Can you recommend a solicitor?

[adrian]

We're moving house and need a conveyancing solicitor. We need to move relatively quickly, as we're having another baby in September So ideally we'd like to instruct someone that uses email and the telephone (unlike the one we used previously). They'd also be reasonably reasonable - the one recommended by the [spits] estate agents charges around £900 + VAT for both the sale of ours and the purchase of the new place (in Bromley). We must be able to do better than that!

All suggestions gratefully received

[Grahame]

Not the cheapest, but she is thorough and very good (you are probably spending more than 1/4 million on the new place, so why worry about a few hundred quid to get things right?). We've used Felicity Williams at [url=http://www.knocker-foskett.co.uk/Our-People]Knocker and Foskett[/url] in Sevenoaks for our last 3 moves.

She's so good at getting things done that she is known in our family (Josie and I, her sister and her parents have all used her for conveyancing) as "The Felicitor". I'd certainly much rather have her acting for me then risk her acting for the other party if anything got at all "non-standard" in the deals. She also keeps in touch regularly to let you know what's happening (I know Sean got very frustrated with his solicitor's lack of communication in his last house purchase).

[Rob C]

Mcmillan Williams seemed to be pretty ok to us, cost about £1200 all in to buy and sell. Purchase was drawn out but that was vendors fault...

[adrian]

Thanks for the replies, chaps. In the end we went for a firm on Anerley Hill that was recommended by two separate people. So far so good – dropped all our documents off there this morning and they’d emailed me back before I’d even made it into work.

Grahame, you’re a Bromley man, are ye no’?

[Mike I]

[quote="adrian"]...ideally we'd like to instruct someone that uses email and the telephone...

[Grahame]

[quote="adrian"]

Grahame, you’re a Bromley man, are ye no’?