# Maximum Inheritance

> Estate Planning & Inheritance Tax Specialists
> Last updated: 2026-10-27

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- [Probate Valuation: How an Estate and a House Are Valued](https://www.max-inheritance.co.uk/probate-valuation/): A probate valuation is the open market value of everything the person owned on the day they died, meaning the price each asset might reasonably have fetched if it had been sold that day. A house is valued by an estate agent or a chartered surveyor, and anything worth over £1,500 can be professionally valued. […]
- [Can You Sell a House Before Probate?](https://www.max-inheritance.co.uk/can-you-sell-a-house-before-probate/): You can put a house on the market and agree a sale before probate is granted, but exchange of contracts and completion wait for the grant in practice, because the buyer’s conveyancer needs it to see that the executors can transfer the house. Most of the work that makes a quick sale possible can still […]
- [Executor Duties in Order, and Where You Are Personally Liable](https://www.max-inheritance.co.uk/executor-duties/): An executor’s duties run in a set order: register the death, secure the property, find the will, assets and debts, value the estate, deal with inheritance tax, apply for probate, collect everything in, pay the debts and taxes, prepare the accounts, and only then distribute. Take a step out of order and the bill can […]
- [What Happens to Power of Attorney After Death?](https://www.max-inheritance.co.uk/what-happens-to-power-of-attorney-after-death/): If you have been acting as someone’s attorney and that person has now died, the lasting power of attorney ended at the moment of death. Everything it used to cover passed to the executors named in the will, or where there is no will, to whoever is entitled to apply to be the administrator, and […]
- [How Much Does a Deed of Variation Cost?](https://www.max-inheritance.co.uk/how-much-does-a-deed-of-variation-cost/): At the firms that publish a figure, a deed of variation prepared on its own starts from around £350 plus VAT, and most will only quote properly once they have seen the estate. Where I am administering the estate, drafting the deed is part of the £1,880 fixed fee and there is no separate charge […]


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