Buying a house from divorced couple, LIES!!!

middleagedriver

badger09 said:

middleagedriver said:

dimbo61 said:

Nearly every property sale  now seems to be taking a very long time.
Solicitors are acting for both the buyers and mortgage lenders,
Estate agents want a quick sale as ( Many wont get paid till the sale completes )
Searches, survey, Land registry checks are all taking longer than normal.
Hope your house purchase happens 

We are ready to go, nothing to sell, no chain their side and everything our side is now done. We're viewing another house tomorrow just as a plan B. But still hoping plan A happens as plan B is going to cost us thousands more in interest payments.

If you haven’t already done so, I suggest you tell the EA & both vendors that in view of the ongoing delay, you are looking at other properties. Hopefully that will flush out whoever is causing the delay.

That is what we are going to do, but only involve the estate agent as we have decided to cease all direct contact with the vendors for now, it was only causing us more stress. Going to speak to the estate agent tomorrow

Ramouth

middleagedriver said:

badger09 said:

middleagedriver said:

dimbo61 said:

Nearly every property sale  now seems to be taking a very long time.
Solicitors are acting for both the buyers and mortgage lenders,
Estate agents want a quick sale as ( Many wont get paid till the sale completes )
Searches, survey, Land registry checks are all taking longer than normal.
Hope your house purchase happens 

We are ready to go, nothing to sell, no chain their side and everything our side is now done. We're viewing another house tomorrow just as a plan B. But still hoping plan A happens as plan B is going to cost us thousands more in interest payments.

If you haven’t already done so, I suggest you tell the EA & both vendors that in view of the ongoing delay, you are looking at other properties. Hopefully that will flush out whoever is causing the delay.

That is what we are going to do, but only involve the estate agent as we have decided to cease all direct contact with the vendors for now, it was only causing us more stress. Going to speak to the estate agent tomorrow

Take care with how you phrase it, when we did this with a property we were trying to buy the agent took it as us pulling out and immediately started re-marketing.  

housebuyer143

middleagedriver said:

Monster_mash said:

middleagedriver said:

Been trying to buy a house for over 5 month now from a couple that have divorced. Have opened direct contact with both sellers, everything seems ok on the surface.

There has been delay after delay, they both keep blaming their solicitor saying they can’t get a hold of them etc. Our solicitor is now blaming the sellers for holding things up, I just don’t know which one is lying.

We are both using a large conveyancing company that are based in Leicester (those who know know) which have awful reviews on TrustPilot. But we have actually used our conveyancer before and they were spot on and still are now to be fair, we just don’t know how much we trust the sellers solicitor.

Anyone had this before, what did you do?

P.S. We would have pulled out ages ago if it wasn’t for having a low interest mortgage offer in place. 

Doing things quickly relies on both of them wanting the money.  Chances are if they say their solicitor is holding things up and your solicitor says the same, chances are that is the problem.  

We had the same problem, except the vendor’s solicitor dragged their feet, when the vendors chased them up, they blamed us.  Even held up on the moving day.  2 and a half years later we look back and laugh

Sorry original post is maybe a bit confusing. Our solicitor is being told by the sellers solicitor that the sellers are holding things up. But I asked the vendors directly what's going on they keep blaming their solicitor. Hence which one is lying. It's all a mess at the minute which should be a fairly simple transaction as there is no chain.

From my experience, if you are waiting on the solicitor they will just ignore you until such time as they are ready to respond. If they have responded and outrightly said the sellers are holding it up, then its probably true.

Tiglet2

When there is a property sale between a divorcing couple, it is usually one of the couple that are not keen to sell - usually the one still in the marital home.  The one not keen to sell will delay signing papers, or not sign them at all.  They won't comply with ID requests (by not providing them) and if they need their documents witnessed, will be unable to find a witness.    

london21

Things are just dragging, can wait or find an alternative property. 

SusieT

If the vendors are blaming the solicitor, and solicitor are blaming the, then perhaps it would be a good idea for vendors to contact their solicitor and ask what they need, since as far as they are concerned there is nothing outstanding due from them.