Conveyancing Solicitors in Stoke-on-Trent

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

If you are buying a detached house in Stoke-on-Trent, selling a terraced house in Hanley, downsizing to a bungalow in Longton, or buying to let in Burslem, we can help you with your conveyancing.

Why should you use Bird and Co Solicitors for your conveyancing in Stoke-on-Trent?

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 Stoke-on-Trent, drainage and water fees in Staffordshire 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 Stoke-on-Trent. 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 Staffordshire 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 Stoke-on-Trent?

In the old days you used your local solicitor. You would visit their office in the centre of Stoke-on-Trent, 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 Stoke-on-Trent or perhaps not even in Staffordshire.

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 Stoke-on-Trent - 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 Stoke-on-Trent

There isn't really any such thing as online conveyancing. Clients come to us for conveyancing in Stoke-on-Trent, Hanley, Burslem 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 Stoke-on-Trent

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

Fees for conveyancing in Stoke-on-Trent

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 Stoke-on-Trent.

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 Stoke-on-Trent

Stoke on Trent is the 8th largest city in the United Kingdom and the commercial centre for The Potteries and the wider North West Midlands region. The city is located in North Staffordshire, approximately 45.5 km (28.5 miles) south of Manchester, 64 km (40 miles) north of Birmingham and 226 km (141 miles) north west of London. Stoke on Trent has an urban area population of approximately 260,000, increasing to 386,400 within 10 km (6 miles) and 612,000 within
20 km (12 miles).

Stoke on Trent is comprised of six towns, namely Stoke, Burslem, Tunstall, Longton, Fenton and Hanley. Stoke on Trent is the principal commercial centre for Staffordshire and the wider North Midlands region. The city is the centre of the UK’s pottery industry and boasts a strong manufacturing history, hosting world renowned names such as Royal Dalton, Wedgwood and Minton. The town’s strong manufacturing base has now diversified into an established service and distribution economy, which has kept unemployment at consistently low levels and helped maintain a robust local economy.

Hanley is the commercial and administrative centre for the city and is home to major cultural facilities such as The Potteries Museum and Art Gallery, Victoria Hall, Regent Theatre and the studios of BBC Radio Stoke.

Stoke on Trent benefits from an excellent transport infrastructure, with Junctions 15 (3.2 miles) and 16 (6.3 miles) of the M6 motorway located to the west of the city centre (via the A500 dual carriageway) and providing direct access to the national motorway network beyond. In addition, Stoke on Trent Railway Station is located on the West Coast Main Line and provides a frequent, direct, service to London Euston, with a fastest journey time of 1 hour 36 minutes.