Conveyancing solicitors in Southend On Sea

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

If you are buying a detached house in Southend-On-Sea, selling a terraced house in Prittlewell, downsizing to a bungalow in Westcliff-On-Sea, or buying to let in Thorpe Bay, we can help you with your conveyancing.

Why should you use Bird and Co Solicitors for your conveyancing in Southend-On-Sea?

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 Southend-On-Sea, 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 Southend-On-Sea. 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 Southend-On-Sea?

In the old days you used your local solicitor. You would visit their office in the centre of Southend-On-Sea, 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 Southend-On-Sea 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 Southend-On-Sea - 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 Southend-On-Sea

There isn't really any such thing as online conveyancing. Clients come to us for conveyancing in Southend-On-Sea, Prittlewell, Thorpe Bay 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 Southend-On-Sea

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

Fees for conveyancing in Southend-On-Sea

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 Southend-On-Sea.

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 Southend-On-Sea

Southend-On-Sea, more colloquially know as just Southend, is a seaside town and borough in Essex, on the north side of the Thames, being just 40 miles east of central London. It has a population of 177,931 according to the 2011 census.

The town is particularly renown for its pier, being the longest leisure pier in the world, at around 2 kilometres long. Because of this, the town can benefit massively from tourism. The town went into decline in the 1960s as a holiday destination, and has since then developed as a centre for commerce and retail. Despite this, facilities such as the pier still allow for a high influx of tourism, and around 6.4 million visit Southend every year, generating around £200 million.

Tourists may also attend many other attractions in the town, such as the Focal Point Gallery, which is South Essex's gallery for contemporary visual art, The Palace Theatre and the Cliffs Pavilion are popular theatrical venues also.

Roots Hall, the home of Southend United, the towns only professional football team, is also a popular destination amongst both residents and visitors, with a capacity of around 12,000. The team were recently promoted through play offs in the 2014/15 season and now play in the Football League One. Essex County Cricket Club also play in Southend for one week each season.

Aside tourism, the town generates revenue through commerce, with the shopping hubs being Southend High Street, as well as the two shopping centres; The Victoria, and The Royals. There is also a farmers' market on the second and fourth Saturdays of the month, and regular vintage fairs and markets, held at locations such as The Kursaal.

In terms of education, there are six co-educational secondary schools, four grammar schools, and two Roman Catholic Schools. The University of Essex established a campus in Southend, which accommodates around 10,000 students.

Two A-roads connect Southend with London and the rest of England; the A127 and the A13, which runs through Tilbury and The London Docklands. The town is also served by two National Rail Lines; the Liverpool Street Line which runs from Southend Victoria and offers services to areas such as London Liverpool Street and Stratford.}

There is also an airport, London Southend, which was originally built as a military airport but now offers flights across Europe, as well as corporate and recreational flights.