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Should I stuck with the developer's solictors or change him

Sassii · 2014-01-22 16:29:24

I'm a first time buyer and we are currently in the middle of exchange contract at new build purchases with Taylor wimpy We used the developer's recommended solicitor to do the conveyancing because of the incentives that seller offered if I did that. After I sent my comments on the contract to solicitor and got reply, I'm…

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littlesparkles Posts: 380 Forumite

23 January 2014 at 7:03PM

I bought from TW in 2012 and had a long stop date built into the contract. This said completion before a particular date. In the end it was 7 days before this. The main reason TW gave into this was because I had a buyer for my property who was getting restless with the delay I'm setting a completion date so TW agreed to exchange with the long stop date to save losing my buyer and therefore TW losing me as a buyer.

The things you are questioning were standard in my contract.

I think there was a completion window mentioned somewhere it. So many months from exchange - way over what it was going to be! So this would have stopped it dragging on for years if TW couldn't build it for some reason.

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