Buying a house - so far taken coming up to 4 months

Sponge_Cake

I suppose there are three months to go until the mortgage agreement expires, so hopefully it'll all get sorted by then.

Thrugelmir

Sponge_Cake wrote: »

Unfortunately the seller's solicitor hasn't answered all the enquiries to a satisfactory standard and some parts haven't been answered at all !!!55357;!!!56852; massively disappointing.

Won't be the solicitor, will be the vendor(s) that's omitted to answer.

Noobie2011

Sponge_Cake wrote: »

So as the title suggests, this is currently the situation. It's so frustrating as the property we want to move into is vacant and was an ex rental property.
We rent and are FTB so no house to sell.

I'm currently awaiting the solicitors to read through the replies to enquiries sent to the seller's solicitor two weeks ago.
Our solicitors are supposed to be reviewing them and then getting back to us which I hoped would be the exchange of contracts stage.
I sent an email to my solicitor asking what the hold up was and I got a rather snotty email back which I wasn't very impressed by. Basically telling me they'll review any 'mail' they have received within 48 hours and practically telling me to leave them alone.

I'm not sure what to do now.

Get used to it as Solicitors work on their own time line and seem to have rules of their own in terms of how to treat their clients/customers. It does amaze me the way most act and their lack of professionalism sometimes and pro-activeness.

Maybe it is just me but there is no way you would get away with acting this way in any other job but sadly it is the way it is and you just have to wait and wait while they potter around taking days to get simple things done.

Kpossible929

We’re fjnally completing tomorrow. It’s taken us nearly 7 months, we started the whole process the first week of November! Admittedly there are 3 of us in the chain but the sellers at the end faded around for an eternity, refusing to move into rented (their purchase was the hold up) to finally decide they didn’t want to buy the house but they will still sell and move into their holiday home. To say we were unimpressed is an understatement but providing tomorrow goes smoothly it’s been worth the wait in the end!

Kpossible929

Also, it was really easy to get an extension. We had applied directly the the bank so used their mortgage advisor. We literally emailed her explaining, made an appointment, she checked nothing had changed, explained because of the interest rates it would work out at £4 more a month, checked we still wanted the same terms and did it there an then. No faffing or surveys to pay for etc. That was Halifax, the whole mortgage process was very easy with them to be honest, much more than we expected.