Quick question

moneyistooshorttomention

I just want to know when the Law Society Property Information Form was introduced/became mandatory for vendors of property to fill in please.

DaftyDuck

As far as I know, it isn't mandatory even today, although it does form part of the contract once signed and returned. I've certainly had a swift sale ten years ago, where I was only able to fill in a small part, for lack of knowledge. Certainly, it keeps being updated and changed (your favorite subject being a recent addition), and there were widely differing versions in the 90's.

I filled in some version of it back in the early 90's, and still have copies of that one. That's when I started this buying and selling habit, and they've always been included in the process in some form.

It'll take a more-ancient member to take it further back than the 90's.

silvercar

DaftyDuck wrote: »

As far as I know, it isn't mandatory even today, although it does form part of the contract once signed and returned. I've certainly had a swift sale ten years ago, where I was only able to fill in a small part, for lack of knowledge. Certainly, it keeps being updated and changed (your favorite subject being a recent addition), and there were widely differing versions in the 90's.

I filled in some version of it back in the early 90's, and still have copies of that one. That's when I started this buying and selling habit, and they've always been included in the process in some form.

It'll take a more-ancient member to take it further back than the 90's.

Late 80s and I remember our solicitor getting quite annoyed that the seller's solicitor had used an older version of the form and had promptly written to them asking for answers to the questions that were now included on the new form.

I thought that was the first update to the form and that previously to that each solicitor had their own list of questions. May be wrong, may be getting senile now I have passed the more ancient age of 50.

bouicca21

I'm pretty sure I didn't have to do one when I bought and sold in 1995, as i would have had to declare complaints against a nightmare noisy neighbour. We did have to declare what things we were taking/leaving but that was about all, and it certainly wasn't the detailed form we completed when selling the marital home last year.

Davesnave

I don't remember filling one in in 1987, or receiving one, but everything was very relaxed back then. We sold privately and we bought our friends' house privately too.

All I remember now was that our trendy solicitor had new offices she couldn't afford, so there was no furniture. We all took our shoes off and sat in a circle on the posh new carpet to look through stuff together.....I think I'd still recommend that.

moneyistooshorttomention

Yep...I'm asking because I don't recall receiving one from my vendors when I bought my starter house in the mid-1980s. Doesn't mean to say there wasn't one - but I did keep all the paperwork I had on that house until I sold it in 2013 and remember having a general look-through of that to see what I should pass onto my buyer from those historical records and I don't think one surfaced then....:think:

Hence my assuming this must be some pretty modern requirement.

My solicitor then was "modern" - but not trendy - and they used to be efficient at that time...HUGE offices and they've now got absolutely enormous offices...

DaftyDuck

So, does that make Dave old enough to pre-date their introduction, or just old enough to be senile?

moneyistooshorttomention

:rotfl:Oh...I don't think Dave is senile somehow...:rotfl:

Davesnave

moneyistooshorttomention wrote: »

:rotfl:Oh...I don't think Dave is senile somehow...:rotfl:

You don't know how long I spend looking for stuff I've mislaid, or how often I buy food we already have!

But what silvercar said rings a bell, about each solicitor having their own form for these questions, though we must surely have been on a standardised version by '87.

We'd have filled one in for our buyer too, but I don't recall. After all,here was no reason to see anything on it as potentially contentious.