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Land not transferred by solicitors

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  • Tiglet2
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    The sellers solicitor knew as they had provided details of the two plots in the PIF. The additional plot is owned by the crown now as the building company that owned the land has been dissolved, hence we it’s going to cost £7k plus to transfer.

    If the sellers solicitors had provided the information within the PIF, surely they knew that 2 plots had to be transferred, otherwise why mention it?

    is this information from the sellers side sufficient enough or should they have explicitly stated within the contract?
    Should have been explicitly stated within the contract and transfer.

    What enquiries did your solicitor raise in relation to the PIF?  You should have received a copy of them within the Report on Title.
  • DE_612183
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    Can you contact the sellers solicitors and get them to represent you in sorting this out?
  • Is the Report on Title a specific document? Our solicitors didn’t raise any enquiries with the sellers solicitor hence why we are in this position.

    the sellers solicitor will not engage with us and through their client (our nextdoor neighbour) stated that our solicitors were negligent. Our solicitors wrote to them to retract their statement to their client
  • DE_612183
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    perhaps the best route is to go to the law society and complain about both sets of solicitors and then they can sort it out?
  • We did complain they said they don’t deal with negligence claims which this is
  • Tiglet2
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    Are your neighbours (the owners of this parcel of land) willing to transfer the land to you?  If so, perhaps consider instructing a new set of the solicitors to act in the transfer.  Should be simple enough if everyone is in agreement.

    Then tackle the complaint against the original solicitors separately.
  • DE_612183
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    Tiglet2 said:
    Are your neighbours (the owners of this parcel of land) willing to transfer the land to you?  If so, perhaps consider instructing a new set of the solicitors to act in the transfer.  Should be simple enough if everyone is in agreement.

    Then tackle the complaint against the original solicitors separately.
    I think @j@jabbabroadley said the land had reverted to the crown?
  • It has gone to the crown, the seller (a company is dissolved), therefore we are now facing a massive bill to transfer 
  • user1977
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    You should be getting independent advice on this anyway rather than continuing to deal with your old solicitors.
  • Tiglet2
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    It has gone to the crown, the seller (a company is dissolved), therefore we are now facing a massive bill to transfer 
    Oh yes, I am sorry for missing that.  It is obviously quite complicated.  I suppose it will all depend on how much you want the land for however much the massive bill is likely to be and whether or not the solicitors were negligent here or whether the seller and buyer did not make it clear that there were two transactions to be sold/purchased.  Your conveyancing fees would have been higher for two transactions anyway, so this could be mitigated against the bill of transferring the land from the Crown.

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