TR1 transfer deed.

Slips36

I am having problem with my solicitor who don’t want to email the final report and the purchase contract and transfer form until they receive approval for the transfer deed. My solicitor emailed the draft transfer deed for approval on Friday. I emailed the EA to check if sellers solicitor has emailed the approval for transfer deed. The EA emailed back and said they not received any email from my solicitor.
I emailed my solicitor but he was off work until today so I rang his assistant and she said email was sent out last Friday but she will resent it again. This morning I emailed my solicitor regarding the final report and the contract but his assistant emailed back and said they still waiting for sellers solicitor approval for the draft transfer deed. No report will be emailed until they get the approval.
is this normal process?

Tiglet2

Yes, normal.  It is not an instant process to approve the Transfer and then email you the report and legal documents for signing.  You must allow some time for the solicitor to review the Transfer document which they have to confirm they are happy with it (i.e. approval), or whether they require further amendment.  Then your solicitor has to gather all the documents and information they need to send to you, write their report, together with the approved contract, transfer and mortgage deed (if obtaining a mortgage).  This all takes time to collate the information and then get it scanned to you.  I think you need to be a little patient.

You have various threads on your issues with the Transfer document.  It might have been better to have put all your questions on one thread.
https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/6242255/tr1-transfer-form#latest

greatcrested

As tiglet says, you need to chill.

Let the solicitor do his job, collate and check everything, and then when ready, send it to you.

Slips36

greatcrested said:

As tiglet says, you need to chill.

Let the solicitor do his job, collate and check everything, and then when ready, send it to you.

Thanks, but it seems to just drag on and on. My buyer wanted to complete on the 10th February and is getting frustrating with the delays has the house sale contract was sent out 5 weeks back. I’m worried he might pull out of the purchase.

Tiglet2

Slips36 said:

greatcrested said:

As tiglet says, you need to chill.

Let the solicitor do his job, collate and check everything, and then when ready, send it to you.

Thanks, but it seems to just drag on and on. My buyer wanted to complete on the 10th February and is getting frustrating with the delays has the house sale contract was sent out 5 weeks back. I’m worried he might pull out of the purchase.

Your buyer also needs to chill.  They are unlikely to pull out when they have spent money on searches and surveys and it is getting close to exchange and completion.  Where would they buy somewhere else any quicker?  Sending out a contract for signature and return does not mean exchange is imminent.  It's just one task ticked off the list and it will sit on the file until all the other tasks are ticked off.  99% per cent of buyers and sellers will threaten to pull out at some point during a transaction - very few actually do.

Slips36

Tiglet2 said:

Slips36 said:

greatcrested said:

As tiglet says, you need to chill.

Let the solicitor do his job, collate and check everything, and then when ready, send it to you.

Thanks, but it seems to just drag on and on. My buyer wanted to complete on the 10th February and is getting frustrating with the delays has the house sale contract was sent out 5 weeks back. I’m worried he might pull out of the purchase.

Your buyer also needs to chill.  They are unlikely to pull out when they have spent money on searches and surveys and it is getting close to exchange and completion.  Where would they buy somewhere else any quicker?  Sending out a contract for signature and return does not mean exchange is imminent.  It's just one task ticked off the list and it will sit on the file until all the other tasks are ticked off.  99% per cent of buyers and sellers will threaten to pull out at some point during a transaction - very few actually do.

Thanks, another problem was the TR1 form on my sale, the buyers solicitor used shortened names. My solicitor assistant didn’t check and emailed the tr1 to me and I pointed it out and she sent it back for amendment. The amended tr1 had the surname error and my solicitor assistant again failed to check until I pointed it out, the tr1 was sent back for amendment and was returned back today and where you sign the names were in short form so sent back again for further amendment. 
It’s a bloody circus, the quality of people doing this work is very atrocious. 

greatcrested

Did you raise this recently on a different thread? Sounds familiar.....

Tiglet2

greatcrested said:

Did you raise this recently on a different thread? Sounds familiar.....

Yes, I linked to it above.

Slips36

There seems to be lack of communication or grudge between the solicitors. My solicitor wasted several weeks enquiring about historical conveyance of 1913. The sellers solicitors had to order copy from the land registry. There was no problem with the conveyance and wasted 3 weeks. Simple logic will point to house sold numerous times and surely the solicitors involved will have questioned the historical conveyance.
my initial gut feeling was to get shot of them but I already paid for the searches and their initial deposit.
This solicitor and his assistant has been complete nightmare.

Seashell517

Slips36 said:

There seems to be lack of communication or grudge between the solicitors. My solicitor wasted several weeks enquiring about historical conveyance of 1913. The sellers solicitors had to order copy from the land registry. There was no problem with the conveyance and wasted 3 weeks. Simple logic will point to house sold numerous times and surely the solicitors involved will have questioned the historical conveyance.
my initial gut feeling was to get shot of them but I already paid for the searches and their initial deposit.
This solicitor and his assistant has been complete nightmare.

It turned out to be fine, so you're calling it a waste of time. If they had found a problem, would you be saying the same? Do you know that the conveyancers on the previous transactions were thorough? If something was found to be wrong later, would you accept 'well it was sold plenty of times before so I didn't check' from your conveyancer?

Slips36

Seashell517 said:

Slips36 said:

There seems to be lack of communication or grudge between the solicitors. My solicitor wasted several weeks enquiring about historical conveyance of 1913. The sellers solicitors had to order copy from the land registry. There was no problem with the conveyance and wasted 3 weeks. Simple logic will point to house sold numerous times and surely the solicitors involved will have questioned the historical conveyance.
my initial gut feeling was to get shot of them but I already paid for the searches and their initial deposit.
This solicitor and his assistant has been complete nightmare.

It turned out to be fine, so you're calling it a waste of time. If they had found a problem, would you be saying the same? Do you know that the conveyancers on the previous transactions were thorough? If something was found to be wrong later, would you accept 'well it was sold plenty of times before so I didn't check' from your conveyancer?

Well it’s 110 year old house and probably gone through several conveyance. I’m fairly sure at least one of the conveyancer would have found the non existent problem. The conveyancer is fairly inexperienced and his assistant is awful making several errors on the sale side, TR1 form I had to point out to her the errors on it, after more than 4 months still not corrected.