I called about a thousand solicitors yesterday to arrange the conveyancing of the new house. After all of that I ended up organising it online with SelectConveyancing telling me that Nigel Broadhead Mynard being the cheapest solicitor for what we needed. Strangely if I called the same solicitor and got a quote over the phone it was a couple of hundred pounds more expensive. I went with the online quote.

After that I called the bank to tell them the details of the solicitor, and then I did the same with the estate agent.

Now we’re pretty much just waiting for all of those guys to do their bits and get together.

The whole thing has added an extra 2 grand to the mortgage and we’ve paid just around another £1000 in various fees. Buying a house isn’t cheap even if the house itself is.