House Purchase

In most cases, we will instruct the same solicitor to act for Nationwide as your client. In addition to paying their own legal fees, your client will also be liable for our legal costs which will be detailed separately on the invoice from their solicitor.

In addition, your client's solicitor will have to be reimbursed for various charges incurred on their behalf, such as fees for searches and Land Registry registration fees. These charges are referred to as disbursements.

Remortgage

We will pay the legal fees in connection with a straightforward remortgage of registered land. However, you should be aware that your client will be required to pay all the charges or fees relating to any non-standard work that a conveyancer has to carry out.

Non-standard fees your client will have to pay include:

• Mining or any other unusual search fees.
• Fees for first registration of the title at H.M. Land Registry
• Dealing with a change of name on the title deeds or a transfer of equity.
• Rectification of defective title etc.

For a full list of non-standard fees your client may have to pay please see our additional charges guide and ensure a copy of this guide is provided to your client. The acting solicitor will send your client a full list of the non-standard fees in the initial instruction letter.

Click here to download additional charges guide

For leasehold cases, any fees your client must pay to the freeholder or management company, and any fee for carrying out a company search or obtaining company documentation in respect of management company, are not included.

The solicitor we choose will be acting for Nationwide, so if your client decides not to use the solicitor selected by us and/or take independent legal advice, this will not be covered under our 'free legal fees' scheme.