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Conveyancing Solicitors in Salcombe

If you are looking for a conveyancing solicitor in Salcombe we can help you. Our conveyancing solicitors offer a convenient, efficient, and friendly conveyancing service to clients in Salcombe, throughout Devon and all over England, Wales and beyond.

If you are buying a detached house in Salcombe, selling a terraced house in Kingsbridge, downsizing to a bungalow in Thurlestone, or buying to let in Totnes, we can help you with your conveyancing.

Why should you use Bird and Co Solicitors for your conveyancing in Salcombe?

We offer a friendly, modern and efficient service. If you want to deal with proper lawyers who are friendly and approachable, our team can help you.

You will have a direct line straight through to your legal team, and direct email addresses. You can guarantee that your query will reach the right people, whether you want to ask about search fees in Salcombe, drainage and water fees in Devon or something else.

"The team always provided me with clear, pragmatic and commercially viable advice with efficient and focused communication."

We're a Conveyancing Quality Scheme accredited firm providing conveyancing to clients in Salcombe. This is a guarantee that our processes and procedures have been approved, that we operate to a certain standard, and is a mark of the excellence of our service approved by the Law Society, the body which represents solicitors throughout England and Wales.

We are on the panel for most major lenders, and many smaller ones too. Whether you want to use your local Building Society in Devon or one of the larger corporates, chances are we have you covered.

In short, you get an excellent conveyancing service at an affordable price. You don't have the risk of going to the cheapest providers, most of whom aren't solicitors; instead you get a great service from proper lawyers.

Why don't you need a conveyancer based in Salcombe?

In the old days you used your local solicitor. You would visit their office in the centre of Salcombe, and all documents would be hand-produced and posted or delivered by hand.

That service came at a price, but the truth is that it is no longer needed. With modern technology such as scanning, emailing and even Skype or Facetime video calls there is no need to use your local solicitor. Your conveyancer can be based anywhere and still provide a great service - even if he or she is in an office many miles away from Salcombe or perhaps not even in Devon.

We have successfully dealt with thousands of conveyancing transactions all over the country, even with clients from the other side of the world. It is not unknown for us to talk to clients outside the UK using Skype, and once we had clients in Thailand talking to us through an interpreter in New Zealand!

There will be no need for you to visit our offices or hand deliver documents. You need never leave Salcombe - our conveyancers will talk you through the process via phone and email, and everything works just as smoothly as it would if we were just down the road.

 

Online Conveyancing in Salcombe

There isn't really any such thing as online conveyancing. Clients come to us for conveyancing in Salcombe, Kingsbridge, Totnes and all sorts of other places, having first found us via our website.

After that, the relationship between you and your conveyancer is the same as any other. We have the same professional obligations towards you, and deal with your conveyancing file in the same way.

It might feel like online conveyancing because you can talk to us through email on your computer, but really it is proper conveyancing.

Search Fees in Salcombe

Every local authority is different. We use an excellent, trusted national search provider, which means we can provide searches to clients in Salcombeand all over the country, knowing that we will get a product we're happy with and which we know is properly insured and protects your interests.

What is the process to instruct us for your conveyancing?

First, fill in our conveyancing quote form for conveyancing in Salcombe. You can find the links at the top of this page.

Our helpful conveyancing support team will then guide you through the initial stages, and once your conveyancing file is opened your Salcombe conveyancing solicitor and their small team will deal with the legal side of the conveyancing transaction. You'll be given direct contact details for your conveyancing lawyers and they'll keep in touch with you every step of the way.

Whether you're moving to Salcombe or away from Salcombe to somewhere else, our conveyancing team can help you do so with the minimum of fuss and inconvenience.

Fees for conveyancing in Salcombe

Our fees are transparent and, so long as the situation does not change (for example so long as your property doesn't turn out to be leasehold when we thought it was freehold) the fee we quote is the fee you will be charged.

We don't add extras on for things like photocopying, postage, or the like. Those are our overheads and we don't pass them on to you.

All our conveyancing fees are dependent on the nature and value of the transaction, so we naturally charge a bit more for more complicated and high value work. However, the fee charged will be the same for a customer in Newcastle as it would be for someone in London, or indeed in Salcombe.

There are some aspects of our conveyancing fees which we can't change. Fees charged by other bodies such as HM Land Registry, or by HMRC for Stamp Duty Land Tax (SDLT) are out of our control.

Introduction to Salcombe

Salcombe is a seaside town in the South Hams district of Devon, in south west England. It is close to the mouth of the Kingsbridge Estuary, and the town itself is based on the steeper side of the estuary, facing East Portlemouth on the other side. Furthermore, the town is situated in the South Devon Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. As of 2011, the town's population is 3,353.

The town and its surrounding area has always been a lucrative fishing area, primarily specialising in shellfish, and this has allowed the town to develop over many years. It stood as an important fort during the English Civil War, and part of the ruins stand on a rocky outcrop just south of the town.

In more recent years, the town has become a very expensive holiday town, with property prices matching parts of Central London. Waterfront houses are currently being sold for anything between £1m and £5m. There are an array of beaches to accommodate the growing tourist trade. The majority of these beaches lie on the otherside of the estuary, however there are also two large beaches on the Salcombe side, known as North and South Sands.

Another major attraction for tourists is the Salcombe Town Regatta and the Salcombe Sailing Regatta. The Sailing Regatta usually occurs the week before, and attracts around 400 dinghies, all competing in different classes. the town regatta consists of a number of different family friendly events, such as a mud-run (involving a race across the mud-flats at low tide), a fun-run, fireworks, a crabbing combetition etc.