Purplebricks My home move conveyancing experience?

ObserverOfLife

Our sellers are using purple bricks recommended solicitors and they are awful. Always dragging their heels, mistakes on enquiries response, agreeing to do an exchange on a date then deciding they wanted to do a last minute file check 30, which took 2 days. 

Even our sellers apologised for their choice in appointing the solicitors. 

Always worth paying a little extra for a good quality conveyancer - not a conveyancing farm.

TripleH

Another for use local.

They may cost more money but are likely to be quicker.

They are likely to have a better understanding of the area so know who to ask in chasing up reports. Their purpose is to serve you not complete the sale.

If there are contentious issues an independent solicitor is less likely to gloss over them and raise queries.

Especially for new leaseholds where wording matters an independent conveyancer will challenge a phrase they interpret as detrimental whereas a connected party may be less willing to query the wording especially if their firm wrote it.

Mark_Michalowski

As everyone else has said - go for someone that's been recommended and is local enough for you to go and knock on their door when things start dragging (as they will).

I totally understand that a saving of hundreds of pounds at a time like this may seem worth the risk (speaking from personal experience here...) but when it all goes boobies-up, you'll find yourself willing to sell a kidney to get things back on track.

And once you think you've found the right ones, do a quick online review check: it might be that the people who've recommended them have been the 1-in-a-100 who did get good service.

Good luck!

Mxx