| Comment | I don't know the full details of what is actually involved, but the solicitor has to pay fees to the Scottish Registers for the process of checking ownership and processing the sale. It's basically all the stuff that makes you the legal owner of the house.
These are all standard fees that are passed straight through to the buyer and should be itemised separately from the legal fees:
Property Search fees, usually £90.00 but dependent upon the property
Registers of Scotland – fee for Advance Notice, £20 inc VAT
Registers of Scotland – fee for Discharge, £70 incl VAT
Then there's usually a small (£20?) electronic transfer fee for processing the cash itself
So if your quote includes those then it's probably fairly typical. |
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