due diligence to include “triple check” verification £35.00 plus VAT of £7.00 per person
Client verification of source of funds/wealth check where client resides abroad or funds come from abroad £50 – £200 plus Vat of £10-£40.
SDLT, The amount will depend on individual circumstances; calculated at the time of purchase

Estimated total: £2,254.00 inc VAT

You will also need to consider:

Disbursements
Stamp Duty or Land Tax

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Purchase of a leasehold residential property

The quote below is the average cost of a leasehold purchase of a registered property with some element of mortgage finance at a purchase price of £500,000.00

CONVEYANCER’S FEES

Legal fee £1,780.00 plus VAT of £356.00 including bank fee
Fee for acting on behalf of the mortgage lender – No additional charge
Search fees Approximately £276.00 inc. VAT
HM Land Registry fee £100.00
Standard due diligence to include “triple check” verification £35.00 plus VAT of £7.00 per person
Client verification of source of funds/wealth check where client resides abroad or funds come from abroad £50 – £200 plus VAT of £10 – £40.
SDLT, The amount will depend on individual circumstances; calculated at the time of purchase

Estimated Total £2,554.00 inc. VAT

You will also need to consider:

Disbursements
Stamp Duty or Land Tax

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Sale of a freehold residential property

Our fees cover all of the work required to complete the purchase of your new home.

The quote below is the average cost of a freehold sale of a registered property at a sale price of £500,000.00.

Conveyancer’s fees

Legal fee £1,530 plus VAT of £306 incl bank fee
Copy of title documents £7.20 incl VAT per document
Standard client due diligence to include “triple check” verification £35.00 plus VAT of £7.00 per person

Estimated total £1,885.20 inc. VAT

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Sale of a leasehold residential property.

Our fees cover all of the work required to complete the purchase of a new home.

The quote below is the average cost of a leasehold sale of a registered property at a sale price of £ 500,000.00.

Conveyancers fees

Legal Fee £1,780.00 plus VAT of £356.00 incl bank fee
Standard client due diligence to include “triple check” verification £35.00 plus VAT of £7.00 per person
Copy of title documents £7.20 per document

Estimated total £2,185.20 inc. of VAT

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Mortgage and re-mortgage.

Our fees cover all of the work required to complete the re-mortgage of your home.

The average cost of a re-mortgage is £950 plus VAT of £190, depending upon the value of the property and the loan.

Should it be necessary for funds to be transferred, an electronic money transfer fee of £30 plus VAT of £6 will be charged.

Standard due diligence to include “triple check” verification £35 plus VAT of £7.

Estimated total: £1,218.00 inc. VAT

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Meet our property solicitor team

Our residential property department is led by Nicholas Smith, a George Ide partner and solicitor with two decades’ legal experience. Friendly, personable and driven to get a good job done well, he has built a reputation for high-value residential sales, plot purchases, and working with regional and national housing developers on behalf of their property buyers.

Based in the heart of Chichester’s city centre, he has built a strong residential property team based on the dedicated support of experienced property professionals with a wealth of local knowledge and expertise.

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Contact our team

For further information about any of our services or to book a no-obligation consultation, call us on 01243 786668 or email directly at info@georgeide.co.uk.

Nicholas Smith | Partner

Head of Residential Property

01243 813535 nicholas.smith@georgeide.co.uk

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Maddie Carty | Licenced Conveyancer

01243 831008 maddie.carty@georgeide.co.uk

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Rosie Morris | Chartered Legal Executive

Residential Conveyancing

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Krystin Frame-Maroulis | Paralegal

Residential Property

01243 971652 krystin.frame@georgeide.co.uk

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Client Testimonials

The speed from offer to completion surprised everyone we spoke to and more than met our deadline to beat the June Stamp Duty deadline. Well done, absolutely delighted.

John Middleditch

Nicholas Smith

Maddie was brilliant in the way she handled everything. She’s a gem. I know it’s been a very rough ride, we can’t say thank you enough.

Sarah & David Gomez

Maddie Carty

Nick was always very quick to respond to any queries and made the whole process a lot less stressful, especially as it was my first property purchase. Guidance documentation was very helpful too. I can’t fault the service.

Teresa Durrant

Nicholas Smith

An outstanding week – thanks for the speed and efficiency on the two deals you’ve acted on. I just wish all solicitors were as proactive as you.
It doesn’t get much better than this.

Mr C

Nicholas Smith

“Dear Nicholas,
It is so nice to have dealings with a straightforward and honest firm, it is so refreshing. You have shown consideration and care in my affairs.”

PR.

Nicholas Smith

Excellent service again – even better than last time. I was particularly impressed and grateful for the very speedy email communications; they were always prompt but also importantly, they were succinct. I was also pleased at the help given in distilling the important considerations and that Nick identified a major issue with the title very early on in the process.

Mike Smith

Nicholas Smith

Maddie was always calm, efficient and prompt in her responses, for which I am very grateful.

Mrs Marilyn Young

Maddie Carty

Thank you very much for facilitating the sale of my house in Solva despite all the difficulties of me being in Portugal at the start, and the tardiness of the other solicitors.

It is great that all is completed and I am grateful for your cheerful help.

Nicholas Smith

Nick was at the very top of his game (again). If there is a better lawyer out there, I’ve yet to meet him. A giant amongst men. Respect.

Pete Cunningham

Nicholas Smith

Nick, Sally, Maddie & Lara, I just wanted to thank you for the excellent service that you all provided in the recent sale and purchase of our home. You made a stressful process a great deal easier, with your prompt responses, ready availability and sound advice. We are very grateful and would recommend you to others. I will complete your feedback form, but just wanted to email my thanks to you directly. Best regards

Richard Clay

Nicholas Smith

Many thanks again for your work and support on the sale of my flat in Putney – as per my previous experiences on sale/purchasing properties with your help, you give conveyancing lawyers a good name! Very efficient, prompt and pragmatic plus you know what to advise/caution me on without overdoing it. After the dust has settled I will be looking for an investment property to buy so no doubt will be back in touch in due course. Enjoy the rest of the summer and thanks again.

Katherine Marshall

Nicholas Smith

It is hard to improve on an existing, excellent service and I have no suggestions to make. I will definitely recommend you and would use your services again.

Mr. Philip Oliver

Nicholas Smith