Services
We do not do crime, litigation or commercial work. We do the six things most people need a solicitor for in their lives, and we do them at fixed fees quoted on this website, in plain English, with the same person throughout. Each has its own page with what happens, what it costs and who does it.
01
Conveyancing for buying a house or flat anywhere in England and Wales, at a fixed fee you can work out on the prices page: searches, the contract, the lender, Land Transaction Tax, exchange and completion, with one conveyancer and a Friday update every week.
Our fee from £895 plus VAT for a freehold home up to £250,000, with the disbursements (searches about £240, Land Registry from £45) shown separately at cost.
02
Conveyancing for selling: the contract pack out to the buyer's solicitor within a week of instruction, their enquiries answered quickly, your mortgage redeemed, the agent paid and the balance in your account on the day. One conveyancer, and the same Friday update.
Our fee from £795 plus VAT for a freehold home up to £250,000, plus office copies of the title (£7) and the bank transfer (£30).
03
Remortgaging to a new lender, adding or removing someone from the title after a marriage, a separation or a death, and declarations of trust for unequal deposits. Smaller jobs with a fixed fee, done in two to four weeks.
Remortgage £495 plus VAT and the Land Registry fee; transfer of equity £450 plus VAT; declaration of trust £250 plus VAT.
04
A will written by a solicitor, at a fixed fee, in an hour's meeting at our office or your home anywhere in the Vale: who gets what, who looks after the children, who sorts it out, and the things people forget (step-children, the house, a business, the dog). Stored here free.
A single will £195 plus VAT; mirror wills for a couple £295 plus VAT; a trust will or a will with a business or overseas property from £450 plus VAT.
05
The two documents that let the people you choose make decisions for you if you cannot: one for property and money, one for health and care. Drafted by us, the certificate signed here, registered with the Office of the Public Guardian, and explained properly, which is the part the forms do not do.
One LPA £350 plus VAT, both LPAs for one person £550 plus VAT, both for a couple £950 plus VAT.
06
After a death: whether probate is needed at all, the grant of probate at a fixed fee if you will do the rest yourself, or the whole estate administered by us from the first bank letter to the final accounts. Inheritance tax forms, the house sold, the beneficiaries paid, at a percentage you know in advance.
Grant of probate only, simple estate with no inheritance tax, £950 plus VAT and the £300 court fee.
Regulated
Harbour Legal Ltd is authorised and regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority, which is the difference between us and an unregulated will-writer or an online conveyancing factory. Your deposit and your sale proceeds sit in a client account the SRA inspects, separate from our own money; we carry professional indemnity insurance of several million pounds; if we got something wrong there is the Legal Ombudsman and the SRA compensation fund. The Law Society's Conveyancing Quality Scheme accreditation is what every lender on the high street requires before they will let a firm act on their mortgage, and we have held it since 2014.
The calculator on the prices page gives the fixed fee for buying, selling or both, with the disbursements and the Land Transaction Tax. Send the quote form and the same figure comes back in writing within the working day, with the name and direct line of the person who will do the work.
