Make Your Move Easy
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Newport, Gwent
Make Your Move Easy is based in Newport, on the Wern Industrial Estate. Tell us what you are buying or selling and we will come back with a fixed quote from a regulated conveyancing firm — and you can pick up the phone to a local team the whole way through.
Which are you doing?
Newport is one of the more affordable markets we work in, and legal fees follow property values to an extent — but the bigger factors are what you are doing and what you are buying. Buying and selling together costs less than two standalone transactions. A leasehold flat costs more than a freehold house. A mortgage adds lender work that a cash purchase does not.
We do not publish a fixed Newport price, because a figure that ignores tenure and price band is not a quote, it is an advert. The live quote engine gives you the real number for your transaction, itemised so you can see what is the firm's fee and what is money passing straight through to someone else.
The quote is free and there is no obligation to instruct. If the title turns out to be unregistered, or the lease needs a variation, you are told what it costs before the work is done.
Most people searching for a Newport solicitor are at one of three points. The work and the quote differ for each.
Your conveyancer investigates the title, orders searches, raises enquiries, checks anything the lender requires and reports to you before you sign.
In Newport the recurring enquiries are about mining search results, alterations without building regulations sign-off, and — on the eastern new-build estates — estate rent charges and management company obligations that continue after you move in.
You complete the property information and fittings forms, your conveyancer draws the contract pack, deals with the buyer's enquiries and redeems your mortgage on completion.
Newport sellers lose the most time to missing paperwork. If you replaced the windows, converted the loft, took out a chimney breast or built a conservatory, find the certificates now. An indemnity policy usually solves it, but only once someone notices, and noticing at week eleven costs a fortnight.
The two files run in parallel with a single exchange and one completion date agreed across the chain.
This is the most common Newport instruction, and it is priced as a pair rather than as two jobs. One firm holds both sides, which removes a whole layer of chasing.
Most Newport housing is freehold, which keeps transactions comparatively simple. The leasehold work here is concentrated in a few specific places.
The majority of Newport purchases. Title, searches, enquiries and the mortgage — terraces in Maindee, Pill and Alway, semis in Malpas and Bettws, and family housing in Langstone and Caerleon are almost all freehold.
Contract pack, forms, enquiries, mortgage redemption. The paperwork for alterations is what determines whether this is a smooth six weeks or a frustrating twelve.
Mostly converted townhouse flats around Stow Hill and the city centre, plus purpose-built apartments near the river. The lease term, ground rent, service charge and who repairs the roof all need checking, and your lender has a minimum lease length it will accept.
The management pack is ordered from the freeholder or managing agent at the start, not the end. Where a converted townhouse is managed informally by the flat owners themselves, expect the buyer's solicitor to ask for evidence of buildings insurance and how repairs are funded.
Glan Llyn, Duffryn and the newer Rogerstone developments frequently come with an estate rent charge or a management company covering unadopted roads and green space. It is a genuine ongoing cost and it is checked and reported before exchange.
Where the transaction is leasehold, it is priced as leasehold from the outset. We do not quote a freehold fee and add the leasehold work as a surprise later.
Newport remains one of the most affordable places to buy within reach of Cardiff and Bristol, which makes it genuine first-time-buyer territory. Most first purchases here are freehold houses rather than flats, which is a considerably easier start.
Buying with a gifted deposit or a family member's help? Mention it at quote stage — the source-of-funds checks are straightforward but they take a few days, and starting them early costs you nothing.
With a mortgage, your conveyancer acts for you and for your lender. The lender's conditions have to be satisfied before completion, and a condition raised late — a retention, an indemnity policy, further evidence of deposit — is one of the most common reasons a Newport completion date moves.
Cash purchases can complete considerably faster because there is no lender in the timetable. The searches are still worth doing: a mining search or a planning enforcement notice matters just as much when you are not borrowing.
Newport chains often stretch into Cardiff and across the bridge into Bristol, because people move between all three. A chain moves at the speed of its slowest link, and the slowest link is very often a leasehold flat sale waiting on a management pack. If you are in a chain, ask early where the leasehold properties are.
We handle purchases, sales and transfers of equity — adding or removing someone from the deeds. Remortgage-only work is not currently part of the conveyancing quote engine; if that is what you need, start with our mortgage advice service instead.
Six steps from quote to keys, with the file visible in your MYME account throughout.
We are a Newport property services platform, not a law firm. The conveyancing is carried out by regulated firms on our panel, co-ordinated by a team in the city.
The panel firms are regulated conveyancers who may or may not be based in Newport. We would rather say that plainly than claim a local high-street office we do not have for the legal work itself.
Newport sits over former coal workings across much of the city and the valleys immediately north of it, so a coal mining search is standard rather than optional. Most come back clear or with historic workings at a depth that raises no concern. Where a search returns findings, a further report is sometimes needed, and that adds time rather than usually adding a problem — but it is a reason not to leave searches until the mortgage offer arrives.
The market moves at two speeds. Terraces in Maindee, Pill, Alway and Ringland at the lower end frequently go to best offers within days, which puts pressure on the buyer to have a conveyancer instructed and ID checks done before the memorandum of sale arrives. At the top end, larger properties in Caerleon, Langstone and Bassaleg can sit for months, and the sale timetable is set by the buyer's own chain.
A meaningful share of city-centre stock is converted townhouses split into flats around Stow Hill and Clarence Place. Conversions carried out years ago often have leases that deal poorly with the roof, the drains or the shared entrance, and some are managed informally by the owners themselves. It is workable, and it is why the lease is read properly at the start rather than skimmed.
Newport also has a large private rented sector, so landlord sales and purchases are routine here. Selling with a tenant in situ, buying a property subject to an existing tenancy, or dealing with an HMO licence all change what needs to be disclosed and what the buyer's lender will accept. Tell us at quote stage if a tenancy is involved.
On the eastern side of the city, Glan Llyn, Llanwern and the newer Rogerstone and Duffryn developments frequently carry estate rent charges and management company obligations for unadopted roads, drainage and green space. These continue for as long as you own the property, so they are reported before exchange rather than mentioned in passing.
Conveyancing across the whole city and the surrounding villages, including:
We also handle conveyancing in Cardiff, Bristol and across South Wales, so a Newport-to-Cardiff or Newport-to-Bristol move is one instruction rather than two firms emailing each other.
Worth reading if it has been a few years since your last move.
A regulated firm, a fixed quote, and someone who answers the phone.