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Ready to agree a completion date
uklaura
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We are at the stage where we are ready to agree the completion and exchange date with the other solicitors. Our solicitor has been 'chasing' our buyers solicitors since Monday to provide a date but so far says he hasn't had a response. From what I can see on the online system he has only emailed them once and I can't see that any calls have been made to chase them up. Is there anyone else I can get involved to chase the buyers solicitors? would the estate agents for my sale do this too? Thanks
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Yes and no. We have been so lucky with fantastic solicitors as well as a brilliant sales progressor from the estate agents. Our sales progressor seemed to take the job of backing up the communication between parties informally of good dates for completion etc and narrowing things down to a couple of dates which was a great help. Ultimately the solicitors will need to confirm this but if you can tell the solicitor that 'x date has been informally agreed through correspondence the the sale progressor' then that helps massively.1
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Just go at it from both sides and see which works first:
1. ask your solicitor to ask your buyer's solicitor whether they are ready and whether x date works. If yes, great. If no, then might take longer for each step in the back and forth.
2. ask agent to ask buyer whether they are ready with all due dilligence and whether x date works. Then discuss until something is agreed, and you+buyer can inform your respective solicitors of the date and they take it from there.0 -
Yes we've been told that they have all their searches back and all enquiries are satisfied now. The person we are purchasing from wanted to agree on the 12th July but I cant see it being that quick. Our solicitor has emailed the buyers solicitors but hasn't had a response yet but no phone calls haven't been made yet so I suspect the email is just sat in the buyers solicitors inbox and the buyer isn't even aware yet.TBG01 said:
But is your buyer?uklaura said:We are at the stage where we are ready to agree the completion and exchange date with the other solicitors.0
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