To those selling in these difficult times Part Deux. AKA sellers support network!

azkaban420

Nothing much to report on my end, fed up with councils and everything, and fed up of hearing about lack of parking with my house. Am now going to try not to worry (DH put things into perspective and told me not to stress unnecessarily) and will wait until the council remove some of the double yellow lines. If the house sells in the meantime, great, if not, will just see what happens and if things change once the lines have been taken off - IF they council are true to their word.

Good luck to everyone for offers/viewings etc

Az

monkeys_bunny

Chin up Az. It will all work out in the end.

azkaban420

Thanks MB, am sure it will, just get down once in a while, will be my useful more cheerful self again soon hehe

Az

Karmacat

Good luck with the parking situation, Az - have the council said they'll do that? Sounds good. I'm very lucky with the parking situation on the house I'm moving to - just like this one, it only has houses on one side of the road for most of it, and there's offroad parking at the house. Still, people complain about the parking here - its the suburbs, and most people have more than one car :o:o

My neighbours like living next to me cos I don't have *any* cars

elona

Mortgage surveyor for our "cash buyer" came round yesterday morning:eek:

Our solicitor was going to phone yesterday and find out if the completion date of 21st is still on due to this survey only being done yesterday.

DH is frantically putting stuff in boxes but we can't book removal company etc till we are sure of the sale. DH hopes to get the keys of temp rental on Friday night this week and as it is just over the road it seems silly to get big removal company in.

Sitting by the phone scared to miss a call that might tell me what is going on.

Wondering if it might be best to just assume things will go ahead and book van etc for moving heavy stuff next week.

monkeys_bunny

can you not provisionally book the removal van, explaining the situation ?

not_loaded

monkeys_bunny wrote: »

How is it an earner for the Solicitor? unless you have an underhand one that charges you more than the search costs, Solicitors get nothing out of having to re do searches only extra work.

If you read their Ts and Cs you’ll see that a normal solicitor will charge for disbursements. They’ll also charge for the time they spend working on your behalf. Charge rates I’ve come across recently are £120 to £205 per hour. The disbursement will be the actual charge passed on, and their charge for time as per the hourly rate. In many years I haven’t found a solicitor that’ll quote a firm, fixed price for work of this nature. Even the conveyancing factories quote a specific price and their small print says similar to the above.

monkeys_bunny wrote: »

As i mentioned before its all to do with whether you are getting a mortgage or not, as the local authority search is a requirement of the mortgage lender along with lots of other things.

The presence of a lender in the process most definitely makes the solicitor pay special interest to getting it right. Even without a lender involved you could fall foul of a brand new planning application (for example) that significantly affects you in your new property. You should logically be only too pleased to have up-to-date searches carried out as late as possible.

monkeys_bunny wrote: »

you could even do the search yourself through your Council if you liked, its only a form to fill in to instigate it.

That’s true, but if the conveyancing is placed with a solicitor or licensed conveyancer he/she will want to be in control of the whole job.

Unfortunately there are times when the MSE mindset can be bad for you. Let’s all save where it makes sense, yes, but a property purchase is surely one occasion where no one should moan about a few hundred quid on this work. I’d view it as insurance, and definitely not something to economise on.

Karmacat

Good luck Elona! It might well be worth checking if they do provisional bookings.... I'm going to have to check that situation myself soon. If you check now, at least you'll know if some firms are full up? Even these days, they *might* be, because they've lost capacity.

elona

Hi MB

DH phoned a company last week and got a phone quote of £700 plus
VAT to move us "across the road and three houses to our right".

I think one of our neighburs might know someone so will ask him if DH continues to dither. DD s and DH have forbidden me to lift, carry, pack or exert myself in case I get ill again - so I now feel useless and stressed which was not their intention. Sigh.

Neighbour a few doors down had a viewing at the weekend - turned out the viewers really wanted to see our house but EA had said we were sold stc. EA did not tell us about it though which is useful to know if sale goes belly up.

monkeys_bunny

not_loaded wrote: »

If you read their Ts and Cs you’ll see that a normal solicitor will charge for disbursements. They’ll also charge for the time they spend working on your behalf. Charge rates I’ve come across recently are £120 to £205 per hour. The disbursement will be the actual charge passed on, and their charge for time as per the hourly rate. In many years I haven’t found a solicitor that’ll quote a firm, fixed price for work of this nature. Even the conveyancing factories quote a specific price and their small print says similar to the above.

The presence of a lender in the process most definitely makes the solicitor pay special interest to getting it right. Even without a lender involved you could fall foul of a brand new planning application (for example) that significantly affects you in your new property. You should logically be only too pleased to have up-to-date searches carried out as late as possible.

That’s true, but if the conveyancing is placed with a solicitor or licensed conveyancer he/she will want to be in control of the whole job.

ha ha you should move to Bridlington then by the sound of it, must be different in your part of the country. Here you go to your Solicitors/ conveyancers they give you a fixed price normally around £400 /£450.00 plus VAT AND Disbursements. The £400 is the price you are paying them to do the job, the disbursements are also listed for your to see and are only the cost of the actual disbursements i.e. £200 land reg fee, £120.00 local and drainage search (if no HIP to start with ) etc etc and, yes they normally say if another disbursements then they will let you know before they charge in these rare cases, but they do only charge what they actually cost so they got no money from it or charge for their time.

The solicitors around here work on the ' time' cost factor in other matter that are not Conveyancing, such as divorce, litigation etc. I know its different for every part of the country and I do only try and give general advise to people on here based on what I know. I only hope people realize that and take my suggestions the way they are intended and investigate things for themselves as well.