What effect does this have? Well, it means that you are not going to lose great deals, or spend extra money executing the deal because your solicitor is so slow the seller gets sick of waiting and pulls out/your solicitor is so unfamiliar with your funding arrangements (such as bridging finance) that your lender decides not to lend/your solicitor charges you through the roof for an expedited exchange/your solicitor is so slow sorting the deal you end up having to pay mortgage payments as you had no time to move the property on before completion etc.

Key Features

• On instruction of a conveyancing transaction, initial documentation is provided online instantly and the firm starts work on your file at once
• Immediate local search ordering is available if you require this (to avoid unnecessary expenses you should ensure you don't order a search it until you are sure the transaction is going to proceed)
• A close working relationship with both client and solicitor means abode can facilitate actions not normally achievable when you only have direct contact with the solicitors
• A knowledge of all types of funding arrangements
• Sympathetic to investors and understand their needs
• Emails and phone calls are always returned, and promptly

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Lady Lea's Unbeatable Tips

• Aim to build a relationship to last with your solicitor - they help you build your empire.
• Send a nice thankyou fax, letter, email when your solicitor performs (this gets your files to the top of the pile).
• Find out bits about them, so that you can chat on a bit more of a personal level - this will make them feel important that you are interested.

History

The conveyancing industry has undergone significant transformation in the last few years, and now with introduction of Home Information Packs in June (2007) there is going to be yet more change. A decade ago, investor conveyancing used to be quite costly, and was priced similarly to estate agents services. More recently however, rising popularity of the Internet as a means of sourcing such services, and improved case management systems, coupled with the increasing rivalry in the form of the licensed conveyancers who can become qualified with a lot less effort than a traditional solicitor (abode only use solicitors) competition has become aggressive.

Although on the face of it, this might appear to be good for the consumer with conveyancing as low as �299, this was often to the considerable detriment of service (this was particularly true in the late 90's and early 00's), and there are usually many hidden extras as firms play on peoples desperation to save an extra �1 anywhere without fully reading the small print. Advertising conveyancing for �299 with terms and conditions (often which people don't understand) means that the true quote is often MUCH higher, in some cases higher than your high street solicitor! Firms charge for a whole plethora of "costs" that should be included in the conveyancing such as dealing with the mortgage lenders conveyancing, filling out the SDLT (Stamp Duty Land Tax) form (which is a 5 minute job for any competent conveyancer), photocopying and telephone calls, and professional indemnity! These are all simply hidden extras, nothing more and nothing less, I mean charging a client, on a routine conveyancing transaction a contribution towards the professional indemnity, please! Additionally a lot of firms will "estimate" the Local Authority Search fees, and all their sales staff are instructed to simply repeat "probably not" or "I shouldn't think so, you'll need to speak to the conveyancer once you've instructed" to any questions from potential clients along the lines of "do you think I will need a mining search", or "this is the total cost isn't it, there won't be any extras added on" when in actual fact they have NO idea, and more often than not, hidden fees are certainly going to be added on!

About abode conveyancing

Since 2002 (so not a fly by night company), abode conveyancing have been facilitating cost effective, efficient, and friendly conveyancing services with NO hidden extras. They have listed almost every conceivable hidden extra as included in their online quote, although they admit unscrupulous Legal firms are coming up with more and more new fees every day. Recently when I spoke to James Metcalf he described abode as being "almost like a second regulatory body for the legal firms concentrating on client care where the Law Society fails to impress". James followed on to say, "often if you deal direct with a solicitors firm, or one of the 'newer' providers, or one that has 're-branded' (usually due to an appalling prior reputation), where, or who can you go to if something starts to goes wrong, or when 'hidden fees' start popping up so late on in the process that you don't want to question them in case it jeopardises your whole transaction? The answer (which many people find out too late and to their detriment) is often unfortunately nowhere, and to no one, and to make matters worse, the Law Society or Council for Licensed Conveyancers are allegedly rarely likely to take any complaint seriously. The Law Society has apparently been known to take up to 9 weeks to even respond to someone, and in this time your transaction has probably fallen through and you'll have already gone through the heartache, bought another property, using another solicitors firm, and written off your wasted conveyancing fees -useless! The reason is this: you and/or your new or 're-branded' referral company have no real influence within the firm, and the more fuss you kick up, the further down the firms uncontrollably mounting pile of conveyancing cases your transaction will descend. As abode conveyancing has been around since 2002 they only work with firms they KNOW provide an excellent service, and don't add on hidden extras, and if there are ever any problems, if they are not immediately remedied, work is slowed to the firm, then simply stopped. The firms soon realise that they cannot push us and ultimately our clients around, but the overriding fact that we are reasonable with them, and have provided them with a good revenue stream for many years, means they work hard to please both us and out clients". Recently, abode developed monthMove (see above) to offer to the public through agents and brokers, and now, as a reader of this site you can instruct a monthMove transaction direct through abode.