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Selling property in Didcot
Your expert conveyancing solicitor's role when selling a property in Didcot, will include:
- Draft contracts – Your conveyancing solicitor drafts the initial legal contract to be sent to the buyer's solicitor.
- Responding to enquiries – your solicitor responds to any questions the buyer's solicitor may have (this is where you'll find out if you are missing documents, which can cause delays to your sale).
- Investigating issues – your solicitor may need to complete further investigation to try and satisfy them.
- Exchange contracts – once the buyer's solicitor has satisfied their enquiries, contracts are finalised and exchanged
- On the day of completion – your solicitor receives the money for the sale, discharges the mortgage (if required), pays the estate agent, deducts their fee and then sends the net sale proceeds to you.
- Post completion – your solicitor receives the DS1 discharge documents and, when leasehold, settles your liabilities for ground rent and service charges.
Our Didcot conveyancing solicitors' cost for selling a property starts from £723 INC VAT.
Why buy a home in Didcot?
Didcot is a large town in South Oxfordshire Borough within Oxfordshire and is 9 miles south of Oxford. It has large open spaces around it, such as Edmonds Park and the Garden of Remembrance and hosts Didcot Railway Centre at Didcot Parkway Station - a great day out for all ages interested in trains.
Other attractions include the Didcot Wave Leisure Pool & Gym in Newlands Avenue and Pendon Indoor Model Village and railways in nearby Abingdon, which seeks to capture the atmosphere and looks of Britain in the 1920s and 30s.
Ridgeway Day Hospital, 99 Wantage Road, Didcot, OX11 0AF
Didcot Community Hospital, Wantage Road, Didcot, OX11 0AG
Abingdon Community Hospital, Marcham Rd, Abingdon, OX14 1AG
The A34 is on Didcot's western outskirts and the M4 is the nearest motorway, to the south. Didcot Parkway Station provides access to Reading, Slough and London Paddington, as well as Oxford, Birmingham and other destinations.
Distance to Airports from Didcot
| Airport | Miles by car |
| Heathrow | 40.2 miles |
| Luton | 52.7 miles |
| Gatwick | 77 miles |
Saint Birinus School, Mereland Rd, Didcot, OX11 8AZ
Didcot Girls' School, Manor Cres, Didcot, OX11 7AJ
Manor School Didcot Academy Trust, Lydalls Cl, Didcot, OX11 7LB
Fixed quote for our legal costs plus a budget-friendly breakdown of third-party disbursements.
Your sale or purchase is protected by our no sale, no fee guarantee.
Our panel solicitors are pre-approved to work with 99% of mortgage lenders in England & Wales.
Panel solicitors accredited by the Conveyancing Quality Scheme; regulated by the SRA.
Residential Conveyancing Solicitors in and around Didcot
Our Didcot conveyancing solicitors can help you with your conveyance locally or in any of the surrounding areas, including Oxford, Reading, Newbury, Witney, Aylesbury, Bicester and Swindon.
We have many offices throughout England and Wales, so you can find a solicitor near you.
- Mereland Road, Didcot, Oxfordshire, OX11 8BE
- 78 Mereland Road, Didcot, Oxon, OX11 8AY
- Broadway, Didcot OX11 8RN
- Wantage Road, Oxon, OX11 0BT
- 5 Abbott Road, Didcot, Oxon, OX11 8JB
- Brunel Rise (houses) – Wantage Road, Didcot.
Developed by Taylor Wimpey.
Didcot Property Prices
| Average property price in Didcot | £353,137 |
| Population of Didcot | 134,300 (2011) |
Local conveyancing solicitor
What are the Pros and Cons of using a licensed conveyancing solicitor in Didcot?
The Pros of using property lawyers near me
- You may know your local conveyancing solicitors - this is a huge benefit if you know your solicitor already, especially if it is a small community where you live.
- You can drop your documents and ID off - losing your original ID and documents is always a worry, so being able pop in to your local conveyancing solicitors office helps alleviate this issue (although with scanned ID and online ID checks the worry of loss passport is a thing of the past).
The Cons of using property solicitors near me
- Not on your mortgage lender's panel - local law firms are often smaller with fewer principals which may exclude them from working with certain major high street solicitors.
- Taking time off from work - it isn't always easy to visit your solicitor and having to see them 2 or 3 times during the conveyancing process may add a strain onto your work life, or be unachievable if you live abroad.
- Locally inexperienced - your local solicitor may not specialise in conveyancing and may have more experience in other areas of law.
