Conveyancing solicitors in Mendip

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

If you are buying a detached house in Mendip, selling a terraced house in Frome, downsizing to a bungalow in Shepton Mallet, or buying to let in Wells, we can help you with your conveyancing.

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

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 Mendip, drainage and water fees in Somerset 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 Mendip. 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 Somerset 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 Mendip?

In the old days you used your local solicitor. You would visit their office in the centre of Mendip, 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 Mendip or perhaps not even in Somerset.

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 Mendip - 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 Mendip

There isn't really any such thing as online conveyancing. Clients come to us for conveyancing in Mendip, Frome, Wells 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 Mendip

Every local authority is different. We use an excellent, trusted national search provider, which means we can provide searches to clients in Mendipand 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 Mendip. 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 Mendip 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 Mendip or away from Mendip to somewhere else, our conveyancing team can help you do so with the minimum of fuss and inconvenience.

Fees for conveyancing in Mendip

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 Mendip.

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 Mendip

Mendip is a local government district in Somerset, southern England. The district covers around 285 square miles of land, ranging from the Mendip Hills to the Somerset Levels. As of Mid-2014, the population of the area is around 110,844.

Like many British Government Districts, Mendip was formed on the 1st April 1974, through a merger of the municipal boroughs of Glastonbury and Wells, as well as the Frome, Shepton Mallet and Street urban districts, and the Frome rural district, Shepton Mallet rural district, Wells rural district and part of the Axbridge rural district and part of the Clutton Rural District.

Whilst Shepton Mallet is the administrative centre of the district, Frome is the largest town in terms of population, by quite a significant way- it is over double the population of Shepton Mallet. Consequently, it acts as the economic hub for the area. There are significant metal-working and printing works in the town, as well as a number of independent shops and chain stores. On top of this, there are a total of five supermarkets in the town, which easily serve the population's needs.

Because of this localised economy, the town receives a large amount of commuters: approximately 2,700 per day.

In terms of transport, there are four major A roads in the area: the A37 which provides links to Bristol and Yeovil, the A361, the A371 which provides links to Wincanton and Weston-super-Mare and the A39 which provides services to Bath and Bridgwater.

Frome railway station is the area's principal station, and is served by First Great Western. It provides direct connections to areas such as London Paddington and Taunton.