So.... my offer to buy a house is accepted but the seller's solicitor is not responsive.

p00hsticks

Misthios said:

Wail said:

I am in the process at the moment. Is your seller at the top of the chain or are they still needing to find somewhere?

My conveyancer took time to get going on the sale until I had a purchase lined up. 

  So in my case I am not sure who's delaying the process. Is it the seller or his solicitor? 

No-one's really delaying the process, they're just not necessarily dropping everything else they have going on to immediately react to progress this particular sale. It'll take as long as it takes.

We all know that buying a proeprty is an anxious time, especially for first time buyers, but you asked for advice and I think the advice that people are giving you is to try to relax and take a chill pill.....

Misthios

Ksw3 said:

It took 6 weeks for us to get draft contracts. If you have the memorandum of sale I think it states if the sellers have appointed a solicitor. 

Our solicitor wouldn't commit but a large number of services will have at least a 10 working day turnaround for looking at cases. Our solicitor will look at the case then dictate for a secretary to type up. It's a bit archaic, takes forever but there we are. 

Oh yes, I know who's the seller's solicitor, it's on the memorandum of sales indeed but it's all about the agreement and the commitment. The seller had an expectation from me for a quick sale and no hassle. So I found and paid for services and a solicitor who priorities my case straight away. Now if the seller for any reasons is stalling or instructed the seller to start preparing the draft contract in 2000never, I won't hang around long. 

Misthios

p00hsticks said:

Misthios said:

Wail said:

I am in the process at the moment. Is your seller at the top of the chain or are they still needing to find somewhere?

My conveyancer took time to get going on the sale until I had a purchase lined up. 

  So in my case I am not sure who's delaying the process. Is it the seller or his solicitor? 

No-one's really delaying the process, they're just not necessarily dropping everything else they have going on to immediately react to progress this particular sale. It'll take as long as it takes.

We all know that buying a proeprty is an anxious time, especially for first time buyers, but you asked for advice and I think the advice that people are giving you is to try to relax and take a chill pill.....

I hope you are right, that nobody is delaying the process but time will tell. Sure I ll follow the advice  

Waunakee

Please bear in mind it has only been 7 or so working days since your offer was accepted.

2 of which have been Fridays and traditionally the busiest day for completions often pushing other work on to the back burner.

It can take time for vendors to receive,complete and return some quite complex paperwork which will need to be checked over.

Vacant and freehold should (in theory) make for a straightforward sale but that may not necessarily be the case as searches and enquiries can throw up all sorts of unforeseen curveballs.

Your estate agent is absolutely correct in that these things do unfortunately take time.

Things I learned from a recent sale were that you just have to learn to be patient,everything seems to take twice as long as you would perhaps expect and there can be long periods where nothing much seems to be happening as solicitors await searches and responses to enquiries raised.

My solicitors assistant was however always contactable and responsive but the usual reply was we are waiting for her to review the file and we will update you accordingly when this has been done.

Misthios

Thank you. It makes sense. 

housebuyer143

Misthios said:

Many Thanks everyone, to be honest I just came off the phone from the estate agent who said to me ''these things take time''.......

Ehmmmm just to receive a confirmation that they are on the ball? A single answer? I only asked form the ventor and it's solicitor for a confirmation that they are working on preparing the draft contract which according to many it doesn't take more than 1-2 weeks? Am not talking about exchanging contracts, am talking about preparing and send the draft contract.

To be honest, I was not amused by the agent's attitude and I might withdraw the offer if I don't have any re assurances next week. 

Someone else could be just as bad. Ask next week if the seller could forward an email sent to their solicitor to the agent to assure you it is all fine. 
99% of the time it's just the solicitor being slow.

RM_2013

I understand completely how frustrating it is.  We are very much an “instant” society and with email and instant messaging we are quite often used to instant replies. What I am learning painfully from my experience that that I have no control over the speed of things and other people.  Very frustrating when I like to be in control of everything!!!!
i am just hoping that if I can be patient things will work out somehow with our sale and purchase:  
good luck with yours 

sidneyvic

I was expecting to find you were months in, not a couple of weeks..... Patience is a virtue and the estate agent is perfectly correct these  thing take time. If you do pull out what are you going to do when next purchase takes just as long ? You will also be blacklisted by this agent and probably all his mates and may find it hard for anyone to take you seriously. Maybe do a bit of researched the average time a house purchase takes . ? 

london21

You seem to be in a rush, conveyancing takes time.

The buying process can go on for average 12 weeks.

Misthios

sidneyvic said:

I was expecting to find you were months in, not a couple of weeks..... Patience is a virtue and the estate agent is perfectly correct these  thing take time. If you do pull out what are you going to do when next purchase takes just as long ? You will also be blacklisted by this agent and probably all his mates and may find it hard for anyone to take you seriously. Maybe do a bit of researched the average time a house purchase takes . ? 

Well I appreciate and totally understand what you re saying but you have probably miased out 2 points. A) They asked me to commit in a quick sale and be responsive before they accept my offer, they asked me for a proof of issued mortgage and not just in principle, they asked me for a proof that I have a solicitor on standby and I have provided everything. On top I have paid for a top solicitor who prioritise the case in order to meet the seller's and agent's demands. If the seller is demanding I think it's only fair to ask for some commitment on his behalf.The only thing I asked was to confirm that the seller and his solicitor are on ball to preparing the draft document. So.... Just telling me that it takes time, It's so vague when the average time to draw draft contract is about 2 weeks. Furthermore, there's no such a blasklist thing. The estate agents are legally binded to not hide offers they receive from the prospective buyers.