Websites for conveyancing solicitors
Websites for conveyancing solicitors: the fee on the page, the quote in minutes, the instruction the same day
Conveyancing is bought on price first and trust second, in that order, on a telephone, often the evening an offer is accepted. The firm whose site shows the fee, produces a quote in minutes, names the person and carries the CQS badge gets the instruction. The firm that says “contact us for a quote” loses it to a comparison site. We build the first kind, to the Transparency Rules and to the client.
Sound familiar?
Why conveyancing departments come to us
- The estate agent recommends you, the buyer searches your name, finds no fee and no quote form, and instructs the online conveyancer whose price was on the screen.
- The transparency page is a PDF from 2019 that nobody has opened, including the person who wrote it.
- Clients ring to ask how long it will take and what searches are, because the site does not say.
- The CQS accreditation is on the letterhead and nowhere a buyer can see it.
- The site says 'contact us for a quote', and the comparison sites say a number.
The pages
One page per kind of transaction, because that is how clients search
- Buying a home
- The stages from offer to keys, the searches and what they are for, the timescale honestly, the fee and the disbursements. The page a first-time buyer reads twice.
- Selling a home
- What the seller does, what you do, the forms, the chain, and why it takes the time it takes. The fee, and what a leasehold sale adds.
- Remortgage and transfer of equity
- Quicker matters with fixed fees. The pages that win the repeat client and the broker referral.
- Leasehold, new-build and shared ownership
- The complicated ones, explained plainly. Firms that explain the management pack and the ground rent get the instruction.
The answers
What the site answers before the client rings
These are the questions in every first call to a conveyancing department. Answered on the page, they save the call for the client who has already decided you are the firm.
- The fee, the disbursements and the VAT, in the format the SRA Transparency Rules require, on the page not in a PDF
- An instant quote form: sale, purchase or both, price band, leasehold or freehold, mortgage, and a figure back by email within minutes or hours, your choice
- The stages and a realistic timescale, with what slows a matter down and what the client can do about it
- Who does the work: the conveyancer or solicitor, their qualification, how to reach them, and the case-tracking or portal link
- The CQS badge, the SRA badge and the Legal Ombudsman information where a buyer looks
The quote form, the way we build it
- Sale, purchase or both; freehold or leasehold; price band; mortgage or cash
- Your fee scale behind it, so the figure is yours and the disbursements are listed
- A figure on the screen, or by email after a check, as the firm prefers
- The client's details to the conveyancing inbox and the person on duty
- An acknowledgement with the person's name and the next step
- Every quote logged, so you can see what price bands are asking
After the site
“Conveyancing solicitors” with a town on the end is the crowded search
National conveyancers and comparison sites hold it in most towns. Local firms win it over months with the fee written down, reviews that mention the town and the agent, the office profile listing conveyancing first, and a page per transaction. That is the monthly work, and every site package on the pricing page includes its first month free.
Questions firms ask us
Should a conveyancing firm publish fees?
It must, for residential conveyancing, under the SRA Transparency Rules: the total cost or the basis of it, disbursements, VAT, what is included, the stages, the timescale, and who does the work. Firms that publish it as a readable page rather than a PDF also win the comparison against online conveyancers, because the client stops guessing.
Can the site produce a quote automatically?
Yes. A form that takes the transaction, the price band, freehold or leasehold and a mortgage, and produces the figure from your fee scale, either instantly on the page or by email after a member of staff checks it. Both are common; the instant one converts better.
How do we compete with the online conveyancers?
On the things they cannot do: a named person, a local office, the CQS badge, reviews that mention the town and the estate agent, and a page that explains the process better than theirs. And by publishing the fee, so the comparison happens on service rather than on 'contact us'.
We get most work from estate agents. Why the website?
Because the agent's recommendation ends with the buyer searching your name. The site with the fee, the person and the reviews turns that into an instruction; the site without them sends the buyer to the comparison site the agent's colleague mentioned.
Get the conveyancing instructions the agents are already sending you
Send your site and your town. You get a review of what a buyer sees the evening the offer is accepted, and a quote for the site that answers them.