Searches? Exchange? Not sure what is going on.

Km2020

I have posted on here a few times the last week or so 

we have been told numerous things on a number of occasions

my solicitor informed us last week that all searches had come back, contracts would be signed this week, and we would move before Christmas

I was then informed by the estate agents (who were selling with ) that they are still waiting for searches to come back. Drainage searches is apparently not due till 18th December and Local Authority Search not till the 29th January. Obviously this had made us very disappointed as were had started to pack the house up and now we clearly wont be moving. I'm aware there is a back log but I'm unsure why its taking so long and why were being lied to??

Any advice please??

Thank you 

AdrianC

Chinese Whispers is more likely.

You are in a chain, right?
Your solicitor is referring to the searches on the property you're buying.
Your EA is involved in your sale - and may be referring to your buyer's searches on the property you're selling.

If there's no chain, and this is just on your purchase, then believe your solicitor - they're actually managing the searches, the EA isn't.

davidmcn

kearamorris2020 said:

Any advice please??

Please keep to the one thread rather than keep on starting new ones - makes it easier for everybody else to follow what's happening and stops people asking the same questions.

youth_leader

I'd phone the solicitor again - he/she is the one who should be giving you the exchange/completion dates?

Km2020

AdrianC said:

Chinese Whispers is more likely.

You are in a chain, right?
Your solicitor is referring to the searches on the property you're buying.
Your EA is involved in your sale - and may be referring to your buyer's searches on the property you're selling.

If there's no chain, and this is just on your purchase, then believe your solicitor - they're actually managing the searches, the EA isn't.

there is a chain (we are bottom of the chain our buyers are first time buyers) 
all the searches above the chain have been complete, the searches on the house that we are selling are still waiting to come back. Therefore we are holding up the whole chain (our buyers are first time buyers) our solicitor is saying one thing to us (that its all done and we will exchange this month ) , and their solicitor who is doing the searches is telling a different thing to the estate agents who we are selling with. The estate agents contacted me yesterday to tell me the searches hadn't come back. My solicitor apparently wasn't aware of this, even though he told us completely different last week

Km2020

youth_leader said:

I'd phone the solicitor again - he/she is the one who should be giving you the exchange/completion dates?

youth_leader said:

I'd phone the solicitor again - he/she is the one who should be giving you the exchange/completion dates?

i assumed my solicitor would be in contact with the sellers solicitor, but what he has told us and what the EA have told us . Both my solicitor and the EA are claiming they've been told different things from the sellers solicitor 

Thrugelmir

Solicitor's don't discuss their respective clients business.  Your solicitor will work towards your target date. They have no control over events elsewhere in the chain. Exchange and completion will only take place when the last party in the chain is ready to do so.  

AdrianC

kearamorris2020 said:

AdrianC said:

Chinese Whispers is more likely.

You are in a chain, right?
Your solicitor is referring to the searches on the property you're buying.
Your EA is involved in your sale - and may be referring to your buyer's searches on the property you're selling.

If there's no chain, and this is just on your purchase, then believe your solicitor - they're actually managing the searches, the EA isn't.

there is a chain (we are bottom of the chain our buyers are first time buyers)

So your buyers are bottom of the chain, not you.

A -> buys from -> B -> buys from -> C -> D -> E
You are B, not A.

all the searches above the chain have been complete, the searches on the house that we are selling are still waiting to come back. Therefore we are holding up the whole chain (our buyers are first time buyers) our solicitor is saying one thing to us (that its all done and we will exchange this month ) , and their solicitor who is doing the searches is telling a different thing to the estate agents who we are selling with. The estate agents contacted me yesterday to tell me the searches hadn't come back. My solicitor apparently wasn't aware of this, even though he told us completely different last week

Your solicitor does not do the searches on your sale - the buyer's solicitor does.
Your solicitor doesn't see the results of them. He is not involved in them, unless the buyer's solicitor come to him with queries arising from them.

Your solicitor does do the searches on your purchase.

Km2020

AdrianC said:

kearamorris2020 said:

AdrianC said:

Chinese Whispers is more likely.

You are in a chain, right?
Your solicitor is referring to the searches on the property you're buying.
Your EA is involved in your sale - and may be referring to your buyer's searches on the property you're selling.

If there's no chain, and this is just on your purchase, then believe your solicitor - they're actually managing the searches, the EA isn't.

there is a chain (we are bottom of the chain our buyers are first time buyers)

So your buyers are bottom of the chain, not you.

A -> buys from -> B -> buys from -> C -> D -> E
You are B, not A.

all the searches above the chain have been complete, the searches on the house that we are selling are still waiting to come back. Therefore we are holding up the whole chain (our buyers are first time buyers) our solicitor is saying one thing to us (that its all done and we will exchange this month ) , and their solicitor who is doing the searches is telling a different thing to the estate agents who we are selling with. The estate agents contacted me yesterday to tell me the searches hadn't come back. My solicitor apparently wasn't aware of this, even though he told us completely different last week

Your solicitor does not do the searches on your sale - the buyer's solicitor does.
Your solicitor doesn't see the results of them. He is not involved in them, unless the buyer's solicitor come to him with queries arising from them.

Your solicitor does do the searches on your purchase.

yes I understand that my solicitor does not do the searches. But I was informed by him that he has d spoken to the buyers solicitor and he told us the buyers solicitor told us they were all complete and fine when this is not the case. So my point is he has lied to us. he also told us the buyers were signing their contract this week which is also a lie. 

Tiglet2

kearamorris2020 said:

AdrianC said:

kearamorris2020 said:

AdrianC said:

Chinese Whispers is more likely.

You are in a chain, right?
Your solicitor is referring to the searches on the property you're buying.
Your EA is involved in your sale - and may be referring to your buyer's searches on the property you're selling.

If there's no chain, and this is just on your purchase, then believe your solicitor - they're actually managing the searches, the EA isn't.

there is a chain (we are bottom of the chain our buyers are first time buyers)

So your buyers are bottom of the chain, not you.

A -> buys from -> B -> buys from -> C -> D -> E
You are B, not A.

all the searches above the chain have been complete, the searches on the house that we are selling are still waiting to come back. Therefore we are holding up the whole chain (our buyers are first time buyers) our solicitor is saying one thing to us (that its all done and we will exchange this month ) , and their solicitor who is doing the searches is telling a different thing to the estate agents who we are selling with. The estate agents contacted me yesterday to tell me the searches hadn't come back. My solicitor apparently wasn't aware of this, even though he told us completely different last week

Your solicitor does not do the searches on your sale - the buyer's solicitor does.
Your solicitor doesn't see the results of them. He is not involved in them, unless the buyer's solicitor come to him with queries arising from them.

Your solicitor does do the searches on your purchase.

yes I understand that my solicitor does not do the searches. But I was informed by him that he has d spoken to the buyers solicitor and he told us the buyers solicitor told us they were all complete and fine when this is not the case. So my point is he has lied to us. he also told us the buyers were signing their contract this week which is also a lie. 

There has been some miscommunication in what the buyer's solicitor has told both your solicitor and the EA.  It may be that your solicitor thought the buyer's solicitor had the searches when, in fact, they had ordered them but not received the completed searches back.  It's not lying, it's not knowing the true facts and, of course, it's not your solicitors job to regularly check when the buyer's solicitor does his job.

Some councils are taking a long time to return the local search, see the link for an example: http://search-acumen.co.uk/covid-19-coronavirus

Thrugelmir

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