How important are Conveyancing Protocol Documents?

Woolington

Hi all,
summary: four equal executors and beneficiaries.  Probate through. House sold.
One executor has filled in (and signed) the protocol docs.  and they've been submitted before we've seen them, as a Draft Contract.  Having now seen them, there are errors.  Small things like carpets when there aren't any, no flooding when it does etc. and perhaps the most important error - house not in a conservation area when it is.
The conveyancer said that if I put up any objections that mean the paperwork has to be retrieved and altered she'll walk off the job and wants me to just sign the Contract.
Are they important? will the errors come to light in any case?
(sorry to labour this but I'm being asked to sign asap)
Thanks in anticipation!

AdrianC

"no flooding when it does" is the most important thing.

A putative buyer can see where there is or isn't carpet.
Conservation area is something that the searches will pick up - and may be regarded as a benefit by many buyers anyway.

But... flooding...?

As for your conveyancer, if they're that melodramatic as to threaten to flounce over corrections to errors, then you're better off without them anyway.

Tiglet2

The buyer's solicitor will peruse all the protocol forms and compare them with other information they hold, such as the sales particulars, the environmental search, drainage & water search and the local search and if there are some points which don't match, they will raise enquiries about them. 

The sales particulars will be a visual evidence about the carpets, the searches will show if the area is in an area prone to flooding and the local search will reveal that the property is in a conservation area.

As sellers, if anything comes to light which you become aware of you should advise your solicitor of it and sounds like you have.  I cannot believe your solicitor would threaten to dis-instruct you over bringing something to their attention to correct materially wrong information.

As there are four sellers, I am surprised that you weren't all asked to sign the protocol documents, unless it had been agreed that only one of you acted on behalf of the others.  It would have had to be confirmed in writing by the three others that they were renouncing their role as executors or by preferring to have power reserved.

greatcrested

Please - no more new threads on this same topic!

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/6113687/conveyancing-draft-contract-procedure-query#latest

I assume after the last issue you contacted the conveyancer and hence that led to the 'flouncing'? But that's very unprofessional.

Do the right thing and insist on the documents being amended before you sign - if the conveyancer flounces off then you'll be able to get a decent replacement. And don't whatever you do pay the conveyancing bill he/she sends!