Gifting money towards a house purchase-and solicitor requesting bank statements from donor?

anotherquestion

Hi there folks, 
Just wondering if gifting money to a relative towards cost of buying a house and their solicitor requesting bank statement of person gifting the money (which I understand is a normal enough practice that they do) would it be very unwise to include the whole account number in those statements or blank part of it out, for security reasons?
Thanks for any advice.

[Deleted User]

Whichever makes you more comfortable. The worst the recipient can do with the account number is set up a direct debit.

The solicitor is very unlikely to try to get his Netflix paid from your account. 

ACG

If you blank out part/all of the sort code or account number, I think the solicitor will tell you to get them again without it being blanked out. 

user1977

Apart from anything else, they might need the account number to demonstrate the "paper trail" between different statements or transfers to/from that account.

MaryNB

My parents (gifted me money towards my deposit) and I handed my solicitor plenty of financial docs without anything blacked out. If the solicitors were going to do anything nefarious they already had pretty much all of my personal info. 

amnblog

Don’t redact the statements. As stated above the Solicitor will just reject them.
If the donor does not want you to seem them, they can supply them direct to the Solicitor.

Mickey666

anotherquestion said:

Hi there folks, 
Just wondering if gifting money to a relative towards cost of buying a house and their solicitor requesting bank statement of person gifting the money (which I understand is a normal enough practice that they do) would it be very unwise to include the whole account number in those statements or blank part of it out, for security reasons?
Thanks for any advice.

Firstly, why do you think that letting your account number be known is a security risk when every cheque book clearly states the account number and pretty much every commercial invoice these days includes the company bank account details so they can be paid by bank transfer?

Secondly, if a solicitor requests a bank statement for a purpose that you understand is "a normal enough practice" then surely if the account number is not FULLY visible then how on earth could the solicitor be certain that the submitted statement is from the correct account?  The whole exercise would be worthless!

user1977

Never really understood the people who don't trust their (or their relative's) solicitor, but for some reason trust the many thousands of people working for their multinational bank!