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Buying searches from previous failed buyers
badger09
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LA searches currently predicted to take 31 working days (in line with our experience re our sale) but that was without Christmas & New Year delays.
We're now buying a property in same LA, where vendor is being pressured by his vendor to complete quickly. We are proceeding with our sale, whatever happens.
In order to speed up our purchase, we are willing to buy searches & survey from previous buyers who pulled out 'because they found somewhere else'.
Local, Drainage, Environmental & Coal mining searches are dated end of August or end of September.
Are they sufficiently recent for our purposes?
We're now buying a property in same LA, where vendor is being pressured by his vendor to complete quickly. We are proceeding with our sale, whatever happens.
In order to speed up our purchase, we are willing to buy searches & survey from previous buyers who pulled out 'because they found somewhere else'.
Local, Drainage, Environmental & Coal mining searches are dated end of August or end of September.
Are they sufficiently recent for our purposes?
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your solicitor may not accept them, they can be changed before they get hold of them for example. But you can ask if they will accept"It is prudent when shopping for something important, not to limit yourself to Pound land/Estate Agents"
G_M/ Bowlhead99 RIP0 -
Who could change the searches?csgohan4 said:your solicitor may not accept them, they can be changed before they get hold of them for example. But you can ask if they will accept
They would have been requested by the previous buyers' solicitor, received by them, and be sent by them to our solicitor.
Are you suggesting the solicitor would change them??
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I think they are valid for 6 months, probably you need to make sure they are still valid when complete?1
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Thanks917700 said:I think they are valid for 6 months, probably you need to make sure they are still valid when complete?
Solicitor's secretary sent the email this morning & I asked for confirmation they were valid. No reply, so thought I'd try here.
I should have looked myself - house stress brain!
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Tried to do that myself and was informed that it was six months. The previous solicitor was asking £420 and my solicitor sent off for her own and at a cost of £140. Crazy world!0
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I found these linksAskAsk said:
i remember the estate agent says it is 3 months.917700 said:I think they are valid for 6 months, probably you need to make sure they are still valid when complete?
https://www.graysons.co.uk/advice/conveyancing-searches-explained/
https://freeconveyancingadvice.co.uk/Q&A/searches/search-validity
so 6 months looks correct0
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