In reply to Presley Whippet:
I'd negotiate. or advertise.
Last time we moved I emailed several of our town's solicitors, asking for a quote. I can't remember exactly, but the differences in price was enormous.
We moved to Ireland once and I can still recall asking a solicitor how much conveyancing would cost us for the house we were buying.
As he scratched his fat belly he asked us whether it was going to be a holiday home, second home, were we going to live in it, were we retired, what I did for a living - was my wife working etc.,
We could just see that he was doing nothing else other than working out how much we could afford.