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Selling property in Reading
Your expert conveyancing solicitor's role when selling a property in Reading, 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 Reading conveyancing solicitors' cost for selling a property starts from £723 INC VAT.
Why buy a home in Reading?
Reading is a large town in Berkshire. It combines excellent shopping and great leisure options with many housing choices. It hosts the University of Reading, the annual Reading Festival (in Little John's Farm on Richfield Avenue) and a number of prominent theatres, including the Hexagon. The town also has 5 Grade I listed buildings, including Reading Abbey and Greyfriars Church.
West Berkshire Community Hospital, London Road, Benham Hill, Thatcham, Berkshire, RG18 3AS
Royal Berkshire Hospital, London Road, Craven Road, Reading, Berkshire, RG1 5AN
The Berkshire Independent Hospital, Swallowscroft, Wensley Road, Reading, Berkshire, RG1 6UZ
Reading Railway Station is a major hub, offering connections to London Paddington, Birmingham, Oxford, Bristol and many other destinations. The M4 runs just to the south of the town (London to Wales) and the A33, heading south, links to the M3, which links London and Portsmouth.
Distance to Airports from Reading
| Airport | Miles by car |
| Heathrow | 26.4 miles |
| Luton | 56.3 miles |
| Southampton | 57.1 miles |
Kendrick School, 41 London Rd, Reading, RG1 5BN
Blessed Hugh Faringdon Catholic School, Fawley Road, Southcote, Reading, RG30 3EP
Maiden Erlegh School, Silverdale Rd, Earley, Reading RG6 7HS
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 Reading
Our Reading conveyancing solicitors can help you with your conveyance locally or in any of the surrounding areas, including Earley, Newbury, Twyford, Wokingham, Pangbourne, Caversham and Bracknell.
We have many offices throughout England and Wales, so you can find a solicitor near you.
- Kentwood Hill, Tilehurst, Reading, RG31 6DL
- Matlock Road, Caversham Heights, Reading, Berkshire, RG4 7BS
- Rotherfield Way, Reading, Berkshire, RG4 8PJ
- Stanbury Gate, Spencers Wood, Reading, RG7 1SR
- Birdhill Avenue, Reading, RG2 7JU
- Reading Gateway (houses) – Church Lane, Three Mile Cross.
Developed by Bewley Homes from our property solicitors Reading.
Reading Property Prices
| Average property price in Reading | £425,127 |
| Population of Reading | 155,700 |
Local conveyancing solicitor
Should I use a Licensed Conveyancer or Conveyancing Solicitor near me?
Solicitors are usually more expensive than a conveyancer, which is fine as long as they specialise in property transactions. It can be beneficial to choose a property lawyer in case of any specialist legal complications with your property transaction, but the best-of-both approach is to instruct a licensed conveyancing solicitor who employs some other conveyancing professionals to complete the simpler parts of the work under their supervision, at a lower rate.
Why choose SAM Conveyancing Solicitors in Reading?
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 Reading has to offer, which are backed by a no sale no fee guarantee and the Reading 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 Reading 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 Reading - speak to Reading Borough Council to find out if you are eligible
- Discount Market Sale Reading - check with Reading Borough Council if they are running a DMS scheme
Reading conveyancing solicitors
You can rest assured that you're in good hands with our Reading Conveyancing Solicitors. They are skilled and experienced with complex property transactions from a simple purchase for a property in Reading 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 Reading 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 Reading 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 Reading
Berkshire is a county which touches a small part of the borders of West London. It is a home county (because it borders Greater London) and is often called Royal Berkshire because it contains Windsor and Windsor Castle. It hosts a number of iconic UK landmarks, such as Ascot (Ascot Racecourse), Wentworth (Golf Course), Sunningdale (Golf Course), Virginia Water, Windsor Great Park and Eton School. Virginia Water was the first postcode area where the average property price exceeded one million.
Like many of the home counties, there are many essentially commuter dormitory settlements which house London workers. Reading (which is Berkshire's county town), in particular, is a larger one and is popular because of its very fast rail links to Central London - there are many one-stop services to London Paddington and it is also due to be the western terminus of the Crossrail line.
Berkshire Property Market Reports
- Febuary 2025: 3 Berkshire Districts Break Property Price PB
- January 2020: Reading's Urban Prices Continue to Rise
**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 and right to buy. Read our No Sale No Fee Policy.
What are the conveyancing costs?
Reading 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
How often should you communicate with your solicitor?
It's a given that conveyancing mainly centres on communications conducted between different solicitor firms acting for both buyer and seller and that you won't need to be in constant communication with your solicitor, who should contact you if there is a pressing need.
That said, you should definitely communicate with your solicitor if something particular is worrying you. Your property searches will show up planning applications lodged within the boundaries of the property you're buying, but let's say, for example, you've your heart set on a view of an open field at the back of the property. You should, in this situation, tell your solicitor to carry out searches against the field to check if there might be plans to build new houses there.
