Lazy Conveyancer?

Flyingpig

Ive copied this over from the waiting to exchange thread, hope thats ok!

DIP sorted: 10/05/16
Viewed 'dream house': 14/05/16
Offer accepted by vendor: 18/05/16
Instructed Solicitor & Applied for mortgage: 19/05/16
Valuation: 24/05/16
Mortgage offer from Natwest: 28/05/16
Accepted offer on our property: 07/06/16
Instructed Solicitor to do searches: 08/06/16
Our buyer has booked survey for: 16/06/16

Everything plodding ahead nicely until our solicitor phoned us last Wed to tell us that she has had absolutely NOTHING from our vendors solicitor Ezie conveyancing AT ALL.

I text the vendor and told him we haven't heard anything and he said he would get them to get in contact asap. Had email from our solicitor this morning and told us they have still had nothing from them. I have text him again, but I don't want to pester him! Surely we should have had something from them after a month? Our sol certainly thinks so.

The vendor was keen for a quick sale so we dropped our price. Our buyer has sold their house to a cash buyer (investor who wants to complete in 6 weeks), and the vendor is chain free as he is emigrating and has no onward purchase, and we want to move in the summer holidays.

I know this is more of a mini rant but for someone keen for a quick sale appointing Ezie doesnt look like a good move! :eek: :eek: :eek:

marksoton

Flyingpig wrote: »

The vendor was keen for a quick sale so we dropped our price.

:doh:...............................

Flyingpig

marksoton wrote: »

:doh:...............................

Exactly how I feel!! We only dropped by 5k but still feels like a kick in the teeth!!!

dc197

Are Ezie Conveyancing a cheap & cheerful online firm? They seem to be a trading name of Premier Property Lawyers, whose online reviews (https://uk.trustpilot.com/review/premierpropertylawyers.com) seem (to me, at a quick glance) to be a mixture of 1-stars from real clients and 5-stars reviews created by their own staff.

Flyingpig

dc197 wrote: »

Are Ezie Conveyancing a cheap & cheerful online firm? They seem to be a trading name of Premier Property Lawyers, whose online reviews (https://uk.trustpilot.com/review/premierpropertylawyers.com) seem (to me, at a quick glace) to be a mixture of 1-stars from real clients and 5-stars reviews created by their own staff.

House is being sold through purplebricks and Ezie are their 'inhouse' conveyancers. Cheap and no so cheerful by the looks of it

m0bov

Should have memo of sale I think within a few days. Why has your sol not contacted theirs? I would be very angry with your own Sol has they have just let it go for a month. What did you Sol say?

Tell the vendor his Sol has 24hrs to get the memo over or its back on market.

Flyingpig

The memo of sale is automatically generated by purplerbricks and sent to the solicitor whose details i put in the website. Thats all they have had. My solicitor has emailed, phoned and sent 2 unanswered letters.

eddddy

Are you sure it's not the vendors delaying? Have they actually instructed their conveyancers to proceed?

Could the vendors be hiding something from you? e.g.
- They're not sure if they want to sell to you
- They've lost the place they want to buy
- Or they're just a bit dippy and haven't returned all the forms etc

A good local EA would be phoning the vendor every few days to find out progress and chase them. Plus phoning the EA that your vendor is buying through to check progress (and phoning other EAs up the chain).

Are purplebricks good at that kind of sales progression?

m0bov

Flyingpig wrote: »

The memo of sale is automatically generated by purplerbricks and sent to the solicitor whose details i put in the website. Thats all they have had. My solicitor has emailed, phoned and sent 2 unanswered letters.

Arr in that case get the property back on the market NOW, if the vendor comes good fine. I would'nt bother with the vendor, they should have been in contact with their Sol to check progress and would have picked it up. Maybe they are looking at another property and keeping you hanging on??

m0bov

From the other poster, a good point. What is your EA doing about this? Again, I would be unhappy at the people I was paying, rather than those I'm not.

warby68

Could they have been waiting for you to be able to proceed - you hadn't sold yours when your offer was accepted if I have it right?

Your solicitor and the respective agents need to chase everyone up rather than you although if you have a direct route to the vendor I'd use that