What Gas certificates do I need when I sell my house?

[bengasman]

Loads of conveyancers now just charge a one off fee regardless of the amount of letters they write or phone calls they make.

Do you mean by conveyancer, the lawyer that finalizes the paperwork?

 

[K2harry]

With the risk of receiving another slating I believe so. Most firm of lawyers have conveyancing teams that purely deal with property transactions. I have always employed a firm that charges a set fee for conveyancing that includes all the necessary questions, legal matters et al. I have never received extra charges for the twoing and throwing of sometimes unimportant (to me not the buyer) questions.

 

[bengasman]

If it is a set fee for the whole process from start to the moment you got the money in the bank, methinks most of them would not be too insistent on doing unnecessary paperwork. Part of the problems is that a housesale will often end up on the desk of the greenest trainee-assistant-junior-associate, with a freshly printed degree making her think she is one of the cleverest lawyers ever seen in the country, knowing all there is to know about law. The very fact that a lot of them ask for irrelevant documents just shows how low the profession has sunk.

 

[doitall]

Hey it's just another stealth tax, You know it, and I know it.

 

[bengasman]

Hey it's just another stealth tax...

Let's see: it was dreamed up by the infamous 2-jag, it involves filling out forms and paying money, it has absolutely no use whatsoever.
You know what? I think you may be right.