Awaiting Grant of Propate

SevenOfNine

SmlSave wrote: »

Probate can take 6 plus months if not longer.

It must work differently in N.Ireland - you're not allowed in the house till completion in England

We submitted our probate forms on 25th Feb, were told last week to send or call in to swear the oath (we did it in local solicitors for £5), & hand delivered it to our closest probate office on Friday.

Been advised by them that the Grant should take 10 working days. In the meantime 3 estate agents were happy to get the house on the market, a buyer has made an offer & a solicitor is progressing the sale, up to the point when we must have the Grant before completion.

No idea how 'different' this might be in Ireland, but the EA should have told you it was a probate home, tell them or your solicitor to find out what point the probate application has reached.

Stop going in & fiddling about with a house you don't own. They should not be encouraging you do that.

davidmcn

meole86 wrote: »

does it matter that I have carried out work on the house?

Only that you've possibly been wasting your time.

meole86

I wanted to make a start on the house because their was alot of work to do to it as it is in need of modernisation the only reason why I decieded to do this as my partner and I are expecting our first child. I will contact my solicitor and see what my options are.

AdrianC

Until completion, you aren't working on your house. You're working on somebody else's house. It's very kind of you, but until exchange of contract, you don't even have any legal agreement that it'll ever be your house.

There may be a very easy reason why you weren't told about probate when you viewed and offered - the previous owner hadn't died at that stage, but was in hospital or a care home. Now they have, everything is on hold until probate is granted. At that point, you're dealing with the new owner of the house, who may not be the same person as whoever was dealing with it on the now-late owner's behalf. All bets may yet be off.