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Good thing or bad to have same solicitors as sellers?
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Can't you go to another solicitor in the same street so they can hand documents to one another? :-)
I just got quotes from local solicitors and went with the one who did my will (through Unite union). The quotes were all within £100 of each other anyway.0 -
When I sold to someone who had up to then been using the same solicitors as me (they had just sold her house) they told her that they couldn't continue to act for her and and directed her to another firm. They couldn't refuse to act for me because they were already engaged so it had to be her as buyer that moved. This was in Scotland so there may be different rules here.0
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The above is true. As seller of a property, regardless of shared solicitor, there are a few risks, but they pale into insignificance against the risks for a buyer.chickaroonee wrote: »I wouldn't do it, as the buyer you have by far the biggest risk to bear. As a seller I might.
As buyer, I would never do it.You might as well ask the Wizard of Oz to give you a big number as pay a Credit Referencing Agency for a so-called 'credit-score'0
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