Conveyancing - Solicitors or Conveyancers ??

[Scouse]

I need to have a contract drawn up to sell my house so who's the quickest/easiest/cheapest these days?

Buying/selling was always done through a solicitor but there's lot's on conveyancers around these days too.

I would like to think that conveyancers would be better as this is all they do but does anyone have any negative thoughts about using them?



Any recommendations for anyone in Parramatta/Liverpool/Campbelltown?

[Redback]

You can buy your own conveyancing kits and do it yourself you know.

Baz.

[MickS]

Home | The Shire Conveyancer (http://www.shireconveyancer.com.au/)

Operates out of Campbelltown as well. Never used them though, so can't comment.

[abaddonxi]

I did the self-conveyancing thing.

Mistake on my part.

As the conveyancer for the opposing team said, 'you're paying for the liability. I have insurance to cover if I make a mistake."

And she did on several occasions. Basic things like counting a public holiday as a working day, etc.

The process wasn't necessarily difficult or complicated, but the patronising attitude from lawyers and the bloke who sold me the kit was.

Also in the case of selling, the bloke buying our place was a nutcase - his conveyancer put a restraining order on him after one meeting.:eek: He then decided he didn't need a conveyancer or a kit. It would have been much easier to have someone else dealing with him.

[ghillie]

Does the conveyancing company have effective professional indemnity insurance to cover you if they make a mistake and it costs you?

[MickS]

Does the conveyancing company have effective professional indemnity insurance to cover you if they make a mistake and it costs you?

You would expect so...

From the abovementioned hyperlink - FAQ's...

Do all conveyancers carry professional indemnity insurance? (10) All licensed conveyancers are covered by a policy of professional indemnity insurance. This is done for your protection in the unlikely situation that something goes wrong with your transaction. You should check to see that your conveyancer is a member of the Institute, Aa CPC, and if they are then you will know that they are covered by the policy held by the Institute and approved by the governing body, Department of Fair Trading.
If you choose to use a CPC, for your conveyancing, you will have done so in the knowledge that you have chosen a conveyancer who holds Professional Indemnity Insurance and who must participate in the AIC's Risk Management Program for your protection.

[VladTepes]

Never having sold a place myself I'm not sure but a neighbour worked for a solicitor who did a lot of conveyancing (Well she did, he charged for it).

Anyway she had a very low opinion of SOME of the cheapo conveyancing firms around the place saying their error rate is very high.

Cheaper and better rarely coincide.

[FenianEel]

hey Scouse,

Don't do it yourself.
Don't use an el cheapo conveyancing chain, they are the pits.

A solicitor that knows what they're doing is great.
A 'professional' conveyancer is worth the time and money.

Try Murphy Conveyancing, (Sharyn Murphy), they're at Springwood, but location is irrelevant, as they work everywhere.
I only know them, as I've had a few clients near you use them, and they are v. good.
;)

[isuzurover]

I used a (small independant) conveyancer when we bought our place. I found them quite efficient and helpful/useful.

From memory it cost about <$1K all up. Money well spent IMHO.

A relative used a solicitor for both negotiating house contracts and conveyancing. Cost ~$10k!!! (But I think that was for both selling and buying).

[FenianEel]

I used a (small independant) conveyancer when we bought our place. I found them quite efficient and helpful/useful.

From memory it cost about <$1K all up. Money well spent IMHO.

A relative used a solicitor for both negotiating house contracts and conveyancing. Cost ~$10k!!! (But I think that was for both selling and buying).

$10k that's insane?!!!
Even for buying and selling, it should be nowhere near that!:eek:

Solicitors aren't much more expensive than conveyancers.

[MickS]

$10k that's insane?!!!
Even for buying and selling, it should be nowhere near that!:eek:

Solicitors aren't much more expensive than conveyancers.

But they are infinitely lower on the food chain....:cool:

[trobbo]

I have used both when buying and selling properties. Conveyancers charge about 600 - 700 depending on whether it was a purchase or sale. Never had a problem with them. Solicitor charge about 3 times as much and as far as I was concerned the quality of work was the same.
On my most recent exercise of sale I rang a local conveyancer and asked them straight up - why should I use you instead of someone else. Well she gave me a good answer, had done it for 20 years with a law firm and she got the job.

[BMKal]

We used a local conveyancing firm when buying the house in Kal and were very happy with the service provided.

At the moment, we are in the process of selling a house in the southern end of Adelaide following a death in the family. Because of issues with the will and probate etc we have been forced to use the solicitor who is handling the will. While not wishing to generalise, this solicitor would have to be the most incompetent bumbling fool I think that I have ever come across - in ANY profession. The number of errors made on paperwork submitted to the probate officer, resulting in arranging corrections, re-issuing of the death certificate, and re-submission of paperwork is simply unbelievable. Most of these have been around things like spelling mistakes (Ron - this bloke needs your help), incorrect names (he got my wife's name wrong in the paperwork - I didn't think you could stuff up the spelling of "Mary"), incorrect addresses (twice - once for our address in Kalgoorlie and once for the address of the nursing home at which the wife's father passed away). This has been going on for more than eight months now, and we still don't know when things will be finalised.

The wife - normally a fairly quiet and reserved person - got up him on the phone recently and told him that he was an incompetent fool. He replied in writing stating that, in his opinion, he is very competent in these matters having had years of experience.

Suffice to say that formal complaints with dates, details etc have now been lodged with the senior partner of his law firm, and with the bar association by both ourselves and the family who have agreed to buy the house and are also being mucked around no end. Fortunately the purchaser is a Police Officer, and has been able to provide some good contacts in SA on where to lodge these complaints.

After this experience, I will never use a solicitor again unless absolutely necessary, and even then it is someone who I know personally or who has been strongly recommended by someone I know and trust. Over-paid, bludging wastes of space if you ask me. In any other line of work, these mongrels wouldn't survive a month.

[dullbird]

Scott the conveyancer we used was brilliant would recommend her to anyone.

We used her when we bought at east hills, and we used her to sell east hills and to buy thirlmere.

we had a lot of problems when the people bought our house at east hills because of there solicitor!! after talking to a number of people a lot recommended going with a conveyancer as they make life so much easier and quicker,where as a lot of the time solicitors can be a pain in the arse. (as we found out)

I guess it depends on how much you want to pay we paid $1000 but she was worth every penny we bsaically did nothing when buying and selling our house because she covered everything including all the dealings with the mortgage company..

oh hang on thats right we signed a couple of forms..:lol2: