Conveyancing solicitors in Shrewsbury

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

If you are buying a detached house in Shrewsbury, selling a terraced house in Telford, downsizing to a bungalow in Uffington, or buying to let in Shelton, we can help you with your conveyancing.

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

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 Shrewsbury, drainage and water fees in Shropshire 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 Shrewsbury. 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 Shropshire 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 Shrewsbury?

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

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 Shrewsbury - 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 Shrewsbury

There isn't really any such thing as online conveyancing. Clients come to us for conveyancing in Shrewsbury, Telford, Shelton 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 Shrewsbury

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

Fees for conveyancing in Shrewsbury

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 Shrewsbury.

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 Shrewsbury

Shrewsbury is the county town of Shropshire, West Midlands, England. It is situated on the River Severn, and has an approximate population of 72,000.
The town is renown for its history. It is a market town whose centre has a largely unaltered medieval street plan, with a whopping 660 listed buildings, the majority of which display examples of timber framing from the 15th and 16th centuries. Notable examples of this include Shrewsbury Castle, a red sandstone fortification, and Shrewsbury Abbey, a former Benedictine monastery

Because of this, Shrewsbury has a strong tourist base, who visit for both the history and the retail. Being less than 10 miles from the Welsh border, Shrewsbury acts as a strong retail base for both Staffordshire and a good amount of Wales. There are four shopping centres, such as Pride Hill, and the largest, Darwin, which accommodates over 50 stores. There are also further development projects in place for the future.

The town has an overall retail output of over £299 million a per year, and the visitor economy is worth over £115 million.

Aside from tourism and retail, other notable parts of the local economy include light industry, which is based at areas such as Battlefield Enterprise Park. Whilst not as large as Burton on Trent, Shrewsbury has always had a large contingent of breweries.

Shrewsbury has a really strong sense of culture, not just in its architecture, but in its media, arts and literature. It is also home to Shrewsbury School, one of the country's leading public schools. Set up in 1552, notable alumni include musician Tim Booth, cricketer James Taylor, and Christopher Booker, the founder of Private Eye.

In terms of transport, Shrewsbury railway station is one of the main facilities, and provides frequent services to the likes of Chester, Wrexham General, Birmingham International, Cardiff Central, Manchester Piccadilly and London Euston.

Main roads in the area include the A5, the A53, the A49 and the A458.