Lawyer's Costs and Fees: Conveyancing Fees and Duties

1. Stamp Duty Land Tax ("SDLT") 1.1 Introduction 1.2 HM Revenue & Customs publications 1.3 General information 1.4 "Chargeable consideration" 1.5 Reliefs 1.6 SDLT Rates 1.7 SDLT and `abnormal' rent increases 2. Land Registry 2.1 Land Registry Offices 2.2 Land Registry "Practice Guides" 2.3 Application and Search Forms 2.4 Land Registry Fees 2.5 Land Charges Department 3. Local land charges - searches and enquiries (including a list of local authorities) 4. Drainage and Water searches 5. Commons Registration search 6. Environmental searches and reports 7. Coal mining searches and reports 8. Tin and copper mining searches in parts of South West England 9. China Clay searches 10. Radon searches 11. Cheshire brine subsidence searches 12. Companies House 13. Gypsum mining 14. The National Land Information Service ("NLIS") 15. Information available from "English Heritage" 16. Transport for London searches 17. Ordnance Survey information 18. Chancel repair 19. Rates of interest under s 32 Land Compensation Act 1961 20. Law Society interest rates 21. Other telephone numbers