Buyer sending enquiries via estate agent?

trance_abbey

Lbuk said:

They were the estate agents default conveyancer. Premier Property Lawyers and the system they use is eWay.

hehe I'm half wondering if you're my vendor ...

I'd say your sellers motives are the same as mine; I want to get the sale sorted as speedily as possible and I like to know stuff so I can make plans. This means I'll ask whoever I can think of that'll have the answer, often my solicitor isn't my first port of call!

trance_abbey

whoops... your buyer's motives!

btcp

trance_abbey said:

I'd say your sellers motives are the same as mine; I want to get the sale sorted as speedily as possible and I like to know stuff so I can make plans. This means I'll ask whoever I can think of that'll have the answer, often my solicitor isn't my first port of call!

One problem with going through EA at this stage is that these answers are not legally binding, and it is in your interest to have your solicitor including all in the contract. If I am wrong and they are legally binding, but solicitor is unaware and don’t include them in the contract, then some back and forth or dissatisfaction guaranteed at a later stage. Again, depending on the questions you are asking. To speed up my buying process I decided not to ask too much, I saw the house twice and read the forms. We shall see if my approach works. 

HungryTruck

MaiTai said:

Premier Property Lawyers are by far and away the worst of the conveyancing sheds.
Over the years I’ve encountered innumerable issues with them causing unnecessary delays,losing paperwork and generally being very poor at what they are paid to do.
They may have the fancy technology but the majority of the staff are borderline incompetent.They do have a few good people but they are very much the exception rather than the rule.Problem is they sell it cheap,pile it high and struggle with anything that isn’t straightforward.

Absolutely hate dealing with any transaction involving them as you instinctively know from the outset that the whole process is highly likely to be fraught with difficulties.

This. It makes me nervous that the OP is hoping to meet the stamp duty deadline. We put our offer in at the start of Feb and are only just making it because PPL took 2 months to send our solicitor responses to enquiries. This will be why the EA has probably sent them by email too!