Deedsum
What moving home actually costs
Conveyancing fees, Land Registry fees and stamp duty, each read from the body that sets it and dated. No forms, no sales calls, no lead selling.
Buying or selling a home in the UK means paying several different people at once, and almost nobody sets the whole bill out in one place with the receipts attached. Deedsum does. Every figure here is read from the body that sets it, quoted, and stamped with the day we read it.
What conveyancing costs
£500 to £5,500 before VAT across the firms we readThe legal fee from firms' own published price pages, quoted word for word, plus every disbursement that lands on the same bill. Not a league table, and the page says why.
Land Registry fees
£20 to £1,105 depending on price and how the application is sentThe statutory scales in full, set by an order of Parliament, so identical at every firm. The one line on your bill that nobody can mark up honestly.
Stamp duty, LBTT and LTT
0% up to £125,000, then 2%, 5%, 10% and 12% on the portions aboveThree nations, three different taxes, each from its own revenue body, with a calculator that runs in your browser and sends nothing anywhere.
Why the same job costs different money
Two honest quotes on the same house can differ by hundreds of pounds before anybody has done anything wrong. The largest single reason is the council: the same statutory search runs £74.50 to £263.75 across the eight councils we track, and you do not get to choose which council your house sits in.
The rest is the legal fee itself, which firms are required to publish and which varies enormously, and the tax, which depends on which nation you are buying in and whether you already own a home. Those three pages above are those three questions.
How this site works
- Every figure names the body that sets it, links its own page, and carries the date we read it and the date it is due a re-read.
- Where we have done the arithmetic ourselves, the page says so beside the number rather than passing it off as published.
- A figure we cannot verify is left out. A page with a gap in it is better than a page with a guess in it.
- There is no form anywhere on this site. We do not ask for your name, your postcode or your email, so we have nothing to pass to anyone.
- The figures are open data. Every one of them is in the feed at /api/metrics.json, with its source and its dates.
What Deedsum is not
Deedsum does not do conveyancing, is on nobody's panel, and is not paid to send you to anybody. Nothing here is advice about your own transaction. It is published figures with their receipts, so you can read a quote and know which parts of it were never anyone's to choose. The line underneath every page says the same thing in the formal words.