Probate house sale taking forever, what can we do...

sofsofsof

we are buying a house , its a probate sale and the guy has passed away. we are now on week 13 of house process. according to our solicitor is it his lawyers taking ages (seems to be semi true took 3 weeks to reply and fill out replies and then not fill them out completely .
is there anything we can do at all. come august our mortgage offer becomes invalid - meaning paid a broker for nothing if this happens! such a joke and so depressing.

G_M

Has Probate been granted? If you don't know, find out.

If it hasn't the property cannot be sold (until granted).

Is there any dispute regarding inheritance? Are all Beeficiaries and/or Executers in agreement with the sale? and the price?

sofsofsof

Probate is fine and ok. No relatives so guess £ going government. Apparently after these replies we can sign but his lawyers messed up last ones they took 3 weeks to do

Alter_ego

Are they saying probate is fine and OK? Or has probate been granted?

p00hsticks

sofsofsof wrote: »

Probate is fine and ok. No relatives so guess £ going government. Apparently after these replies we can sign but his lawyers messed up last ones they took 3 weeks to do

So who is 'he' if he's not a relative - just a solicitor who's the executor ?

sofsofsof

Probate granted

sofsofsof

Yes as far as we are aware solicitor is executor of house. She is named on documents as somethig (sorry) for guy who died.

G_M

Well "No relatives so guess £ going government" is one huge assumption. There might be a will leaving the estate to his Carer. Or to one or more charities.

And in some cases, charities enter legal disputes about the distribution between themselves, or if they perceive the sale price to be too low.

However, assuming Probate is granted, the Administrators have no obstruction or hesitation about selling, and the issue is just "these replies", then the fact it's Probate sale seems to be a Red Herring.

Your issue seems to be an inefficient vendor's solicitor. What advice do you want?

you can't complain yourself, as you have no contract with said solicitors. You could make a fuss direct to the vendors, but assuming they are ready and ably to sell, they proboably are already equally frustrated.

Or perhaps they've told their solcitor to 'slow down' for some reason you know nothing about.......

edit : just seen: "solicitor is executor of house. She is named on documents..." so clearly there was a will leaving the estate to...... someone. I've never heard of anyone leaving their estate to the gov!

Cakeguts

That is only about 3 months. It isn't long for buying a house.

getmore4less

Are you getting a mortgage?

If not you can forget most of the paperwork solicitor checks the title is valid and you buy it.

getmore4less

Get a copy of the grant and start doing some research.