Conveyancing can be done technically from anywhere, so long as the solicitor has appropriate qualifications; it isn't like getting a building survey, where your surveyor should really have expert local knowledge from doing many surveys in the area. ID checking can be done entirely online and there's only a few things, for example, that have to be sent by snail mail (original documents). Conversely, if you opt for a local solicitor, a chunk of what you're paying for is for that solicitor to have a physical office on a high street. Make that a London high street and you can see your bill rising. All this said, you do get what you pay for and from what I've heard, people would have paid more in retrospect if their conveyancing had been handled more speedily and efficiently than it was. My personal recommendation here has to be SAM Conveyancing. They work according to a fixed fee basis so I knew what my bill was going to be right from the get-go. They were very proactive in their customer care and quick to act when there was the odd hold-up in the process. You can find them at www.samconveyancing.co.uk. I found SAM Conveyancing to be brilliant in terms of online solicitors
