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Selling house problems
Hellen101
Posts: 3 Newbie
Hi Iv never done this before but I need some advice or speak to someone who has been through this before. Where do I start we are in the prosess of selling our house. We found out when the solicitors did the land checks that i half of our house is still in the previous owners name. We didn’t know after 4 years. It’s taken months to even get to contact the previous owners to get it changed over. But now the buyers are thinking of pulling out as it has taken so long. I need to know what rights we have and if we do loose the sale or just in general if we can get compensation for a big error that’s been made we just need a straight answers on what we can do
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Have you found out / been told how this happened? there are usually specific forms to be completed at the time of the purchase0
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No. We don’t even know how this has happened.0
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We found out when the solicitors did the land checks that i half of our house is still in the previous owners name.
A solicitor acted for you? Have you contacted him?
http://www.lawsociety.org.uk/for-the-public/using-a-solicitor/complaints/0 -
Yeah. We have the solicitors for the selling and now the ones we used for the sale house. But nothing has been done yet nearly over a month now0
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I would change solicitors as there could be a conflict of interests issue here.0
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The bottom line will be: If your solicitors made a mistake when you were buying the property, then they would be legally liable to pay you compensation for any "loss" you make.
At the moment you have no loss. If you lose your buyer, that is not a loss. A loss can only be determined once you've found another buyer and completed. It's only then that you can look back and say what loss you made.
If a loss has been made, as the result of something your first solicitor did, you then sue your first solicitor.
At the moment though .... you just have to sit and wait it out and see what happens in the end.... as that is the only time you could possibly declare and prove that you actually had a "loss".0
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