# What are searches when buying a house (9 sources)

> The Purchase Statutory Costs carries 9 published figures read from 8 sources' own pages, from 99.92 to 300,000 GBP, read 16 October 2026.

Keysvo · https://keysvo.com/datasets/purchase-statutory-costs/ · computed 2026-10-19

**Range of the published figures:** 99.92 to 300,000 GBP (range 99.92 to 300,000 GBP; 9 sources with a figure; 8 of 14 sources read publish one).

8 of the 14 named sources read in full publish a figure; 6 publish none, read 16 October 2026.

## By charge

| Breakdown | Median | Range | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|
| charge SDLT residential threshold | 125,000 GBP | 125,000 to 125,000 GBP | 1 |
| charge SDLT first-time buyer threshold | 300,000 GBP | 300,000 to 300,000 GBP | 1 |
| charge LBTT nil-rate threshold | 145,000 GBP | 145,000 to 145,000 GBP | 1 |
| charge LTT nil-rate threshold | 250,000 GBP | 250,000 to 250,000 GBP | 1 |
| charge CON29 residential | 106.96 GBP | 99.92 to 114 GBP | 2 |
| charge LLC1 and CON29 standard search | 176.75 GBP | 167 to 186.5 GBP | 2 |
| charge HM Land Registry Scale 1 fee | 330 GBP | 330 to 330 GBP | 1 |

## Every figure, with its source

One row per source: the figure the source's own page publishes, the page, and the day it was read.

| Source | Figure | Breakdown | Read |
|---|---|---|---|
| [HMRC Stamp Duty Land Tax overview](https://www.gov.uk/stamp-duty-land-tax) | 300,000 GBP | SDLT first-time buyer threshold | 2026-10-16 |
| [Welsh Revenue Authority Land Transaction Tax rates and bands](https://www.gov.wales/land-transaction-tax-rates-and-bands) | 250,000 GBP | LTT nil-rate threshold | 2026-10-16 |
| [Revenue Scotland Land and Buildings Transaction Tax: residential](https://revenue.scot/taxes/land-buildings-transaction-tax/residential-property) | 145,000 GBP | LBTT nil-rate threshold | 2026-10-16 |
| [HMRC Stamp Duty Land Tax overview](https://www.gov.uk/stamp-duty-land-tax) | 125,000 GBP | SDLT residential threshold | 2026-10-16 |
| [HM Land Registry Registration Services fees](https://www.gov.uk/guidance/hm-land-registry-registration-services-fees) | 330 GBP | HM Land Registry Scale 1 fee | 2026-10-16 |
| [Ipswich Borough Council land charges search fees](https://www.ipswich.gov.uk/planning-and-building-control/land-charges/search-fees) | 186.5 GBP | LLC1 and CON29 standard search | 2026-10-16 |
| [London Borough of Havering local land charges](https://www.havering.gov.uk/info/20034/planning/472/search_for_local_land_charges) | 167 GBP | LLC1 and CON29 standard search | 2026-10-16 |
| [Merton Council local land charges search](https://www.merton.gov.uk/planning-and-buildings/local-land-charges-search) | 114 GBP | CON29 residential | 2026-10-16 |
| [Bristol City Council local land charges search costs](https://www.bristol.gov.uk/business/planning-and-building-regulations-for-business/local-land-charges-search/local-land-charges-search-costs) | 99.92 GBP | CON29 residential | 2026-10-16 |

## The sentence each figure was read from (9)

- [HMRC Stamp Duty Land Tax overview](https://www.gov.uk/stamp-duty-land-tax), read 2026-10-16: "£300,000 for first-time buyers buying a residential property worth £500,000 or less"
- [Welsh Revenue Authority Land Transaction Tax rates and bands](https://www.gov.wales/land-transaction-tax-rates-and-bands), read 2026-10-16: "Price threshold LTT rate The portion up to and including £250,000 0%"
- [Revenue Scotland Land and Buildings Transaction Tax: residential](https://revenue.scot/taxes/land-buildings-transaction-tax/residential-property), read 2026-10-16: "Purchase price LBTT rate Up to £145,000 0%"
- [HMRC Stamp Duty Land Tax overview](https://www.gov.uk/stamp-duty-land-tax), read 2026-10-16: "SDLT starts to apply when you buy property that costs: £125,000 for residential properties"
- [HM Land Registry Registration Services fees](https://www.gov.uk/guidance/hm-land-registry-registration-services-fees), read 2026-10-16: "£200,001 to £500,000 £330 £150 £330 £250"
- [Ipswich Borough Council land charges search fees](https://www.ipswich.gov.uk/planning-and-building-control/land-charges/search-fees), read 2026-10-16: "LLC1 and Part 1 Con29R Enquiries: £159.17 + £27.33 VAT = £186.50"
- [London Borough of Havering local land charges](https://www.havering.gov.uk/info/20034/planning/472/search_for_local_land_charges), read 2026-10-16: "Fees and charges (residential and commercial) LLC1 and CON29 Part 1 Enquiries - £167"
- [Merton Council local land charges search](https://www.merton.gov.uk/planning-and-buildings/local-land-charges-search), read 2026-10-16: "CON 29 form £95 £19 £114"
- [Bristol City Council local land charges search costs](https://www.bristol.gov.uk/business/planning-and-building-regulations-for-business/local-land-charges-search/local-land-charges-search-costs), read 2026-10-16: "Type of search Fee Con29 Residential £83.26 (£99.92 with VAT)"

