Waiting for probate

badger09

Rae626 said:

GDB2222 said:

Can’t they opt to pay IHT on the property in instalments?

I don’t think IHT is an issue with this case, the house I’m purchasing is no where near the threshold. 

There may be substantial assets that you don’t know about. SDLT_Geek said:

getmore4less said:

Rae626 said:

I wonder if anyone can shed any light on this.. 
I’m a first time buyer and had an offer on a house accepted back to October 2020, all was going smoothly (valuation done, mortgage accepted after 4 weeks, searches done), then unfortunately one of the vendors sadly passed away so a probate application needed to be made. I love the house so I was and still am happy to wait. I was told there are delays in applications due to COVID, however, I’m not sure how long the delays are. 

I see everywhere it can take years, but from what I’ve been told the vendor had plans in place in case this happened so paperwork should be straight forward. 

Has anyone had any recent dealings with probate, and if so, how long was the process from application to you getting your keys? Starting to get anxious that it’ll never happen... 

Any advice (or reassurance) is welcome! 

As already said on this thread

if they were joint owners probate is not required. 

Perhaps OP is not reading the relevant posts?  No reaction has been given to them.

Agreed 

OP
The Grant of Probate could take a couple of weeks, or much, much longer.
Unless you are making the application, you simply don’t know. 

Good luck

purplebutterfly

13 months since we applied for probate on my grandad's house (so not very recent and not post-covid)  and it only took 4 weeks to come through BUT we did the application ourselves and not via a solicitor.   
Other family friends have since experienced probate taking three times as long because the solicitor took 6 weeks just to send the forms off.   So factor that in to your estimate as well.

martindow

Do you still have to go to an office to swear or affirm that the contents of the form are accurate?  I wonderd whether Covid has caused a change in the process.  Waiting for an appointment added several weeks when I was an executor a few years ago.