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Selling property in Hertfordshire
Your expert conveyancing solicitor's role when selling a property in Hertfordshire, 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 Hertfordshire conveyancing solicitors' cost for selling a property starts from £723 INC VAT.
Why buy a home in Hertfordshire?
Hertfordshire is a county just to the north of the Greater London area and, as such, is one of the so-called home counties. Hertford is the county town, but there are a number of much larger settlements, such as St Albans and Stevenage. Many of these serve as commuter dormitory towns for workers in London.
Landmarks include Hatfield House (Jacobean), St Albans' Roman remains (Verulamium), Knebworth House (the grounds have often hosted major outdoor concerts) and the De Havilland Aircraft Heritage Centre. The county has many affluent areas, often in relatively small villages, such as Well Pond Green in Standon. Hertfordshire also hosts the University of Hertfordshire, which is divided up between a number of campuses.
Hertford County Hospital, North Road, Hertford, Hertfordshire, SG14 1LP
Harpenden Memorial Hospital, Carlton Road, Harpenden, AL5 4TA
St Albans City Hospital, Waverley Road, St. Albans, Hertfordshire, AL3 5PN
Hertfordshire has the M1, A1(M) and M25 motorways running through it and the M11 touches its eastern border at Bishop's Stortford.
Major transport hubs include Watford, Welwyn Garden City, St Albans, Hatfield and Hemel Hempstead - all their railway stations offer fast, direct connections to London termini. Two international airports are just outside the borders - Stansted and Luton.
Distance to Airports from Hertfordshire (Hertford)
| Airport | Miles by car |
| Luton | 19.1 miles |
| Stansted | 21.2 miles |
| Heathrow | 37.9 miles |
Hockerill Anglo-European College, Dunmow Rd, Bishop's Stortford CM23 5HX
Parmiter's School, High Elms Ln, Watford WD25 0UU
Beaumont School, Oakwood Dr, St Albans AL4 0XB
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 Hertfordshire
Our Hertfordshire conveyancing solicitors can help you with your conveyance locally or in any of the surrounding areas, including Aylesbury, High Wycombe, Luton, Biggleswade, Saffron Walden, March and Epping.
We have many offices throughout England and Wales, so you can find a solicitor near you.
- Bushey Hall Park Bushey Hall Drive, Bushey, Hertfordshire WD23 2GE
- 7 Rodgers Close, Elstree, Borehamwood, Hertfordshire WD6 3HN
- 48 Vale Road, Bushey, Hertfordshire. WD23 2HE
- 171 Windmill Road, Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire. HP2 4BY
- 19 Mercia Road, Baldock, Hertfordshire, SG7 6RZ
- Pinnacle House (studio apartment) – Home Park, Mill Link Road, Kings Langley, Hertfordshire WD4.
Marketed by Galliard Homes.
Hertfordshire Property Prices
| Average property price in Hertfordshire | £537,705 |
| Population of Hertfordshire | 1,154,800 (2014) |
Local conveyancing solicitor
Are online licensed conveyancing solicitors better than property lawyers near me?
Before the internet, finding licensed conveyancing solicitors in Hertfordshire would have meant to consult your local phone book or just to take a walk down your local high street to find your conveyancer near me.
Before modern ID checking processes your local conveyancing solicitors would need to meet with you to confirm who you were as part of their money laundering and 'Know Your Client' checks. Solicitors previously used to use this time to talk through the transaction with you in person - a part of the service that was reflected within their conveyancing solicitors fees. Nowadays, the legal process can be completed without face to face meetings, using online ID checks and new ID process.
Although local knowledge becomes critical when choosing your RICS surveyor for a home buyers survey, your solicitor in all cases, whether they're a 'conveyancing solicitor near me' or based 200 miles away will carry out their work by processing documents and forms, virtually all of which can be obtained and/or transmitted electronically.
There is no need for them to be based locally and you'll usually find that conveyancer near me will charge extra for business conducted 'in person' - such as ID checking - and that their time is better spent focusing on the paperwork. We welcome queries from our clients and act as the vital link between you and your solicitor which means you're kept in the loop and your solicitor is fully engaged in getting your move completed as quickly and efficiently as possible.
Why choose SAM Conveyancing Solicitors in Hertfordshire?
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 Hertfordshire has to offer, which are backed by a no sale no fee guarantee and the Hertfordshire 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 Hertfordshire 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 Hertfordshire - speak to Hertfordshire County Council to find out if you are eligible
- Discount Market Sale Hertfordshire - check with Hertfordshire County Council if they are running a DMS scheme
Hertfordshire conveyancing solicitors
You can rest assured that you're in good hands with our Hertfordshire Conveyancing Solicitors. They are skilled and experienced with complex property transactions from a simple purchase for a property in Hertfordshire to a Sale and Purchase of a shared ownership property, executing a Deed of Trust simultaneously.
Is the property over 5 storeys (11m)?
Many leasehold properties in Hertfordshire are in large buildings which now require an EWS1 certificate to confirm if the cladding is fire safe. Thankfully 2022's leaseholder protections mean that most leaseholders are not burdened with the cost of remediation of any defective cladding, but you will need to see the seller's Deed of Certificate to prove that the lease doesn't come with a nasty (and expensive) surprise.
Be particularly wary of purchasing a share of freehold as the freeholders may become liable for the cost of remedying defective cladding. Our specialist leasehold solicitors Hertfordshire are well experienced with handling all of these added complications, so you will be in safe hands with SAM. Property Challenges Solved.
Conveyancing FAQs: Property Lawyers Hertfordshire
Hertfordshire is commonly abbreviated to the name Herts and is a county located in the south of England. It is bordered by Bedfordshire to the north, Cambridgeshire to the north-east, Essex to the east, Buckinghamshire to the west and Greater London to the south (it is classed as a 'Home County' for this reason). The county town of Hertfordshire is Hertford.
Hertfordshire has 3 motorways running through it - the M1, the M25 and the A1(M). It is particularly associated with new towns as it contains 5 in total: Stevenage, Welwyn Garden City, Hemel Hempstead, Hatfield and Letchworth. There are two airports just outside Hertfordshire's borders: Luton and Stansted. It also has a university, the University of Hertfordshire, which is in Hatfield. There are a number of independent schools in the area, including, for example, Haileybury (Turnford), St George's Harpenden, Haberdasher's Aske's (Elstree) and Berkhamsted.
For random facts, St Alban, who gave his name to the same city in the county, was the earliest British saint - he was reputed to have been beheaded where the cathedral now stands. In addition to that, Sele Mill, near Hertford. was the site of the first paper mill in Britain, established in about 1488.
**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?
Hertfordshire 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
Can you sell your property privately or using the internet?
You can sell your property in any way you choose but we advise you always to check the various costs involved and carefully to compare prices and what service you can expect for your money.
You should note that a traditional estate agent may expect you to pay a fee even if they don't manage to sell your property. It's always worth carefully inspecting the terms of your agreement before you go ahead and in particular you should note whether you have to give a notice period before terminating your agreement.
