Conveyancing solicitors in Rochford

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

If you are buying a detached house in Rochford, selling a terraced house in Hawkwell, downsizing to a bungalow in Hockley, or buying to let in Rayleigh, we can help you with your conveyancing.

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

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 Rochford, drainage and water fees in Essex 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 Rochford. 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 Essex 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 Rochford?

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

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 Rochford - 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 Rochford

There isn't really any such thing as online conveyancing. Clients come to us for conveyancing in Rochford, Hawkwell, Rayleigh 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 Rochford

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

Fees for conveyancing in Rochford

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 Rochford.

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 Rochford

Rochford is a local government district in Essex, in the east of England. It has a population of 84,776 as of mid-2014. The majority of this population can be found in the larger towns of Rayleigh, Hockley and Rochford, which have populations of 32,150, 9,616 and 8,471 respectively. The latter is also home to the district's administrative HQ. Other notable areas in the district include Hockley, Ashingdon, Great Wakering, Canewdon and Hullbridge.

The district was formed on the 1st April 1974 through a merger of the Rayleigh Urban District and the Rochford Rural District.

Whilst a large amount of the district's population commute to London, which is just 32 miles away, the local economy is also strong. The population is mainly centered around the service sector, but the coastal location has also helped towns such as Rayleigh develop in the past.

Many of these towns also have a number of sports teams and public sports facilities. For instance, Rayleigh has a golf club, two cricket clubs, and a leisure centre which has a bowling green, four badminton courts, squash courts, a gymnasium and tennis courts.

Rochford also has a leisure centre called Clements Hall amongst other public facilities and amenities, such as Rochford public hospital, which was opened in 2009.
Across the district, the majority of the towns maintain an array of pubs and restaurants.

In terms of transport, the main services are unsurprisingly found in the larger towns. For instance, Rayleigh railway station provides very reliable, frequent services to areas such as Southend Victoria and London Liverpool Street. Rochford railway station is on the same line, and therefore provides similar services.

Major roads in the area include the A127 and the A130.