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Conveyancers
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Yes is the quick answer. We are selling at the moment and our buyers are using the same conveyance firm but a different solicitor to us. It does make things easier as e mails and telephone calls are reduced as they can pop into each other office for a quick chatShrewsfanIC said:For speed, can the buyer and the seller use the same conveyancing firm, if the lead conveyancer is different?0 -
Emails and telephone calls? You struck lucky there mate. Our Solicitor sent a FAX over a week ago to the Seller's Solicitors and he believes it is reasonable to wait 10 working days before chasing for a reply....PaulJ13 said:
Yes is the quick answer. We are selling at the moment and our buyers are using the same conveyance firm but a different solicitor to us. It does make things easier as e mails and telephone calls are reduced as they can pop into each other office for a quick chatShrewsfanIC said:For speed, can the buyer and the seller use the same conveyancing firm, if the lead conveyancer is different?0 -
Presumably the other solicitor also has to wait for a response from someone else.Mildreds_Earrings said:
Emails and telephone calls? You struck lucky there mate. Our Solicitor sent a FAX over a week ago to the Seller's Solicitors and he believes it is reasonable to wait 10 working days before chasing for a reply....PaulJ13 said:
Yes is the quick answer. We are selling at the moment and our buyers are using the same conveyance firm but a different solicitor to us. It does make things easier as e mails and telephone calls are reduced as they can pop into each other office for a quick chatShrewsfanIC said:For speed, can the buyer and the seller use the same conveyancing firm, if the lead conveyancer is different?0 -
All sounds very cosy. But wouldn't you prefer to have someone committed to representing your interests rather than worrying about upsetting their colleague?PaulJ13 said:
Yes is the quick answer. We are selling at the moment and our buyers are using the same conveyance firm but a different solicitor to us. It does make things easier as e mails and telephone calls are reduced as they can pop into each other office for a quick chatShrewsfanIC said:For speed, can the buyer and the seller use the same conveyancing firm, if the lead conveyancer is different?0 -
Do you want speed, or do you want sound advice? All you can ask of a conveyancer, IMO, is responsiveness. Speed is out of their control, and in some cases is in your control - e.g., do you want to accept a shortcut / "take a view," or do you want a proper solution?teachfast said:You don't cannot put speed and conveyancers in the same sentence meaningfully.
I had one purchase, seemingly complicated, move in record time. Another one, seemingly easy, took forever and resulted in everyone (vendor, vendor's solicitor, estate agent) screaming at me. In both cases, I used the same solicitor. In both cases, I feel like I got good guidance. The guidance in the second case was not to accept the shortcut, but to insist on the full, "by the book" solution, which took eight weeks but was better when I went to sell.
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