Pressure to complete and move into a house without title deeds being registered

Tiglet2

A move agent is not a conveyancer or solicitor.  You can take everything they say with a pinch of salt!  They want the sale by any means, they don't care about the legal aspect or your mum.  The move agent is acting in the best interests of the seller, not the purchaser.  Please listen to your solicitor, who (if I can remind you) has only had the draft contracts for 5 weeks.  Your solicitor will not allow your mum to buy a property from the seller if they are not the legal owner at present.  The application to register the seller as the owner has to complete (and updated title deeds provided) before they can legally sell on to your mum.  What was the enquiry that "has now been answered" according to the move agent?

ashleyjames

Tiglet2 said:

A move agent is not a conveyancer or solicitor.  You can take everything they say with a pinch of salt!  They want the sale by any means, they don't care about the legal aspect or your mum.  The move agent is acting in the best interests of the seller, not the purchaser.  Please listen to your solicitor, who (if I can remind you) has only had the draft contracts for 5 weeks.  Your solicitor will not allow your mum to buy a property from the seller if they are not the legal owner at present.  The application to register the seller as the owner has to complete (and updated title deeds provided) before they can legally sell on to your mum.  What was the enquiry that "has now been answered" according to the move agent?

This is the thing. The question the move agent said had been answered we later found out from land registry direct that they haven't intact answered it at all. We have asked if we can find out what the enquiry is but nobody is updating mum. The last email received from the move agent as of this afternoon is that she has spoke to developer and emailed them and is hopeful we'll have some good news early next week.  Which again ..... pinch of salt. 

Tiglet2

ashleyjames said:

Tiglet2 said:

A move agent is not a conveyancer or solicitor.  You can take everything they say with a pinch of salt!  They want the sale by any means, they don't care about the legal aspect or your mum.  The move agent is acting in the best interests of the seller, not the purchaser.  Please listen to your solicitor, who (if I can remind you) has only had the draft contracts for 5 weeks.  Your solicitor will not allow your mum to buy a property from the seller if they are not the legal owner at present.  The application to register the seller as the owner has to complete (and updated title deeds provided) before they can legally sell on to your mum.  What was the enquiry that "has now been answered" according to the move agent?

This is the thing. The question the move agent said had been answered we later found out from land registry direct that they haven't intact answered it at all. We have asked if we can find out what the enquiry is but nobody is updating mum. The last email received from the move agent as of this afternoon is that she has spoke to developer and emailed them and is hopeful we'll have some good news early next week.  Which again ..... pinch of salt. 

The only person who can tell your mum what needs to be done or is outstanding is your mum's solicitor.  I appreciate that you and your mum are frustrated, but please contact your solicitor (not the Agent) for a response.  If they email you, then post the email on here and we can help explain it to you in layman's terms. 

I certainly don't think this is going to be completed in the next few weeks.  This is not a straight forward transaction.  There is the 40% shared ownership, the leasehold aspect to deal with and the seller is not the owner, which requires the Land Registry to register the new owner, but they cannot do that unless the paperwork submitted to them is correct.  If there are queries from the Land Registry (requisitions) then the submitting solicitor will have to re-submit further information, all of which delays the registration and hence the transaction overall.