Good morning, Robin

Slips36

davidmcn said:

Your solicitor's difficulty may be that even if they prioritise your file, the timing of exchange /completion isn't something they're unilaterally in control of. 

My house buyer is ftb and the house purchase is empty so fairly small chain. The whole thing has dragged on for over 4 months. The sale side has been ready for exchange for weeks and my buyer is getting impatient and threatening to pull out. It took long time over 4 months  to find buyer for my house and I will be gutted if buyer pulls out. 

youth_leader

Slips36 I still don't understand your situation.  I don't understand why you can't download the garage title/lease and forward to your solictor.   Is your seller prepared to wait for the money for the garage? 

Slips36

The house and the garage is on the same contract but the house has it’s own title deed and the garage has a leasehold title deed. One of the enquires was on the leasehold deed as the solicitor only provided the title plan and not registered title. The sellers solicitor was unable to immediately download the title deed so had to have it posted from HMLR. There is severe delay in the postal service and possibly take weeks to get to the sellers office. To further complicates he is working from home and rarely goes to his office.

Seashell517

Slips36 said:

The house and the garage is on the same contract but the house has it’s own title deed and the garage has a leasehold title deed. One of the enquires was on the leasehold deed as the solicitor only provided the title plan and not registered title. The sellers solicitor was unable to immediately download the title deed so had to have it posted from HMLR. There is severe delay in the postal service and possibly take weeks to get to the sellers office. To further complicates he is working from home and rarely goes to his office.

So how is paying your solicitor more money going to speed up the post?

Tiglet2

youth_leader said:

Slips36 I still don't understand your situation.  I don't understand why you can't download the garage title/lease and forward to your solictor.   Is your seller prepared to wait for the money for the garage? 

Because the deed is not available as a downloadable copy.  The seller's solicitor applied to obtain the deed and was advised by HMLR that they would have to send a hard copy in the post.   This is not unusual actually.  Happens on quite a few transactions.

Slips36

Seashell517 said:

Slips36 said:

The house and the garage is on the same contract but the house has it’s own title deed and the garage has a leasehold title deed. One of the enquires was on the leasehold deed as the solicitor only provided the title plan and not registered title. The sellers solicitor was unable to immediately download the title deed so had to have it posted from HMLR. There is severe delay in the postal service and possibly take weeks to get to the sellers office. To further complicates he is working from home and rarely goes to his office.

So how is paying your solicitor more money going to speed up the post?

I’m hoping my solicitor will see the delay in waiting for the leasehold deed to be delivered.
so he will exchange without the deed has he already has title plans. It’s a case of exchanging soon or the whole chain collapsing. My quote is no completion no legal fees so he will lose out on £1200. 

greatcrested

As explained already, it's your choice!

As there is no mortgage lender involved in purchasing the garage, you are the solicitor's sole client, and therefore you can instruct him to do whatever you want.

He can, and should, certainly advise you not to Exchange without sight of the Title (who knows - the seller may not own it!).

But ultimatey it is your risk, so your decision. He'll want any such instruction clearly in writing to protect himself from any adverse consequence.

I suppose he might still refuse on the grounds that it would be professionally  irresponsible.

And then, of course, there is the outstanding issue of the unanswered Enquires which you've provided no details of.

Grumpy_chap

I assume this thread is somehow linked to this one:
https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/6234701/buyer-going-abroad-for-1-month/p1
If so, the vendor going away need not have any impact on eventual time-scale and your Solicitor will not be able to prioritise your case over others irrespective of how much money you offer - certainly £1k is only loose-change to a Solicitor.

And this:
https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/6236150/dream-home#latest
and this:
https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/6236042/no-completion-no-fee#latest
and this:
https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/6238743/useless-legal-conveyancer-who#latest
and this:
https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/6238520/sellers-solicitor-having-problems-regarding-enquires#latest

The best advice I can give, really, is try to relax and let the process take it's due course.

Robinhoody

Even having a guarantor is no guarantee as they can get breathing space  

Tiglet2

Robinhoody said:

Even having a guarantor is no guarantee as they can get breathing space  

I think you're on the wrong thread