Meaby & Co Solicitors LLP is a limited liability partnership authorised and regulated by the Solicitor’s Regulation Authority (SRA Number 447880) and registered in England and Wales with registered number OC322672. Its registered office is at 2 Camberwell Church St, London, SE5 8QY where a list of members’ names and their qualifications is open to inspection. The term ‘partner’ is used to refer to a member of Meaby & Co Solicitors LLP or an employee or consultant with equivalent standing and qualifications or an individual with equivalent status.
Whatever your circumstances we understand that buying and selling properties is a stressful and expensive time. We believe that the best way to reduce the stress and also get the job done is to have experienced and exceptional lawyers that communicate with clients; keeping them well informed of developments, progress and legal costs throughout.
Our team of lawyers provide thorough, timely and efficient legal advice across all aspects of property law. Our work regularly involves tight deadlines and high value property with complicated structures. We are highly responsive and ensure that our clients’ objectives are achieved.
We explain and guide our clients through the process, ensuring they are well informed of progress. Our fees are competitive and transparent; our clients always know where they stand.
Buying or Selling a Property
If you are looking to buy or sell a property, you can obtain an estimate of our fees and the disbursements by clicking on the yellow ‘Property Quote’ button on the right-hand side of this page.
For more details of how we can assist you through the buying process, click here, and if you would like more details of the selling process, click here.
What Our Fees Include
Included in the cost:
Sale:
- Taking instructions from you and verifying your identity
- With your help, preparing a full sales pack for the purchaser including replies to standard enquiries, title details, all relevant copy documents, such as planning permissions, guarantees and certificates and, if it’s a leasehold, management information from the managing agents
- Preparing a draft contract on your terms and negotiating that with the purchaser’s solicitor
- Liaising with your bank to arrange for the redemption of any mortgage on the Property
- If the property is leasehold, obtaining any necessary consents from your landlord
- Dealing with completion of the sale
- Transferring the net sale proceeds to you
Purchase:
- Full investigation of legal title to the property and rights required for its proper enjoyment, together with a full set of standard searches for your property purchase
- Comprehensive report on our investigations and copies of all documents referred to including advice as to matters affecting ownership in the future, such as alterations / lettings etc. This report will also help your solicitor prepare for a quick sale in the future
- Completion and submission of SDLT forms and payment of SDLT
- Registration of the property in your name at the Land Registry (subject to paying the Land Registry fees) and, if relevant, securing the bank’s charge on the property
Remortgage:
- Investigation of title according to instructions from your new bank including obtaining all new searches and replies to enquiries if required
- If leasehold, obtaining any necessary information and consents from the landlord
- Liaising with your existing lender to remove their mortgage from your title
- Applying to the Land Registry to register the mortgage of the new lender against your title
Not included in the cost:
- Tax advice (we do not provide tax advice but can refer you to a tax specialist if needed.)
- Face to face meetings (other than by appointment)
- Interpretation of planning documents other than on a superficial level
- Advice regarding neighbouring and adjoining properties
- Preparation of lock out / exclusivity agreements if required
- Drafting of co-habitation agreements / trust deeds
- Preparation of supplemental documents eg licences / tenancies / deeds of variation
- Negotiating finance terms
- Cost of liaising with a lender’s solicitors
- Lease extensions
- Rectifying defects in leases or freehold titles
- The grant of a new lease
- Dealing with properties caught by the Building Safety Act 2022
- You are buying in the name of a company
- The property is a new build or shared ownership.
Accredited Conveyancing
We are accredited by the Law Society’s Conveyancing Quality Scheme (CQS), which means our firm conforms to a rigorous assessment every year. We’re proud of our accreditation because it means we can give our clients absolute assurance that we operate to the very highest standard.
Chris Sarsfield
Head of Property Law
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