## Read in full, publishes no figure

- [HMRC Stamp Duty Land Tax: residential property rates](https://www.gov.uk/stamp-duty-land-tax/residential-property-rates), read 2026-09-11: every candidate on the page was refused
- [HM Land Registry fees index](https://www.gov.uk/guidance/hm-land-registry-fees), read 2026-10-02: every candidate on the page was refused
- [The Land Registration Fees Order 1996](https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/187/made), read 2026-09-11: every candidate on the page was refused
- [Birmingham City Council local land charges searches](https://www.birmingham.gov.uk/info/20008/planning_and_development/28/local_land_charges_searches), read 2026-09-11: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- [City of Doncaster Council local land charges and eSearch](https://www.doncaster.gov.uk/services/planning/local-land-charges-and-esearch), read 2026-09-25: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- [London Borough of Barking and Dagenham local land charges](https://www.lbbd.gov.uk/planning-building-control-and-local-land-charges/local-land-charges), read 2026-10-02: read in full and no accepted figure on the page

## Methodology

Every row is a verbatim sentence read from the named source's own page through our fetch service on the date shown, hash-pinned to the stored read (the sha of the page's visible text; the raw page is mirrored to R2). 8 of the 14 named sources that could be read published a usable figure; 6 published none and are recorded as not published, never filled in; 0 could not be read (blocked, dead or unreachable) and count nowhere. The headline figures (median, minimum, maximum, quartiles) are over ONE figure per source for each breakdown it prices, in GBP (a source's median where its page yielded several accepted sentences for one breakdown), so a page that gives figures for several breakdowns gives one for each and N counts 9 figures, never sentences; 96 candidate sentence(s) were refused by a reviewer with the reason recorded. The fuller derivation this dataset is chartered to grow into (not yet what the figures above are; they are each source's own published figure as read): one row per statutory charge per jurisdiction per effective date, quoted verbatim from the authority's own page: the SDLT, LBTT and LTT band tables with their surcharges and first-time-buyer reliefs, the HM Land Registry Scale 1 and Scale 2 fees, and, the part nobody aggregates, the LLC1 and CON29 fee published by EVERY billing authority, with its VAT treatment, because LLC1 is exempt and CON29 is standard-rated and a headline 'search fee' is therefore not comparable across councils until it is normalised. The derivation is the spread: the cheapest and dearest local search in England and Wales, the median, and the map, computed from councils' own fee schedules; plus the total statutory cost of a purchase at a given price in each of the three jurisdictions, side by side, which no single authority publishes because no single authority owns all three numbers.

## Sources

- [HMRC Stamp Duty Land Tax: residential property rates](https://www.gov.uk/stamp-duty-land-tax/residential-property-rates) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [HMRC Stamp Duty Land Tax overview](https://www.gov.uk/stamp-duty-land-tax) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [Revenue Scotland Land and Buildings Transaction Tax: residential](https://revenue.scot/taxes/land-buildings-transaction-tax/residential-property) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [Welsh Revenue Authority Land Transaction Tax rates and bands](https://www.gov.wales/land-transaction-tax-rates-and-bands) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [HM Land Registry Registration Services fees](https://www.gov.uk/guidance/hm-land-registry-registration-services-fees) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [HM Land Registry fees index](https://www.gov.uk/guidance/hm-land-registry-fees) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [The Land Registration Fees Order 1996](https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/187/made) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [Bristol City Council local land charges search costs](https://www.bristol.gov.uk/business/planning-and-building-regulations-for-business/local-land-charges-search/local-land-charges-search-costs) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [Ipswich Borough Council land charges search fees](https://www.ipswich.gov.uk/planning-and-building-control/land-charges/search-fees) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [Merton Council local land charges search](https://www.merton.gov.uk/planning-and-buildings/local-land-charges-search) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [London Borough of Havering local land charges](https://www.havering.gov.uk/info/20034/planning/472/search_for_local_land_charges) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [Birmingham City Council local land charges searches](https://www.birmingham.gov.uk/info/20008/planning_and_development/28/local_land_charges_searches) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [City of Doncaster Council local land charges and eSearch](https://www.doncaster.gov.uk/services/planning/local-land-charges-and-esearch) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [London Borough of Barking and Dagenham local land charges](https://www.lbbd.gov.uk/planning-building-control-and-local-land-charges/local-land-charges) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)

## Cite or embed

- The Purchase Statutory Costs carries 9 published figures read from 8 sources' own pages, from 99.92 to 300,000 GBP, read 16 October 2026.
- 8 of the 14 named sources read in full publish a figure; 6 publish none, read 16 October 2026.
- Purchase Statutory Costs, charge SDLT residential threshold: median 125,000 GBP across 1 source, read 16 October 2026.
- Purchase Statutory Costs, charge SDLT first-time buyer threshold: median 300,000 GBP across 1 source, read 16 October 2026.
- Purchase Statutory Costs, charge LBTT nil-rate threshold: median 145,000 GBP across 1 source, read 16 October 2026.
- Purchase Statutory Costs, charge LTT nil-rate threshold: median 250,000 GBP across 1 source, read 16 October 2026.
- Purchase Statutory Costs, charge CON29 residential: median 106.96 GBP across 2 sources, read 16 October 2026.
- Purchase Statutory Costs, charge LLC1 and CON29 standard search: median 176.75 GBP across 2 sources, read 16 October 2026.
- Purchase Statutory Costs, charge HM Land Registry Scale 1 fee: median 330 GBP across 1 source, read 16 October 2026.

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