Solicitors v conveyancer

[strangey]

Hi Could anyone help with this one when buying a property in the past i have always used a solicitor. Is a conveyancing firm a better idea does it work out quicker or better vaue for money. Or is it the same thing with a different title! Do they still do all the required searches and legal work.

If a conveyancer is a good idea could anyone recommend one for me please. :) Many Thanks for your time

[P.Pilcher]

A conveyancer is a person who has sufficient legal credentials to set up in business conveyancing properties. A solicitor can do the work himself, but these days, competition has forced down conveyancing fees to an extent that it is often not worth a solicitor's while to do it him/herself. Such solicitors therefore employ conveyancers themselves to do this work. These are legal executives who specialise in this aspect of the law and are also not distracted by court appearances, client visits (prison) and so on, thus the work gets done more quickly as it would with a pure conveyancing organisation. The only real difference as I can see is that when a really thorny legal problem crops up, the conveyancing executive in a firm of solicitors can refer it to his/her boss for a definitive opinion and can even consult barristers if necessary. This facility is probably not available in a pure conveyancing only firm.

P.P.

[lawstudent]

Hi Could anyone help with this one when buying a property in the past i have always used a solicitor. Is a conveyancing firm a better idea does it work out quicker or better vaue for money. Or is it the same thing with a different title! Do they still do all the required searches and legal work.

If a conveyancer is a good idea could anyone recommend one for me please. :) Many Thanks for your time
The person who is likely to do the best, fastest, best value job is neither a solicitor nor a conveyancer, but yourself. It is mostly very straightforward and there is a good little Consumers' Association guidebook to tell you exactly what to do.

[pippay]

I agree (if its a freehold and not a leasehold which is a tad more complicated) - I've done it myself 3 times and on one occasion wrote into the contract that we would have access to the (empty) property between exchange and completion for the purposes of redecoration. The vendors solcitor never noticed it and had their clients sign on the dotted line. When the vendors came round to find us decorating they weren't best pleased with their solicitor !

The Lenders solicitor should be double checking everything you do anyway. The only thing you won't be in control of is the money! The Lender would normally send this to your solicitor/coneyancer and they would the pay the vendors solicitor. If you were DIYing, they would send it direct to the Vendors solicitor and any monies due back to you, would be sent from him to yourself after completion.





The person who is likely to do the best, fastest, best value job is neither a solicitor nor a conveyancer, but yourself. It is mostly very straightforward and there is a good little Consumers' Association guidebook to tell you exactly what to do.