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Selling property in York
Your expert conveyancing solicitor's role when selling a property in York, 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 York conveyancing solicitors' cost for selling a property starts from £723 INC VAT.
Why buy a home in York?
York is a beautiful historic walled city in North Yorkshire, in Yorkshire County and was founded by the Romans in 71 AD. Landmarks and attractions include York Minster, the largest Gothic cathedral in Northern Europe, and Barley Hall, a reconstructed medieval house, among many others. York has two universities, the University of York and York St John University.
The York Hospital, Wigginton Road, York, North Yorkshire YO31 8HE
White Cross Rehabilitation Hospital, White Cross Road, Wilson Drive, Huntington Road, York, North Yorkshire YO31 8JR
St Monica's Hospital, Long Street, Easingwold, York, North Yorkshire YO61 3JD
York Railway Station is on the East Coast Main Line and has many direct services to London. There are also connections to many other urban centres. The A1(M), the M62 and the M1 are within easy reach for road travellers.
Distance to Airports from York
| Airport | Miles by car |
| Leeds | 28.7 miles |
| Doncaster Sheffield | 44.9 miles |
| Manchester | 81.4 miles |
Queen Ethelburga's College, Thorpe Underwood Hall, Thorpe Green Ln, York YO26 9SS
Huntington School, Huntington Rd, York YO32 9WT
York High School, Cornlands Road, York YO24 3WZ
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 York
Our York conveyancing solicitors can help you with your conveyance locally or in any of the surrounding areas, including Knapton, Askham Bryan, Bishopthorpe, Murton, Haxby, Somerford Keynes and Brockfield.
We have many offices throughout England and Wales, so you can find a solicitor near you.
- Huntington Rd, City Centre, York YO31 9BP
- 14 Clifton, York YO30 6BQ
- 66 Brockfield Park Dr, York YO31 9ER
- 16 Lendal, York YO1 8DA
- 47 Front St, York YO24 3BR
- Hungate (apartment) - Off Garden Place/Carmelite Street, York.
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York Property Prices
| Average property price in York | £350,374 |
| Population of York | 200,018 (2012) |
Local conveyancing solicitor
Local conveyancing solicitor, property lawyer or licensed conveyancer?
When you search for licensed conveyancing solicitors near me, you may well wonder about the title of the legal professional you're looking to hire. Would property lawyers in York be more appropriate? How about just 'conveyancer near me'?
Day-to-day, the vast majority of legal tasks required for a house move are carried out by several different people termed 'paralegals' and/or 'property conveyancers'. These terms refer to the fact that these professionals do not have formal membership - and qualifications - required to be either a solicitor, licensed conveyancer or legal executive.
Many of these individuals have many years of experience and keep your costs down by skilfully completing work at a lower rate than the solicitor who oversees the case, takes ultimate responsibility and signs-off the work.
In contrast, a qualified solicitor acting in the conveyancing field has the general training that a solicitor has - e.g. in employment law - but has chosen to specialise in conveyancing. They have to be a member of the Law Society in order to practise.
Why choose SAM Conveyancing Solicitors in York?
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 York has to offer, which are backed by a no sale no fee guarantee and the York 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 York 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 York - speak to City of York Council to find out if you are eligible
- Discount Market Sale York - check with City of York Council if they are running a DMS scheme
York conveyancing solicitors
You can rest assured that you're in good hands with our York Conveyancing Solicitors. They are skilled and experienced with complex property transactions from a simple purchase for a property in York 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 York 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 York 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 York
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, 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?
York 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
Should you buy a leasehold property with a short lease?
Leasehold properties with short leases – i.e., anything less than 80 years – can sometimes be found on the market and are normally sold for much less than comparable properties with more than 80 years leases.
You may be tempted to buy such a property, but you should be aware of the following:
- you may find it very difficult to get a lender to provide you with a mortgage to buy the property or to remortgage it;
- if you don't manage to get the lease extended yourself, you may find the property very difficult to sell, and
- if the lease falls below 20 years and you've lived in your property for less than a year, you cannot take the 'formal route' to a lease extension, which means that you cannot ultimately guarantee that you'll get a lease extension
