Do I need a local Solicitor to handle my conveyancing - Devizes, Marlborough and Wiltshire?

Do I need a local Solicitor to handle my conveyancing - Devizes

, Marlborough and Wiltshire?

Choosing a Conveyancer is difficult. The illusion of the need to be local is a pressure that need not be.

Nearly all conveyancing is handled through the post, by email and telephone. After all, clients do not want to take time out of their day to visit a lawyer - however friendly we are!

As a result, being local to your conveyancer should not be a priority, as you miss out on some very good conveyancers as a result.

But how to choose a conveyancer then? Well here are15 Top tips:

1. Pick an actual solicitor Firm, whose bricks and mortar address and reputation can be established.

2.Avoid online, 'here today gone tomorrow outfits' as the Home Information Pack companies are a good example of this. Many many people lost money and had work half completed. Such outfits are often not manned by staff who are legally trained. Nightmare. Indeed, such outfits offer cheap headline prices (but then stack on the extras in a 'hidden' fashion) where you may leave your move to chance, and find it hard to obtain redress if things go wrong?

3. Try emailing your chosen firm or firms, and see how prompt they are in coming back to you, as that is good test how efficient they will be during your move it is their chance to impress you and win your business.

4. Look at their website. Look at their purported 'News'. Do they look as though they buy it in from someone else who writes it? If so, do they actually have the skills they say they do?

5. Avoid estate agents who may pressure you to use a Firm of solicitors outside your County - or who say they will arrange for the conveyancer to call you!Often this is because they own a share of the solicitors or they are bound by their Head Office to refer out.

6. Ask the conveyancer to confirm if they are an actual solicitor or a Licencsed conveyancer - in either case with at least 10 yearsproperty experience.

7. Ask the conveyancerto confirm that you will receive the same individual conveyancer throughout, not a conveyor belt of people causing confusion, duplication of work and stress for all.

8. Will your conveyancer be part of a Firm with a good reputation and surrounded by competent fellow lawyers. Or are they a small High Street practice, in a small Team possibly the only real conveyance, and therefore with potential for getting overworked and your move slowing down? Or maybe the opposite being too big and have a factory feel?

9. Will your conveyancer be contactable particularly via their personal email, their direct dial telephone number, and their office does not close for lunch, or dead at 5pm.

10. Do they try and refer you to a website for updates, rather than making a promise to keep you persoanlly informed - by calling you regularly!

11. Look for a guarantee of no hidden charges. By this we mean the conveyancer attempting to charge extra for things that form part of what they should be doing anyway - as part of their normal fee E.g you should never agree to a separate charge for:

a. Filling in a stamp duty form

b. Acting for a Lender

c. Repaying a main mortgage

d. Postage and photocopying

e. Submitting normal conveyancing searches or reading the search results

f. Filling in a stamp duty form

12. Do they have their email address on their letterhead so that other lawyers can keep in touch with them as promptly as possible - or are they in the Dark Ages insisting on letters all the time.

13. Do they have a website and does it:

a. demonstrate they are up to date with technology

b. that they are widely trained as a Firm with regular legal news, articles and guides - ideally in the area of house moving

c. that the Firm has 'Lexcel' accreditation and recommendation of 'The Legal 500' - two Kite Marks that efficient and dedicated solicitor Firm's aspire to

d. identify the people in the conveyancing Team, and your own conveyancer with details about them so you can see for yourself who they are and how experienced they are

14. Read the profiles of the Team of conveyancers on the website and see for yourself how skilled they are.

15. Does the conveyancing Team seem hungry in the market place to win your work and to do a good job - or do they simply promote how 'cheap' they plan to do your work for.

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