LUTTONS DUNFORD

After having such a poor experience with a "factory conveyancing" firm 5 years ago, we decided to go with Mike Rickaby at Luttons Dunford after several first hand recommendations. Mike was brilliant in conveyancing for us on the sale of our house and purchase of our new build from start to finish, keeping us informed at every stage of the process. On the day of the move we didn't have to make a single phone call, and everything happened without any chasing from ourselves. Highly recommend!

Excellent service from start to finish. House sale and purchase completed in 9 weeks. Mike Rickaby worked hard to bring this in before the new stamp duty changes saving us money

Simon Fisher has been my Solicitor through several house sales/ purchases and family matters for several years.
I have found his work to be timely, diligent, thorough & professional with communication as and when needed to share information.
I can and do recommend Simon as a Solicitor :0)

Avoid this firm like the plague. Simon Fishers incompetence meant a whole year waiting the conveyancing for my purchaser. During this time he lied repeatedly about my own extremely efficient solicitor being at fault, he lied to my solicitor about problems with the purchaser, lied to the purchaser about the finance company, he lied to me about where he was in the process, he lied to my purchasers finance company claiming he was waiting on stuff that the purchaser had sent months previously and he repeatedly asked my purchaser for the same pieces of paper to be sent as he claimed he couldn’t find them ( they were sent via email and replies were received and then 4 months later he would ask for the same things again). During this time I lost 4 properties, 4 survey fees and one lot of architects fees which cost me thousands. My purchaser had his interest rate raised because Simon took so long to complete the conveyancing work (this added an extra £450 a month on to his mortgage. Which will cost him an extra 80K on the purchase price). He made the purchaser buy insurance in July didn’t complete till Christmas and had the cheek to demand payment before he dropped the bomb about the interest rate. Told us that the finance company were at fault and when we reached the finance company they told us this was absolutely NOT true and although Simon had insisted he’d sent the file over to them they told us this categorically was not the case. When my purchaser told him the finance company were still waiting for the file he threatened to walk off the case!!! Do not use this solicitor. My own solicitor told me they had an appalling reputation and he was absolutely correct. A catalogue of errors, lies and transparent attempts at blaming everything and everyone else. Utterly incompetent AVOID IF YOU VALUE YOUR TIME, SANITY AND HARD EARNED CASH. Simon Fisher is not a competent lawyer and he can not convey the simple truth let alone a property

Had Geoff Gorman deal with our house purchase a few months back. Completely negligent, lazy, and unprofessional. He even got names, address, and monetary figures incorrect on the final contract! He was slow to get back to us, and slow to finalise any paperwork or commit to anything.

Maybe other solicitors at Luttons Dunford are better, but be warned!! I have gone as far as actively recommending people do not use this firm, and would never use them again.