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solicitor fees for land purchase

  • 27-10-2012 9:25am
    #1
    digzy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,049 ✭✭✭


    I'm hoping to purchase a parcel of land. I'm just wondering what kinda fees people have paid to solicitors for the conveyencing. was it a flat fee or a percentage of the selling price?

    When I bought my house a few years back I was charged a percentage of the purchase price:rolleyes: which is utter bullsh1t given that whether a house costs 100k or 400k the workoad is something similar.


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  • #2
    Farmer Pudsey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,326 ✭✭✭Farmer Pudsey


    Shop around get them to outline all charges such as search's etc. Some fees are set such as stamp duty, land registery fees. Sometimes they will try to add on for search's etc. Also they indicate that there are no extra's for sundries, postage and phone calls or emails the fees is the fee's. Make sure to find out if it includes vat refuse to pay a % of the purchasse price,

    Best of luck it is always dear the day you buy it.


  • #3
    digzy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,049 ✭✭✭digzy


    i'm living in a small town. I imagine there'd be little enough in difference between them. no doubt they meet up every so often to discuss fees.

    bloody 'professionals':(


  • #4
    ravima
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 848 ✭✭✭ravima


    you don't have to use one in the town. Google other firms, look at golden pages. Many will od the job for a set fee rather than a percentage.


  • #5
    Stinicker
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 7,102 ✭✭✭Stinicker


    I know a lad who's solicitor tried to charge him €8k for administering the will and moving the thing to his own name when his father passed away. The same lad went into to the solicitor threw €2.5k in cash up on the table and told him you can "f*&k off" you'll take it or you won't get a single penny for the thing at all. The solicitor took the cash and that was the end of it. They are legalized thieves and people should not roll over to them.


  • #6
    viztopia
    Closed Accounts Posts: 770 ✭✭✭viztopia


    Stinicker wrote: »
    I know a lad who's solicitor tried to charge him €8k for administering the will and moving the thing to his own name when his father passed away. The same lad went into to the solicitor threw €2.5k in cash up on the table and told him you can "f*&k off" you'll take it or you won't get a single penny for the thing at all. The solicitor took the cash and that was the end of it. They are legalized thieves and people should not roll over to them.

    Did the €2.5k include stamp duty? What ever about paying somebody in cash and they might then take less, stamp duty is stamp duty and you can't pay any less than is due here. Also mustn't have been too much land involved if only 2.5k was paid.

    In terms of what you should actually pay, o would run a mile from any solicitor who wants a percentage of cost. If there is a loan involved then there is more work for the solicitor. I would think that outside of stamp duty and outlay you should get a lot don't for €1,500.


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