Searches delay advice

sam121285

Hi all. 

My solicitor sent off for searches on 17th July. We where advised they would be back by 5th August. As of yet we haven’t got them back. Spoke to solicitor on Friday who said the company they use are delayed and as a firm they have now Switched to a New company but ours where done using old one. They said when they chase them up they give them different excuses each time and have a number of clients in our situation. 

My question is what can I do? It was mentioned paying again to use the new company who have a time of two weeks. Now I’m not overly keen on this idea but we just don’t seem to have an end sight to our searches coming back. Really unimpressed with out solicitor! Our buyer is starting to get restless as they wanted to be in before September as they have moved their children schools.  

Can I do anything?? Any advice would be appreciated as I feel so frustrated just waiting but maybe I’m just being impatient??

diego_94

The only thing you can do is chase them up youselves. I got the same BS from our solicitor, chased up the local authority and the company, turns out the solicitor never applied for them! kicked off, and miraculously they were applied for and back within 5 days.

kasqueak

You can’t do much other than chase them up. The time for them to come back varies hugely amongst the local authorities involved. I am in the process of buying and ours took 3 weeks to come back and then 2 weeks for my solicitor to review them to raise queries to the sellers solicitor. 

sam121285

kasqueak said:

You can’t do much other than chase them up. The time for them to come back varies hugely amongst the local authorities involved. I am in the process of buying and ours took 3 weeks to come back and then 2 weeks for my solicitor to review them to raise queries to the sellers solicitor. 

Im chasing daily. If it was a delay with the local authority I would understand but both my buyer and the person we are buying off have had searches back, both send after ours and both in the same local authority as us! Frustrating!

sam121285

diego_94 said:

The only thing you can do is chase them up youselves. I got the same BS from our solicitor, chased up the local authority and the company, turns out the solicitor never applied for them! kicked off, and miraculously they were applied for and back within 5 days.

I think you must have psychic powers. I emailed the local council myself and they have no reference of the searches we are apparently waiting for! Have spoken to solicitor who told me this couldn’t be true so I forwarded her the email.... watch this space! 

Thanks for advice!