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Selling property in Prescot
Your expert conveyancing solicitor's role when selling a property in Prescot, 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 Prescot conveyancing solicitors' cost for selling a property starts from £723 INC VAT.
Why buy a home in Prescot?
Prescot is a town in Merseyside, England, located around thirteen kilometres from the city centre of Liverpool. Its famous tourist spots include the Prescot Museum - a Georgian building featuring the town's clock-making history. Tourists are also able to attend the yearly 10-day Prescot Festival of Music and the Arts. For sports enthusiasts, Valerie Park offers football grounds, while Knowsley Safari Park caters to cricket games.
Whiston Hospital, Warrington Rd, Rainhill, Prescot L35 5DR
Broadgreen Hospital, Thomas Dr, Liverpool L14 3LB
St Helens Hospital, Marshalls Cross Rd, Saint Helens WA9 3DA
Prescot is the starting point of the A58 road, which leads to Wetherby. Rail transportation in town is done through the Prescot Railway Station and the Eccleston Railway Station, which is located in nearby Eccleston.
Distance to Airports from Prescot
| Airport | Miles by car |
| Liverpool | 10.1 miles |
| Manchester | 31.7 miles |
| Leeds Bradford | 70.5 miles |
The Prescot School, Knowsley Park Ln, Prescot L34 3NB
Prescot Primary School, Maryville Rd, Prescot L34 2TA
Whiston Willis Primary Academy, Milton Ave, Whiston, Prescot L35 2XY
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 Prescot
Our Prescot conveyancing solicitors can help you with your conveyance locally or in any of the surrounding areas, including St Helens, Widnes, Runcorn, Liverpool, Wigan, Southport and Chester.
We have many offices throughout England and Wales, so you can find a solicitor near you.
- Maypole Farm Court, Prescot, Merseyside, L34 9BD
- Gregson Road, Prescot, Merseyside, L35 5DL
- Brookfield Avenue, Prescot, Merseyside, L35 4PX
- Bruton Road, Liverpool, Merseyside, L36 8EE
- Tulip Drive, Liverpool, Merseyside, L36 3AA
- Orchard Park – Liverpool Road, Prescot.
Developed by Taylor Wimpey.
Prescot Property Prices
| Average property price in Prescot | £197,490 |
| Population of Prescot | 38,321 |
Local conveyancing solicitor
What are the Pros and Cons of using a licensed conveyancing solicitor in Prescot?
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 Prescot?
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 Prescot has to offer, which are backed by a no sale no fee guarantee and the Prescot 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 Prescot 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 Prescot - speak to Knowsley Metropolitan Borough Council to find out if you are eligible
- Discount Market Sale Prescot - check with Knowsley Metropolitan Borough Council if they are running a DMS scheme
Prescot conveyancing solicitors
You can rest assured that you're in good hands with our Prescot Conveyancing Solicitors. They are skilled and experienced with complex property transactions from a simple purchase for a property in Prescot 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 Prescot?
We have specialist leasehold conveyancing solicitors in Prescot to handle your sale & purchase of a leasehold property, as well as lease extensions and creation, sale, or purchase of a Prescot 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 Prescot 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 Prescot
Merseyside is a metropolitan county in North West England and includes the metropolitan boroughs of Sefton, Wirral, Knowsley, St Helens, Birkenhead and the city of Liverpool. Adjacent counties include Lancashire, Cheshire and Greater Manchester. It's divided into 2 parts by the Mersey Estuary, with the Wirral on the west side of the estuary and rest on the east side. Linking the two sides are two Mersey Tunnels, the Mersey Ferry and the Mersey Railway.
There are two main motorways passing through the region, the M62, which connects Merseyside to various conurbations on an east-west axis, including Manchester, Halifax and Leeds, and the M6 which passes to the east of the region. There are number of spur motorways in addition.
Merseyside hosts the international John Lennon Airport. There are 3 universities in the county: the University of Liverpool, a member of the prestigious Russell Group of Universities, the Liverpool John Moores University and Liverpool Hope University. Merseyside also hosts a number of prominent football teams, including Liverpool, Everton and Tranmere Rovers.
Liverpool City has many attractions including the Cavern Club, the Albert Dock for Art, the Anglican Cathedral, the Catholic Cathedral (known locally as the Wigwam because of its shape), Pier Head and the Mersey Tunnels. Knowsley has a Safari Park. St Helens has its excellent World of Glass Museum - it has very strong associations with Pilkington's glass works. Sefton is the host of Aintree Racecourse, where the yearly Grand National horse race is run and Wirral hosts Port Sunlight and Wirral Country Park.
**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?
Prescot 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 need to get chancel repair liability insurance?
If you're buying a property using a mortgage, your lender invariably expects you to take out chancel repair liability insurance or to buy a search which reveals whether there is a chancel liability for your property.
Both the insurance and the search mentioned perform the same task: protecting you from having a liability to contribute towards the repair of the local church roof.
This is likely to strike people previously unaware of this. A very odd but well-publicised case in recent years involved a home buyer receiving a demand for almost £100,000. The purchaser contested the sum and ended up being billed for £350,000 when legal costs were added.
The chance of this happening has resulted in mortgage lenders insisting that purchasers take action to ward off chancel repair claims. It is also a good reason for cash buyers to consider taking protective action.
