Seatons Law Limited

Seatons solicitors have been fantastic in helping me with the sale of my late mother’s house and also with free advice 😎highly recommended and a big thanks to Adrian Chambers 10/10

Very efficient and friendly service. Would definitely recommend them to friends and family.

If you are looking at anything to do with the purchase or sale of a property and a lease is involved avoid at all costs. I went to sell my apartment only to find that Seatons hand not registered the property and only provided me with a draft lease, I lost two cash buyers and nine months of my life. Many other issues accumulated in to more time lost and thousands of pounds in costs.

I am very thankful for Seatons Solicitors' services and especially to Gemma McKimmie and secretaries regarding the checking and arrangement of buying a house for us. At the beginning I was a little confused but by the end everything was clear. I will definitely recommend you to my friends and relatives.

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Gemma McKimmie

We recently used Seatons for the purchase of a holiday rental property. We experienced poor communication, errors, lack of empathy in prioritising work in urgent situations and the general attitude we received from employees. We were fully aware of the current stamp duty deadline, which didn’t affect us, but this excuse was used on more than one occasion as a reason for their lengthy response time. Plus we were told by a certain staff member to “appreciate that we wouldn’t want other clients to lose out on thousands of pounds if we were affected by the stamp duty holiday”….yet we too were facing the potential loss of £’s in relation to the matter we asked them to look into for us after the property purchase had completed. Thankfully Adrian was much more helpful. He reviewed our file and within half an hour was able to advise and assist us from a legal point of view. Just a shame that certain people who work in the Conveyancing Team couldn’t have the same attitude with regards to customer service!!

We used Seatons after a recommendation from our mortgage broker, Hockridge Mortgages (who I would also highly recommend). Initially, following completing our onboarding paperwork, I sent a couple of emails and received an auto reply that essentially says if you try to chase up a reply you’ll delay it longer, which did make us a bit nervous about what to expect. However, once we got a bit further into the process (searches and onwards) replies were speedy, we could always get in touch with our solicitor when needed, if she didn’t need to reply personally we still received a reply from one of the legal assistants, and despite our worries about having to chase up replies, this wasn’t the case. Often, we had replies back within an hour or two, especially at the end. There was a lot of back and forth and some issues with our sellers onward purchase, exchange was delayed by over a week, but thanks to Gemma and team we managed to exchange and complete as originally planned. Having had a terrible experience elsewhere for a different property, we were both very pleased with the service from Seatons, and would 100% use if needed in the future.

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Gemma McKimmie

Gemma and conveyancing team at Corby dealt with my case very promptly! It’s been a smooth process. Thank you.

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Gemma McKimmie

I was recommended to use Seatons for my house purchase after a year of delays on my sale as well as a failed purchase with another solicitor and I honestly couldn't recommend them enough as their service was truly amazing! Siobhan and Claire were always there to answer any questions I had making the whole process feel more personal and they also managed to complete it in record time too. I'll be using them for any future moves and will be recommending them to everyone I know. Thank you!

Over the years we have used Seatons many times for all of our legal requirements, most recently using Adrian & Amanda to redo our wills and Gemma and the team for our house purchase. We have always received excellent service, fast friendly and professional and good value. We would thoroughly recommend their services.

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Gemma McKimmie

Unfortunately, I was a customer/client of Seatons back in January of this year and this is self explain why I’ve only just written this review. I have experienced poor communication, lack of professionalism, incorrect figures and questionable paperwork which nearly caused my house sale to fall through, but I was threaten with being passed onto their debt department after my house sale. Poor communication - I was constantly kept away from important information and having to contact the other party about any movement and changes about the property sale. This was frustrating, disappointing and stressful throughout. Incorrect paperwork - I was sent paperwork from Seatons relating to my house sale, this included the other party names, but did not include my own name. Obviously, I queried this and requested to include my own name onto the paperwork, after numerous emails and even visiting their Corby branch, there was long delays, but eventually they’ve added my name just in handwriting and had to ask for an email confirming the change, when I could sign it. During that time, this caused unnecessary conflict for the house sale from all angles. After this, I started to seek advice from people with law experience and questioned either to continue with Seatons or start the process again with a different firm and felt complaining to Seatons would have made more delays and conflict. Incorrect figures - Due to the incompetence creating the correct figures, I was sent not once, but twice incorrect final statement figures from Seaton's and the third figure had to be created from the other party of the property sale and sent in, who I had no alternative but to trust at the time and caused a stressful period. For a solicitor firm, I found this to be unprofessional, also worrying for a firm unable to subtract and divide a few sums. Aftermath - After the house sale was completed and the transaction was through. At the time, I wasn’t satisfied but thought it wasn’t worth writing an review and thought this could of been a very bad one-off experience for all, but after I was contacted by Seatons and asked to transfer a tax charge which was not stated to us when the third final statement was sent in and which they’ve already accepted. Personally, I thought it was hilarious that they had the audacity to ask, especially how unprofessional they’ve been throughout the process and quite frankly they should of accepted the loss on their own behalf, as it was their mistake. Seatons kept pursuing and eventually threaten me being passed on the debt department and after numerous emails, I paid the outstanding amount as it was a petty low figure and they’re not worth my time challenging. Seatons have shown how unprofessional, have a lack of morals on how they make their finances and no interest of creating a good form of customer/client relations.