- Less competition, higher prices - with less competition your local solicitor's legal fees are most likely to cost more, especially if they have to keep premises in premium high-street real estate.
Why choose SAM Conveyancing Solicitors in Didcot?
Whether you're buying, selling, remortgaging, dealing with a lease, staircasing shared ownership, or paying offyour help to buy loan, you'll need a conveyancing specialist to handle the legal side of things. With SAM you get the benefit of dedicated conveyancing executive who'll guide you through the process, from start to finish, at no extra cost. Available Monday to Saturday to answer all your questions, we'll bridge the gap between you and your solicitor, with regular updates in plain English.
We have hand selected some of the best conveyancing solicitors Didcot has to offer, which are backed by a no sale no fee guarantee and the Didcot conveyancing fee we quote is broken down so you can see exactly what your quote includes. What we quote you is the fixed price you will pay for the agreed work. No unpleasant surprises.
You'll also benefit form our state of the art Online Conveyancing Process to track your progress and next steps along the way.
Affordable Housing Schemes
Several affordable housing schemes in Didcot help make buying a property more achievable. The work is more complex, and we have specialist conveyancing solicitors to handle the following:
- Shared Ownership Solicitors
- Right to Buy Solicitors Didcot - speak to Oxfordshire County Council to find out if you are eligible
- Discount Market Sale Didcot - check with Oxfordshire County Council if they are running a DMS scheme
Didcot conveyancing solicitors
You can rest assured that you're in good hands with our Didcot Conveyancing Solicitors. They are skilled and experienced with complex property transactions from a simple purchase for a property in Didcot to a Sale and Purchase of a shared ownership property, executing a Deed of Trust simultaneously.
Are you buying or selling a short lease in Didcot?
We have specialist leasehold conveyancing solicitors in Didcot to handle your sale & purchase of a leasehold property, as well as lease extensions and creation, sale, or purchase of a Didcot share of freehold property.
Due to the additional legal work surrounding the lease and terms, your quote will be calculated based on the tenure, so as long as you give us the correct details when getting your Didcot leasehold inclusive, fixed fee, conveyancing quotes with the simple form above, this will be included in your initial quote, not a surprise addition later on. Property Challenges Solved.
Conveyancing FAQs: Property Lawyers Didcot
Oxfordshire is a county located in the south-east of England and can be known by the abbreviated name of Oxon. It's the most rural county in the South East. Although it's reputed to be the furthest location from the sea, it has numerous canals and rivers for boating.
King Alfred burnt the cakes in Wantage. Blenheim Palace, built between 1705 and 1722, a Baroque masterpiece, was the birthplace of Winston Churchill and has a landscape garden fashioned by 'Capability' Brown.
Undoubtedly the county is most well-known for the collegiate university town of Oxford itself, with its dreaming spires dating back to the 13th century, but there are so many other attractions, such as the Cotswolds (from where the River Thames springs from) and even the family-friendly Didcot Railway Centre. The county borders Warwickshire to the north/north-west, Northamptonshire to the north/north-east, Buckinghamshire to the east, Berkshire to the south, Wiltshire to the south-west and Gloucestershire to the west.
**Our panel of solicitors are regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority and conveyancing work is accredited with the Law Society's Conveyancing Quality Scheme.
***No Sale No Fee applies to any sale or purchase quote except auction, right to buy, discount market sales, or purchase of land. The No Sale No fee only protects the main solicitor's fee. All Additional Fixed Fees are payable in full. Read our No Sale No Fee Policy.
What are the conveyancing costs?
Didcot Conveyancing Solicitor fees vary between online conveyancing solicitors, high street conveyancers or housing solicitors introduced by your estate agent.
The actual conveyancing costs, outside of the legal work, should be fixed, including:
For buyers: stamp duty, land registration, property searches, ID searches and leasehold charges (if buying a leasehold property).
For sellers: office copies, title plan and management information (if selling a leasehold property).
Make sure to budget for all of the above conveyancing costs and to get a fixed fee conveyancing quote from several firms, to compare value.
Making the right choice of solicitor is key to the whole process:
- Cheap Conveyancing
- Fast Conveyancing
- Best Conveyancing Service
Do you have to pay Capital Gains Tax when you sell a property?
You are exempt from having to pay Capital Gains Tax (CGT) provided that the property you've sold is your primary/main residence.
If you do own more than one property, you'll have to pay CGT but you can choose which property carries the exemption.
