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Selling property in Widnes
Your expert conveyancing solicitor's role when selling a property in Widnes, 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 Widnes conveyancing solicitors' cost for selling a property starts from £723 INC VAT.
Why buy a home in Widnes?
Widnes is an industrial town in Cheshire and was historically classed as being in Lancashire. It's on the north bank of the River Mersey. Its development from being a fairly small settlement was marked after John Hutchinson established a chemical factory in Spike Island, in the later period of the Industrial Revolution. The town is still associated with chemical manufacture although much of its employment is now given over to the service sector. The industrial jobs created in its Victorian expansion were frequently filled by Polish, Irish and Lithuanian immigrant labour.
Landmarks and attractions include the Grade II listed Silver Jubilee Bridge to Runcorn, opened in 1961, Victoria Promenade at West Bank, Spike Island (now an open recreation area leading to footpaths along the former towpath of the Sankey Canal and the Catalyst Science Discovery Centre). It is, of course, also particularly known for its Widnes Viking Rugby League Football Club, which has won numerous pieces of silverware, both nationally and internationally, over the years.
Highfield Hospital, Highfield Road, Widnes, Cheshire, WA8 7DJ
Halton General Hospital, Hospital Way, Runcorn, Cheshire, WA7 2DA
Whiston Hospital, Warrington Road, Prescot, Merseyside, L35 5DR
Widnes is on the A562 and A563, and both the M56 and M62 are within easy reach to connect to the wider motorway network. Widnes has two railway stations, Hough Green and Widnes, which connect to Liverpool, Manchester, Stockport, Sheffield and Norwich. To access London, the quickest way is to cross the bridge and go to Runcorn Station, which offers frequent direct trains to London Euston.
Distance to Airports from Widnes
| Airport | Miles by car |
| Liverpool John Lennon Airport | 26 miles |
| Manchester Airport | 36.1 miles |
| Hawarden Airport | 27 miles |
Wade Deacon High School, Birchfield Rd, Widnes WA8 7TD
Saints Peter and Paul Catholic College, Highfield Rd, Widnes WA8 7DW
Ormiston Chadwick Academy, Liverpool Rd, Widnes WA8 7HU
Residential Conveyancing Solicitors in and around Widnes
Our Widnes conveyancing solicitors can help you with your conveyance locally or in any of the surrounding areas, including Runcorn, Warrington, Hale, Tarbock Green, Liverpool, Huyton and Rainhall.
We have many offices throughout England and Wales, so you can find a solicitor near you.
- Dorothea Crescent, WA8 3AH
- Malahide Court, WA8 9SF
- Stone Cross Drive, WA8 9DL
- Brookside Cottage, WA5 4BY
- Old Liverpool Road, WA5 1BT
- Fairfield Gardens (houses) – Peel House Lane, Widnes, Cheshire WA8 6TR.
Developed by Miller Homes.
Widnes Property Prices
| Average property price in Widnes | £196,188 |
| Population of Widnes | 60,211 (2011) |
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 Widnes?
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 Widnes has to offer, which are backed by a no sale no fee guarantee and the Widnes 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 Widnes 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 Widnes - speak to Halton Borough Council to find out if you are eligible
- Discount Market Sale Widnes - check with Halton Borough Council if they are running a DMS scheme
Widnes conveyancing solicitors
You can rest assured that you're in good hands with our Widnes Conveyancing Solicitors. They are skilled and experienced with complex property transactions from a simple purchase for a property in Widnes 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 Widnes?
We have specialist leasehold conveyancing solicitors in Widnes to handle your sale & purchase of a leasehold property, as well as lease extensions and creation, sale, or purchase of a Widnes 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 Widnes 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 Widnes
Cheshire is a county situated in North West England. Surrounding English counties are Merseyside to the north, Greater Manchester also to the north, Derbyshire to the east, Staffordshire to the south-east, Shropshire to the south and Wales situated to the west.
The unitary authorities are Cheshire East, Cheshire West and Chester, Warrington and Halton. Cheshire County Council was abolished in 2009 which led to the birth of Cheshire East and Cheshire West and Chester. The county town is Chester, which is a walled city, west of Cheshire near the border with Wales.
Cheshire's notable landmarks include Chester Cathedral, Eaton Hall and Little Moreton Hall which is a manor house with wonky architecture. Prehistorical burial grounds have been found in Cheshire at The Bridestones which is a chambered cairn. Cheshire is also home to many remains of Iron Age hill forts that can be visited today.
Cheshire Property Market Reports
- November 2024: 3 of 4 Districts in Cheshire Break Record Property Prices
**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?
Widnes 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.
