£1,495, fixed, per property.
That is our fee for the work described below, agreed before you commit and confirmed in your engagement letter. Third-party costs are separate, and they are set out here too rather than discovered later.
What you pay us
£1,495 per case
Where VAT applies it is charged at the prevailing rate and shown separately.
- Payable once, when you instruct us
- Taken by Stripe - your card details never reach us
- One property, one case, one fee
What the fixed fee covers
- Reviewing your lease and title, and confirming your entitlement.
- Identifying the freeholder and any intermediate landlords.
- Preparing and serving the statutory notice.
- Dealing with the counter-notice and negotiating the price with us instructed alongside your valuer.
- The transfer, completion and registration at HM Land Registry.
- Your online case file, and your identity verification.
What is charged separately
- The price of the freehold itself.
- The surveyor's valuation.
- The freeholder's reasonable costs, where you are liable for them.
- Land Registry fees, office copy entries and searches.
- Tribunal or court fees, and any barrister's fee, if the case goes that far.
- Stamp Duty Land Tax, where the purchase attracts it.
Where the other money goes
We do not quote a figure for these on a page, because a made-up number is worse than none: most of them depend on the property. What we can tell you is who sets each one, so you know what you are looking at.
| Cost | Paid to | How it is set |
|---|---|---|
| Price of the freehold | The freeholder | Valuation, then negotiation - or the First-tier Tribunal if it is not agreed. |
| Valuation | An enfranchisement surveyor | Quoted for the property before the work is done. |
| Freeholder's reasonable costs | The freeholder | Limited by statute to what is reasonable, and challengeable if it is not. |
| Office copies and searches | HM Land Registry | Published fixed fees. |
| Registration fee | HM Land Registry | A published scale, based on the price paid. |
| Tribunal fees | HM Courts & Tribunals Service | Published application and hearing fees; only if the price goes to a determination. |
| Stamp Duty Land Tax | HM Revenue & Customs | Statutory rates, based on the price paid for the freehold. |
If the work changes materially
A fixed fee is fixed for the scope in your engagement letter. If something changes the job - the freeholder disputes your entitlement outright, say, or the case goes to the tribunal - we tell you before doing the extra work and agree a revised fee with you in writing. You will not find it on an invoice afterwards.
More than one property
Each property is a separate case, with its own case number and its own fee. That is deliberate: it keeps the notices, the money and the correspondence for one property from becoming entangled with another's.
Paying us
The fee is payable when you instruct us, through this website. Payments are processed by Stripe on its own secure page - we never see or store your card details. Your right to cancel, and what happens if you do, is set out in our terms of business.
Want it priced for your property?
Send us the address and what you know about the lease. We will confirm the fee, estimate the disbursements and tell you whether you qualify - before you commit to anything.