Slow solicitor or is this normal?

mortgage_noob

teachfast said:

Conveyancers and conveyancing solicitors will do their jobs just fine. There's no need to send them reminders every six months.

  

RachP87

@TBG01 you seem very angry and I’m not really sure why. Are you a solicitor?

the initial 3 weeks was in reference to the start of the process, in March, responding to the OP regarding timelines and if it’s normal to not hear. And tbh if you want exact dates I didn’t hear from 26th March until 29th April so 1 day short of 5 weeks - my mention of 3 weeks was incorrect. But the 5 weeks in my post was in reference to the OP stating 5 weeks. 

I haven’t heard from my solicitors since 19th May so 4 weeks tomorrow, I’ll pop back on next week to let you know if they make it 5 weeks so you can advise  

Pok3mon

We had offer accepted 19th May and Sold ours on 7th May. All we have done or seen is accepting fees contract, proof of funds ect and a cheque for £200 for searches.
All this was hand delivered the next day.
This was in the first week after the 19th, we was then sent a copy of land registry to confirm our house.
That's it!

We have had no other information. I would not mind but we are all cash buyers no chain as such one buying our house us buying next house empty that's it. 

We are all using the same firm to speed things up!

I would love some information!

[Deleted User]

There are such big differences with all of these aren't there! Our chain was 'complete' in mid May (but main bits of paperwork around this a few days later).
Chain of 3 properties/ 4 purchasers|sellers (1 cash and 2 mortgage, last one in chain breaking chain till they find somewhere). Somehow in that time we have got all draft contracts out, all first enquiries done bar one, all searches in chain back except for one which will hold things up, 2 mortgage offers in and all surveys done in under 4 weeks. This is pretty exceptional so I'm not really sure what has happened to make it all be very swift. 
Having said that, it can suddenly get very held up by any one party or issue so just as ours could suddenly slow down, yours could suddenly speed up. We still don't know what timescale the top of the chain is happy with in terms of completion so that could change things a lot.
I have to say these are the best solicitors I've ever used. I've decided the difference is that there's a direct secretary to the solicitor. The solicitor does all the big bits I guess and we don't have to wait on him. The secretary does all the communication, minor paperwork, chasing, confirming etc and it works absolutely brilliantly. 

Thrugelmir

onylon said:

mortgage_noob said:

Thrugelmir said:

mortgage_noob said:

I'm quite happy not to micromanage if stuff was getting done or we were getting any sort of communication Unfortunately that doesn't appear to be the case, but you seem to want to excuse total inaction and lack of communication on our solicitors side. 

Just offering a different perspective. After having spent many years in client facing environments. Always made me laugh under my breath when people told me how to do my job. Over time you grow a thick skin to the abuse. 

I don't think a gentle prod to ask if she needs anything else from us/or the vendors solicitor to progress things constitutes abuse, but ok.  

Conveyors on this board are quite prickly and like to say that they aren't paid enough to communicate with clients. 

Do you think that conveyancers would spend their time on here and get drawn into pointless discussions?  When faced with a wall of negative bias.