Yes, I'd go for proper solicitors over cheap conveyancers any day. Every transaction is different so the service will be different every time regardless as to the quality of your own reps - you can't choose your vendors' personalities, their onward agents or any other parties' solicitors who happen to be involved, and pretty much every property is different as well - so best to have the best people working for you to help things happen. Can't speak for everyone but I've had good experiences with several firms inside and outside of town - Bishop and Sewell, Glazer Delmar, Meaby and Co, Beverley Morris, Freedman Green Dhokia, Garner Canning, Irwin Mitchell in Birmingham, and many more I've forgotten. The prices vary. Avoid list available on request.