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Selling property in Wakefield
Your expert conveyancing solicitor's role when selling a property in Wakefield, 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 Wakefield conveyancing solicitors' cost for selling a property starts from £723 INC VAT.
Why buy a home in Wakefield?
Wakefield is a city in West Yorkshire, around 185 miles north-west of London. Prominent landmarks and attractions here include Wakefield Cathedral, the tallest spire in Yorkshire, the Crown Court, St John's North and South Parade, dating from the Georgian period and Lawe Hill in Clarence Park.
Pinderfields Hospital, Aberford Rd, Wakefield, WF1 4DG
Fieldhead Hospital, Ouchthorpe Ln, Wakefield, WF1 3SP
Clayton Hospital, Northgate, Wakefield, West Yorkshire, WF1 1HE
Wakefield has two main railway stations. Wakefield Westgate has links to London King's Cross, Leeds, Doncaster, Edinburgh, Birmingham and the South West.
Wakefield Kirkgate provides connections to more local urban centres, such as Barnsley, Sheffield, Castleford and Nottingham. Leeds Bradford International Airport is 19 miles away and by road, the M1, M62 and A1(M) are within easy reach.
Distance to Airports from Wakefield
| Airport | Miles by car |
| Leeds | 22.7 miles |
| Doncaster Sheffield | 37.1 miles |
| Manchester | 47.9 miles |
Queen Elizabeth Grammar School, 154 Northgate, Wakefield, WF1 3QY
Wakefield Girls High School, 1 Wentworth St, Wakefield, WF1 2QS
St Thomas à Becket Catholic Secondary School, Barnsley Rd, Wakefield, WF2 6EQ
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 Wakefield
Our Wakefield conveyancing solicitors can help you with your conveyance locally or in any of the surrounding areas, including Newmillerdam, Crofton, Normanton, Lofthouse, Dewsbury, St Mary Cray and Batley.
We have many offices throughout England and Wales, so you can find a solicitor near you.
- Barnsley Rd, Wakefield WF2 6EG
- 98 Stanley Rd, Wakefield WF1 4LR
- 142 Wrenthorpe Rd, Wrenthorpe, Wakefield WF2 0HR
- 203 Dewsbury Rd, Wakefield WF2 9BZ
- 60 Windhill Rd, Wakefield WF1 4SD
- Batley Road (house) – Batley Road, Wakefield, West Yorkshire, WF2.
Marketed by Manning Stainton.
Wakefield Property Prices
| Average property price in Wakefield | £227,431 |
| Population of Wakefield | 76,886 (2001) |
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 Wakefield?
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 Wakefield has to offer, which are backed by a no sale no fee guarantee and the Wakefield 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 Wakefield 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 Wakefield - speak to Wakefield Council to find out if you are eligible
- Discount Market Sale Wakefield - check with Wakefield Council if they are running a DMS scheme
Wakefield conveyancing solicitors
You can rest assured that you're in good hands with our Wakefield Conveyancing Solicitors. They are skilled and experienced with complex property transactions from a simple purchase for a property in Wakefield 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 Wakefield?
We have specialist leasehold conveyancing solicitors in Wakefield to handle your sale & purchase of a leasehold property, as well as lease extensions and creation, sale, or purchase of a Wakefield 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 Wakefield 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 Wakefield
Yorkshire is the largest county in the United Kingdom and it is made up of large subdivisions; North Yorkshire, South Yorkshire, West Yorkshire and East Riding of Yorkshire. They administer their own parts of it, although the whole is still recognised as a cultural region and geographical territory.
The largest city is Leeds, although there are several large-sized cities in the county, such as Sheffield, Huddersfield and Hull and it also contains York, a very beautiful walled city. It is bordered by the counties of Durham, Lincolnshire, Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire, Cheshire, Lancashire and Westmorland.
Yorkshire boasts some wonderful natural areas such as the North York Moors and the Dales National Parks. The Howardian Hills and Nidderdale have been designated as Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty.
Yorkshire County Cricket Club plays at Headingley in Leeds and there are a number of prominent football clubs in the county such as Leeds United, Sheffield United, Sheffield Wednesday and Middlesbrough.
Every Easter Monday, the World Coal Carrying Championship is carried out at Gawthorpe - competitors have to carry a 50kg sack of coal for around 3/4 of a mile!
Yorkshire Property Market Reports
**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?
Wakefield 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 your solicitor exchange within 28 days (New Build)?
It is fairly standard practice for new build developers to put you on notice that you have 28 days within which to exchange and our solicitors are highly experienced in handling this kind of conveyancing.
The solicitors representing the developers will usually pre-package legal work and often you will be permitted to exchange contracts conditionally upon the sale of your own property (if relevant).
If you are in this situation, speak to us as soon as possible on 0207 112 5388 and our solicitors can then work on your behalf to agree a timetable for exchange.
