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Selling property in Sunderland
Your expert conveyancing solicitor's role when selling a property in Sunderland, 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 Sunderland conveyancing solicitors' cost for selling a property starts from £723 INC VAT.
Why buy a home in Sunderland?
Sunderland is a city in the Tyne and Wear region of Northern England. Landmarks include the Echo 24 apartment building, the Sunderland Marina and The Bridges shopping centre. Sunderland has its own university - the University of Sunderland - and a prominent football team - Sunderland Football Club - whose ground is at the Stadium of Light.
There are many attractions here, such as the National Glass Centre in Liberty Way, which has many contemporary exhibitions, and the Sunderland Museum and Winter Gardens, which has an excellent local history and botanical collection.
Sunderland Royal Hospital, Kayll Road, Sunderland, SR4 7TP
Monkwearmouth Hospital, Newcastle Road, Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, SR5 1NB
South Tyneside District Hospital, Harton Lane, South Shields, Tyne and Wear, NE34 0PL
Sunderland Railway Station offers connections to a wide variety of destinations, including Newcastle Airport, London Kings Cross, Middlesbrough, Liverpool, Darlington, York, Leeds and Carlisle. By road, the A1(M) is within easy reach of the west of the city and there are a number of trunk roads emanating out of the city to other urban destinations.
Distance to Airports from Sunderland
| Airport | Miles by car |
| Newcastle | 19.7 miles |
| Durham | 33 miles |
| Leeds | 87 miles |
Whitburn Church of England Academy, Whitburn, Sunderland, SR6 7EF
St Aidan's Catholic School, Willow Bank Road, Ashbrooke, Sunderland, SR2 7HJ
Castle View Enterprise Academy, Cartwright Road, Sunderland, SR5 3DX
Residential Conveyancing Solicitors in and around Sunderland
Our Sunderland conveyancing solicitors can help you with your conveyance locally or in any of the surrounding areas, including Dalton-le-Dale, Houghton le Spring, New Herrington, Cleadon, Whitburn, West Boldon and East Boldon.
We have many offices throughout England and Wales, so you can find a solicitor near you.
- Fordfield Rd, Sunderland, Tyne and Wear SR4 0EW
- 46 Moorside Road, Sunderland, Tyne and Wear SR3 2RS
- 13 Washington Rd, Sunderland, Tyne and Wear SR5 3LJ
- 22 Atkinson Rd, Sunderland, Tyne and Wear SR6 9AT
- 68 Suffolk Street, Sunderland, Tyne and Wear SR2 8AX
- Forge Court (houses) – Neville Road Pallion Sunderland SR4 6PL
Built by Gleeson Homes.
Sunderland Property Prices
| Average property price in Sunderland | £166,144 |
| Population of Sunderland | 174,286 (2011) |
Local conveyancing solicitor
Are local, licensed conveyancing solicitors near me more expensive?
Local or high street property lawyers' costs can often be more than those of online conveyancing solicitors. They may handle less cases or be working on a referral arrangement with a local estate agent.
We provide local services, nationally, online, so you get the best of both.
Why choose SAM Conveyancing Solicitors in Sunderland?
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 Sunderland has to offer, which are backed by a no sale no fee guarantee and the Sunderland 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 Sunderland 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 Sunderland - speak to Sunderland City Council to find out if you are eligible
- Discount Market Sale Sunderland - check with Sunderland City Council if they are running a DMS scheme
Sunderland conveyancing solicitors
You can rest assured that you're in good hands with our Sunderland Conveyancing Solicitors. They are skilled and experienced with complex property transactions from a simple purchase for a property in Sunderland 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 Sunderland?
If there are 80 years or less on the Sunderland leasehold, it will be harder to mortgage. Whether you're buying or selling, you should consider extending the lease, which may be done before, during, or in some cases after the transaction.
Our specialist leasehold conveyancing solicitors have vast experience handling the extension of a short lease for the buyer or the seller in Sunderland; speak to a SAM advisor for inclusive, fixed fee, conveyancing quotes for leasehold conveyancing or share of freehold conveyancing today. Property Challenges Solved.
Conveyancing FAQs: Property Lawyers Sunderland
Tyne and Wear is a metropolitan county which came into existence in 1974. It is made up of 5 metropolitan boroughs; South Tyneside, North Tyneside, the City of Newcastle upon Tyne, Gateshead and the City of Sunderland. Adjacent counties include Northumberland and County Durham. Prior to 1974, the county's area straddled the River Tyne, with the north side in Northumberland and the south side in Durham.
The most populated area in the county is the city of Newcastle upon Tyne, which used to be synonymous with shipbuilding. Among many places of interest in the county are Antony Gormley's famous 'Angel of the North' statue and the Beamish Museum (both in Gateshead), Hadrian's Wall, Jesmond Dene Park, The Biscuit Factory and the Laing Art Gallery (all in Newcastle), Segedunum Roman Fort & Museum, Wallsend and St Mary's Island bird reserve (all in North Tyneside) and the Museum and Winter Gardens in Sunderland.
There are 2 motorways in the county, the A1(M) and A194(M) and numerous trunk roads. The main transport hub is Newcastle, which offers fast, direct railway services to London King's Cross (duration around 3 hours) and many other major conurbations.
Coal was discovered in the area in 1234 and Newcastle became the first coal port in the world. The Gateshead Millennium Bridge in Gateshead is the first rotating bridge ever built in the world. Italian Revolutionary Giuseppe Garibaldi lived in Tyneside for a few months on his way to foment the Italian irredentist movement. He lived in Tynemouth and Blaydon, and the garibaldi biscuit was invented by local bakers to commemorate his stay!
**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?
Sunderland 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 pull out after exchange of contracts?
In simple terms, you can pull out after exchange of contracts, whether you're a buyer or a seller, but the law in England and Wales treats these sides very differently.
As a buyer, you can only exchange if you've transferred your deposit monies into the seller's solicitor's account. This is normally 10% of the property's selling price, although a lower percentage can be agreed with the seller. If you pull out, you stand to lose 10% of the selling price under the law, even if you paid over an agreed deposit of less than 10%. The seller can also sue for losses resulting from the breach of contract.
As a seller, you could be sued for losses resulting from breach of contract. So, from a buyer's perspective, they might sue the seller for items like mortgage costs (product fee, valuation fee, etc.), survey costs and any deposit paid over for removals.
Therefore there are consequences for pulling out after exchange of contracts, however these clearly fall more heavily on the buyer pulling out rather than the seller.
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