Rattled a few feathers with my house buyers solicitor?

Spank

prowla said:

(I guess my post was removed for some reason...)

Are you sure it was this thread? you've commented on one that is titled just like this your reply was about emailing here https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/77470960#Comment_77470960

The_Rainmaker

Grumpy_chap said:

The correct communication route is for you to talk to your solicitor who talk to the next solicitors who talk to the buyer.  However onerous that seems, bypassing any of these routes will ultimately cause delay and confusion.

I sold a flat last year and time dragged on so I phoned the buyer who informed me my lawyer was sitting on his !!!!!! doing nothing.  My lawyer wasn't very happy when I told him I had spoken to the buyer.

The one thing to remember with most lawyers is they are only interested in themselves and their fees

Aylesbury_Duck

When I last moved, my solicitor was based in the same town square as my buyer's solicitor.  I had to drop off a collection of gas, boiler and electrical certificates to my solicitor because they were requested by my buyer.  My solicitor used Royal Mail to deliver the envelope, presumably posting them in the post box in that same town square, where they would have gone on a circuitous route around the country before arriving pretty much next door a couple of days later!

rubble2

Aylesbury_Duck said:

When I last moved, my solicitor was based in the same town square as my buyer's solicitor.  I had to drop off a collection of gas, boiler and electrical certificates to my solicitor because they were requested by my buyer.  My solicitor used Royal Mail to deliver the envelope, presumably posting them in the post box in that same town square, where they would have gone on a circuitous route around the country before arriving pretty much next door a couple of days later!

Similar experience a few years ago when buying and selling. all the solicitors and estate agents tended to set up shop on one particular road in the town. In this instance our solicitor was directly opposite the seller's solicitor on the opposite side of the road - you could literally see into their reception area from our solicitors reception area, but on numerous occasions when chasing things up I was told how they had posted documents to each other or were expecting documents from the other solicitor and would update me when the post had been delivered.

csgohan4

rubble2 said:

Aylesbury_Duck said:

When I last moved, my solicitor was based in the same town square as my buyer's solicitor.  I had to drop off a collection of gas, boiler and electrical certificates to my solicitor because they were requested by my buyer.  My solicitor used Royal Mail to deliver the envelope, presumably posting them in the post box in that same town square, where they would have gone on a circuitous route around the country before arriving pretty much next door a couple of days later!

Similar experience a few years ago when buying and selling. all the solicitors and estate agents tended to set up shop on one particular road in the town. In this instance our solicitor was directly opposite the seller's solicitor on the opposite side of the road - you could literally see into their reception area from our solicitors reception area, but on numerous occasions when chasing things up I was told how they had posted documents to each other or were expecting documents from the other solicitor and would update me when the post had been delivered.

Probably delay tactic and audit trail purposes with proof of posting

Kyresa

Quite simply, one of the special conditions of the contract will say that the buyer can only rely on correspondence received between solicitors.   You sending the correspondence directly to the buyer means they won't be able to rely on it.

lesalanos

Surely thats a good thing if they're not going at a faster pace than you would like?

billy2shots

Don't upset our antiquated house buying / selling system!!!

There is too much money to be made from the 'professionals ' involved in buying and selling to have the likes of us making the process simpler and quicker. Working in a nice slow painstaking fashion justifies fees. Streamlining that process would result in having to lower said fees. 

In all seriousness, in this digital age we are in there is no excuse for delays. The system should be brought up to date to the point searches could be carried out live by having access to a database. Yes there's a lot of legwork involved in compiling the info but if you start somewhere like everytime a new house is buil or everytime one is sold or bought then it's very much doable. As things change over time, a new refuse site opens, flood zones change etc the data can be amended. 

Kyresa

billy2shots said:

Don't upset our antiquated house buying / selling system!!!

There is too much money to be made from the 'professionals ' involved in buying and selling to have the likes of us making the process simpler and quicker. Working in a nice slow painstaking fashion justifies fees. Streamlining that process would result in having to lower said fees. 

In all seriousness, in this digital age we are in there is no excuse for delays. The system should be brought up to date to the point searches could be carried out live by having access to a database. Yes there's a lot of legwork involved in compiling the info but if you start somewhere like everytime a new house is buil or everytime one is sold or bought then it's very much doable. As things change over time, a new refuse site opens, flood zones change etc the data can be amended. 

Except, well for solicitors at least, residential conveyancing is pretty much fixed fee these days and you can't charge a client for "delays".      

billy2shots

Kyresa said:

billy2shots said:

Don't upset our antiquated house buying / selling system!!!

There is too much money to be made from the 'professionals ' involved in buying and selling to have the likes of us making the process simpler and quicker. Working in a nice slow painstaking fashion justifies fees. Streamlining that process would result in having to lower said fees. 

In all seriousness, in this digital age we are in there is no excuse for delays. The system should be brought up to date to the point searches could be carried out live by having access to a database. Yes there's a lot of legwork involved in compiling the info but if you start somewhere like everytime a new house is buil or everytime one is sold or bought then it's very much doable. As things change over time, a new refuse site opens, flood zones change etc the data can be amended. 

Except, well for solicitors at least, residential conveyancing is pretty much fixed fee these days and you can't charge a client for "delays".      

The point is those fees can be reduced and  time of process shortened.