Getting anxious

Tiglet2

mickyfred said:

cheeky-peach said:

Have you got the EAs involved? They may be able to find out what is outstanding and what the hold up is?

It's a shared ownership sale so the EA is the local council who don't really act like an estate agents. Once the initial marketing and offer procesigaa been completed,  They just send over the paperwork they're required to send and tell you to speak with your solicitor from then on. They won't get involved in the legal side of stuff.

When exactly was the new solicitor instructed?  This is important for us to help you, because the new solicitor will be starting from the beginning.  If enquiries haven't yet been raised, then you should be planning to move to your mum's. 

Enquiries are the longest part of conveyancing.  For example, your solicitor raises lots of enquiries with the seller's solicitor.  The seller's solicitor has to review them and will answer the ones they can.  The other enquiries may be sent to any third party, i.e. the seller, the Council, the Land Registry, Housing Association, the Management Company, Help to Buy Agent etc.  The seller's solicitor then relies on every single party to respond.  The seller will tend to respond quickly (after all, they want to sell), but the other third parties do not have this at the top of their "to do" list and may take weeks to respond.  Even when responses have been received by the seller's solicitor, they may not be full responses and may need further clarification/evidence etc.  Hence the forwards and backwards of many enquiries.

If a straight forward freehold purchase, then that is quicker than anything else.  You are buying shared ownership, which adds more work and additional enquiries.

teachfast

Yet another woeful tale of conveyancing solicitor incompetence, disdain and poor communication. 

The whole lot of them ought to hang their heads in shame. But they won't. 

arrows123

This is what I'm trying to avoid with my purchase. The place I rent has been sold and I was given the six months notice in April so have to be out end of October but ideally I want it to be done by the end of Sept because of stamp duty. In theory plenty of time for the Oct deadline, my plan should things take longer, is to get a quote from a removals company who also offer storage as an option - I'm then hoping that they won't necessarily need to know whether to put stuff into storage or actual move it until pretty close to the time leaving my options open - can you do the same? 

tooldle

mickyfred said:

tooldle said:

Are there enquiries ongoing? 

This is the eternal question as every conversation with the Solicitor revolves around these "enquiries" my Solicitor hasn't even started raising them yet. I asked long that takes and how many he is intending to raise? I never get a straight answer though it's all cryptic answers like "the enquiries raised are in relation to the info I've got in the searches, documents etc" and as for timescale all I get is "that all depends on how long it takes to get replies" he never directly answers the question and as such I end the conversation none the wiser than I was at the start on the phonecall.

This is the correct answer. The solicitor cannot put a timescale on it as the replies are not within his control.

Slithery

arrows123 said:

The place I rent has been sold and I was given the six months notice in April so have to be out end of October 

No, you don't.
You are under absolutely no obligation to leave when the notice expires, even if there's a family with screaming kids and removal vans waiting outside all that happens is you stay where you are and they become your new landlord.
Landlords can't legally end a tenancy. The only two parties that can are you (the tenant) or the courts, and seeing as how the courts currently have a 2 year backlog for evictions then you can quite happily stay in the property until at least 2023 before you are evicted.
If the LL needs you out to sell the property then I suggest asking for a good few £k in compensation to cover your expenses in return for vacating earlier than you legally have to.
I suggest reading...
Ending/renewing an AST

deannagone

If the OP has officially given notice, this may not be true.  Nothing making the OP leave but LL could charge double rent for staying beyond the given notice.  I would suggest talking to the LL, explaining the situation, saying you will be out by October but need to stay a bit longer than originally thought (end of August).  This would solve a lot of problems.