title deed costs

PIPIE


Joined: 05/01/2008
Posts: 5499

Message Posted:
09/03/2009 11:08

We have been told out title deeds are in sight for our property , we were under the impression that monies we paid for purchase of property included this in our £1, 200 fee to advocate , now he says he want extra for transfer of deeds .

My question is what did readers pay solicitors to handle there purchase ?



And what did that fee include ?

kavenkoy


Joined: 10/04/2008
Posts: 1787

Message Posted:
09/03/2009 12:07

yes pipie



i think we have all been "seduced " by our advocates .



kav

scoobydoo


Joined: 10/11/2008
Posts: 2434

Message Posted:
09/03/2009 14:55

'seduced' , nicely put, tell us something new, i guess we have all been caught

fire starter


Joined: 19/06/2008
Posts: 3401

Message Posted:
09/03/2009 15:04

hi pipie

yes you still have to pay the advocate for the transfer,( extra cost).

we did all ours ourselves but you will need a week and a tc friend to get it sorted.

tigger


Joined: 25/01/2009
Posts: 43

Message Posted:
09/03/2009 16:43

Hi Pipie

Same for us we thought the fee we paid our advocate covered start to finish but now they are asking for £400 to transfer deeds. As for cost we paid £600 as we got a so called special half price deal then another £250 was requested when the new rules came out last year to re-register the contracts on top of this is bank transfer charges every time. All in all it starts to add up.

We just pray for the day when its all sorted.

Tigger

Cruella


Joined: 16/05/2008
Posts: 63

Message Posted:
09/03/2009 16:53

As a Medview owner I will never have the problem of paying my advocate more money for my title deeds, Medview will never pay the tax that we paid them on purchase and thats if they have not mortgaged the land, so if anyone can do a DIY house purchase do it because having an advocate gives you no safe guard or protection what so ever!

pjnxi



Joined: 12/02/2009
Posts: 167

Message Posted:
09/03/2009 17:45

Deeds and all Solicitors fee £8,900 john

stevemac


Joined: 21/07/2008
Posts: 99

Message Posted:
09/03/2009 17:50

Yes, I agree about DIY purchase. The information is readily available, we can do searches, transfers,PTP ourselves. Lets face it, most of us wouldn't be in the position we're in now if our lawyers had been acting professionally and in our best interests. As BARO admitted, the lawyers her have no duty of care, so why pay extortionate amounts of money to be ripped off by teh vast majority of unscrupulous ones.

PIPIE


Joined: 05/01/2008
Posts: 5499

Message Posted:
09/03/2009 18:19

But i did think that there was a level of fees that solicitor/advocate were guided by even in N/C ,