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Free Wills Service with Cancer Research UK

14 July 2025

MJV Solicitors are proud partners of Cancer Research UK and have been a member of their Free Will Service since 2023.  We have helped clients write their Will for free and the pledged gifts in these Wills for Cancer Research UK.

Cancer Research UK has been at the heart of the progress that has already seen cancer survival in the UK double in the last 50 years.  Gifts in Wills fund a third of the charity’s research and have helped make this possible. Whether people pledge a gift in their Will in dedication to someone who has survived or in tribute to loved one’s they’ve lost to cancer, their gift will help Cancer Research UK to fund new discoveries and find new ways to outsmart the disease.   

Cancer Research UK wants to accelerate progress and see 3 in 4 people surviving their cancer by 2034 and gifts in Wills are critical to that progress. 

We offer the Cancer Research UK Free Will Service to anyone aged 18+ to easily write or update a simple Will for free. The service is available all year round. Most people who use the service leave a gift in their will to Cancer Research UK, although there is no obligation to do so.

MJV Solicitors are ready to help you put your Will in place through the Free Will Service and guide you in your consideration of leaving a gift in your Will to Cancer Research UK, after your loved ones have been taken care of. 

The work that Cancer Research UK does and the progress that is being made means that more people will survive their cancer diagnosis in the future, more people will celebrate more occasions with their loved ones and more people will receive kinder, more effective treatments.  

For more information about the Cancer Research UK Free Will Service please contact MJV Solicitorson 01253 858231 and ask to speak to Courtney Leach or visit cruk.org/freewillservice

Conveyancing price guide

Introductory paragraph explaining price transparency and why the costs are displayed below.

Our Service

We will (depending on whether we are acting for the buyer or seller):

  1. Comply fully with the Law Society’s Protocol for Conveyancing transactions;
  2. Prepare or consider all initial documents including the contract, property information form, fixtures and fittings forms, legal title and any other such documents required by the individual circumstances of the transactions;
  3. Prepare or consider enquiries and prepare or consider the responses;
  4. Consider the search reports on a purchase;
  5. Prepare a report on purchase properties;
  6. Assist with the execution of the contract and transfer as well as any other documents that are required;
  7. Exchange and complete the transaction;
  8. Comply with all post completion requirements;
  9. Submit a Stamp Duty Land Tax return upon completion.

Purchasing

How much will it cost?

If you are purchasing a freehold property, our fees on a purchase are:

Purchase price

Our fee

VAT

Total

£0-£100,000

£600

£120

£720

£100,001 - £150,000

£650

£130

£780

£150,001 - £200,000

£700

£140

£840

£200,001 - £250,000

£750

£150

£900

£250,001 - £300,000

£800

£160

£960

£300,001 - £400,000

£850

£170

£1020

£400,001 - £500,000

£900

£180

£1080

£500,001 - £750,000

£1000

£200

£1200

Each transaction will also incur the additional charges set out below:

Additional charge and explanation

Our fee

VAT

Total

Bank transfer fee

£30.00

£6.00

£36.00

Independent ID verification (per person)

£5.00

£1.00

£6.00

Depending on the specific nature of your purchase, we may also charge you the following:

Charge

Our fee

VAT

Total

Purchase of a leasehold house

£100.00

£20.00

£120.00

Purchase of any other leasehold property

£150.00

£30.00

£180.00

Purchase of a shared ownership property

£250.00

£50.00

£300.00

Gifted deposit

£50.00

£10.00

£60.00

New build property

£250.00

£50.00

£300.00

The above costs are for our fees only and all are subject to the disbursements on your matter.

Disbursements on a purchase

Please note that, subject to the relevant rules in operation at the time of your purchase and the value and nature of your purchase (i.e. whether you are a first time buyer or if you are purchasing a buy to let property), you may be required to pay Stamp Duty Land Tax on your purchase. This is not classified as a disbursement and we will advise you on your tax liability, if any, upon receipt of your instructions or specific enquiry.

Please note that our search and service providers often increase charges at little notice and so the disbursements quoted below are subject to change. We update this website as soon as possible following any such change.

Typically, the following searches are required for a purchase (all charges are inclusive of any VAT or insurance premium tax):

Local Authority’s current search fee (if Blackpool, Wyre or Fylde)

£122.70 inc VAT

Drainage and Water search fee

£79.50 inc VAT

Environmental search

£71.40 inc VAT

Land Registry priority title search

£3.00 no VAT

Bankruptcy search - £2 per seller named on the Register of Title

£2.00 no VAT

Land charges search - £2 per seller named on the Register of Title

£2.00 no VAT

It may transpire through the course of your purchase that further searches are required, but this is not typically so and most of our purchase matters complete having undertaken only the searches listed above.

You will have to pay a fee to register your property.

Purchase price

Land Registry registration fee (no VAT)

£0 - £80,000

£20.00 no VAT

£80,001 - £100,000

£40.00 no VAT

£100,001 - £200,000

£100.00 no VAT

£200,001 - £500,000

£150.00 no VAT

£500,001 - £1,000,000

£295.00 no VAT

£1,000,000 and above

£500.00 no VAT

Selling

How much will it cost? – Sale

If you are purchasing a freehold property, our fees on a purchase are:

Purchase price

Our fee

VAT

Total

£0-£100,000

£600.00

£120.00

£720.00

£100,001 - £150,000

£650.00

£130.00

£780.00

£150,001 - £200,000

£700.00

£140.00

£840.00

£200,001 - £250,000

£750.00

£150.00

£900.00

£250,001 - £300,000

£800.00

£160.00

£960.00

£300,001 - £400,000

£850.00

£170.00

£1020.00

£400,001 - £500,000

£900.00

£180.00

£1080.00

£500,001 - £750,000

£1000.00

£200.00

£1200.00

Over £750,000

To be negotiated

To be applied

To be agreed

Each transaction will also incur the additional charges set out below:

Additional charge and explanation

Our fee

VAT

Total

Bank transfer fee

£30.00

£6.00

£36.00

Independent ID verification (per person)

£5.75

£1.15

£6.90

We are currently on the panels of Lloyds Banking Group (Halifax, Birmingham Midshires and Lloyds) and Barclays. If you are purchasing a property with any of these lenders, we would be delighted to assist you, but cannot act where the mortgage is provided by any other lender.

Depending on the specific nature of your purchase, we may also charge you the following:

Charge

Our fee

VAT

Total

Sale of a leasehold house

£100.00

£20.00

£120.00

Sale of any other leasehold property

£150.00

£30.00

£180.00

Sale of a shared ownership property

£250.00

£50.00

£300.00

The above costs are for our fees only and all are subject to the disbursements on your matter.

Re-mortgages

We charge £500 plus VAT for acting on a re-mortgage.

Our disbursements are limited to the Land Registry searches of £3 per document (there is no VAT on Land Registry charges) and typically the total cost of these is between £6-£15 depending on how many documents are registered and whether the property being re-mortgaged is freehold or leasehold. Most lenders normally permit the purchase of no search insurance rather than undertaking new searches and this costs, inclusive of insurance premium tax.

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