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As of 13 August 2026, AI can only partly estimate your conveyancing costs.
This still needs a person who signs their name to it.
Can you do it?
5 minutesto a draft.
30 minutesto something you’d act on.
Cost, all in£0
Skill neededchat-fluent
Who has to check ityou
What the alternative costsNo conveyancing quote or alternative price is provided in the supplied sources.
If this goes wrong: you budget too little for the transaction and have to find extra money or delay the move when the conveyancer or lender identifies omitted costs.
What to actually do
Hand it to a person
The route this page recommends
A person who owns the outcome does this end to end, worth it when the failure is dear.
Use a tool built for this
Second choiceDo it yourself
The distant thirdA chat interface, chat-fluent skill, and roughly 30 minutes until you can act on the result.
How to actually do it
- Open GOV.UK guidance relevant to your part of the UK and note whether the transaction is a purchase, sale, remortgage or transfer of equity.
- Gather the property price, whether it is freehold or leasehold, your mortgage details, whether you are a first-time buyer, and whether you are buying and selling in a chain.
- Collect any written fee estimates from conveyancers, including VAT, searches, registration costs, lender charges and leasehold supplements, and remove personal account numbers or identity documents.
- Paste the prompt and your transaction details into a chatbot, then answer its follow-up questions without asking it to guess missing costs.
- Compare each tax and statutory-cost assumption in the response with the current GOV.UK pages you opened, and compare professional fees with the written conveyancer estimates.
- Send the remaining unknowns and the chatbot's questions to at least two conveyancers, asking for a written all-in estimate and confirmation of possible extra charges.
- Replace the AI figures with confirmed figures in your moving budget, and keep the conveyancer's written quote as the figure you rely on.
Prompt
Estimate my UK conveyancing costs as a planning budget, not as a legal quote. Ask me for any missing details before calculating. Cover these separately: purchase or sale, property price, cash or mortgage, freehold or leasehold, whether I am buying and selling at the same time, location in the UK, first-time buyer status, gifted deposit or Help to Buy-related arrangements, chain status, remortgage or transfer of equity, and any known unusual title or planning issues. Use only current UK sources that I provide or that you can identify clearly, and distinguish England and Wales from Scotland and Northern Ireland. Separate solicitor or conveyancer fees, VAT, searches, Land Registry or registration costs, bank or lender charges, survey costs, removals, insurance, and any property tax that may apply. Do not invent a fee, tax rate, threshold, deadline or statutory charge. Where the amount depends on a professional quote, show it as unknown and explain what to ask the conveyancer. Give me a low, likely and high planning range only where the assumptions support one, then list every assumption and a checklist of questions to send to two regulated conveyancers. Mark anything I must confirm with the conveyancer, lender or GOV.UK. This is not professional advice.
Open it prefilled in ChatGPT or Claude, or copy it into Gemini, which takes no prefill link.
What it gets wrong
- AI cannot see your title, lease, mortgage offer or conveyancer's internal fee schedule unless you provide the relevant information.
- It cannot know whether an unusual title issue, lease clause, gifted deposit or lender requirement will create extra work.
- It cannot provide the binding quote or professional accountability that comes with instructing a conveyancer.
- It cannot reliably confirm current taxes, registration charges or local search costs without checking the relevant official or supplier source.
- A neat total can hide omitted disbursements, VAT or transaction-specific supplements.
What caps this at PARTLY: verification cost, legal accountability and judgement under ambiguity.
How we scored this
Five axes, each scored nought to two by hand: ten means AI carries the task cleanly, and the thresholds that turn a total into YES, PARTLY or NO are published in the methodology. Each axis name links to its definition.
| Axis | Score (0–2) |
|---|---|
| Output | 2 |
| Inputs | 1 |
| Verification | 1 |
| Liability | 1 |
| Effort delta | 2 |
| Total | 7 / 10 |
The methodology and its thresholds are published in full.
FAQ
- Can AI calculate my conveyancing fees?
- It can produce an itemised planning estimate from your transaction details and a written quote. It cannot replace a conveyancer's quote because leasehold terms, title issues, lender requirements and disbursements can change the final amount.
- What information does AI need to estimate conveyancing costs?
- Give it the property price, purchase or sale details, freehold or leasehold status, mortgage position, location, first-time buyer status and whether there is a chain. Also provide any written conveyancer fees and known complications, but remove personal and financial security details.
- Does conveyancing cost more for a leasehold property?
- It can, because leasehold work may involve additional documents, enquiries and charges from managing agents or the freeholder. Ask the conveyancer to list leasehold supplements and disbursements separately instead of relying on an AI estimate.
- Can AI tell me the total cost of buying a house in the UK?
- It can organise a budget covering conveyancing, searches, registration, mortgage-related charges, surveys, removals and any applicable property tax. The result is only a planning figure until you check current GOV.UK information and obtain a written quote from a conveyancer.
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Assessed by gpt-5.6-luna (gpt-5.6-luna) on 2026-08-13, second-checked by an independent model. Wrong somewhere? Email [email protected] and it gets re-checked.
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