Waiting on probate to be granted

Cookie211

gun_raider said:

yes, from what i know there’s one beneficiary (the daughter). if i were to take a guess the sellers solicitors keep making mistakes.

my friend who had a more complicated case after his grandad passed away (multiple people involved and two properties) got the grant of probate to come through 4 weeks after applying a couple of months ago.

I wonder if the solicitor have Actually submitted application for probate to be granted, the daughters probate solicitor only sent it off last week and took 6 weeks to prepare it plus couldn’t locate the will but finally found it so that delayed it by a week or so, hoping it won’t take long, sole beneficiary and will don’t look overly complicated of what I have been told, hope u hear soon 

BooJewels

I don't think there's much pattern to how long probate takes.  I got an email this morning that ours has been granted - simple case, no IHT etc. and only need it to sell the property - they received the paper application on 12th April, so a day over 10 weeks.

Turtle

gun_raider said:

i’m in the same spot as you.

the sellers applied for the probate on the 28th of April. they contacted the probate people after 4 weeks and they told them they don’t have a completion timeline for them as they’re still processing the January backlog!

i’m 6 months into the purchase of this house and it’s been a nightmare. the sellers solicitors are absolutely useless. 

This is like us. We had an offer accepted on a property 13 November. On 17 November the estate agent told us probate had been applied for - this is the first we'd heard that it was a probate property. We're still waiting for it to be granted and were now 7.5 months down the line.  The executor (who is a professional executor) is absolutely useless, and their solicitor doesn't seem much better. Our solicitors have been great, but this situation is extremely frustrating and stressful.

BooJewels

I'm not sure why people market properties without probate - I have an estate property to sell, as mentioned above - and as we're doing it as a development project, there's a good chance we'll sell to a developer - maybe/hopefully a cash buyer (already had approaches and low offers) who wants a speedy resolution.  So we decided not to market it until we got probate. 

Now we know there will be no probate hold up - or anything to put off - a potential sale.  An Estate Agent should certainly publicise that it's subject to probate.

Cookie211

Hi we had some news today that the probate solicitor had something scanned onto his file today but he will have it forwarded to his file in the office by tomorrow or Thursday, the EA seems to think that it’s confirmation that probate registry have received everything, fingers crossed it won’t be to long 

Cookie211

Just had confirmation that the courts have now received all paperwork, can I ask is the courts the same as probate registry, sorry I haven’t got a clue with all this 

p00hsticks

Cookie211 said:

Just had confirmation that the courts have now received all paperwork, can I ask is the courts the same as probate registry, sorry I haven’t got a clue with all this 

The Probate Registry is part of the HM Courts & Tribunals Service, so I presume that's what they mean.

p00hsticks

BooJewels said:

I'm not sure why people market properties without probate - I have an estate property to sell, as mentioned above - and as we're doing it as a development project, there's a good chance we'll sell to a developer - maybe/hopefully a cash buyer (already had approaches and low offers) who wants a speedy resolution.  So we decided not to market it until we got probate. 

I suspect it's done when beneficiaries and executors are one and the same and they're impatient for the money. With the probate service currently quoting 6-8 weeks turnaround, if you put the property on the market at the same time as you put in the probate application, chances are that probate will be granted by the time any buyer is ready to exchange and you've got your money a couple of months quicker than if you'd waited to go to market until the grant was in your hand.

Personally, having been on the other side of the fence and finding it a drag, I'm like you and have waited to get probate before marketing, but I know of others who did it earlier because they were getting pestered by co-executors / beneficiaries anxious for their inheritance.

gun_raider

This is like us. We had an offer accepted on a property 13 November. On 17 November the estate agent told us probate had been applied for - this is the first we'd heard that it was a probate property. We're still waiting for it to be granted and were now 7.5 months down the line.  The executor (who is a professional executor) is absolutely useless, and their solicitor doesn't seem much better. Our solicitors have been great, but this situation is extremely frustrating and stressful.

sorry you're going through this.

it's my first time buying a property and i'm shocked at how bad solicitors are at their jobs.

Cookie211

p00hsticks said:

Cookie211 said:

Just had confirmation that the courts have now received all paperwork, can I ask is the courts the same as probate registry, sorry I haven’t got a clue with all this 

The Probate Registry is part of the HM Courts & Tribunals Service, so I presume that's what they mean.

Can I ask, if they have now received all paperwork and had a confirmation text to say they have it, is it just waiting to be reviewed then they will be given a grant of probate thanks