Buying a house from an onwards chain waiting for probate - Advice please

User9943

km1500 said:

My neice bought a probate house recently - probate took 7 months

Do you know if there was any issues to make it take so long? As far as I'm aware this should be a straight forward case 

UnderOffer

My understanding is that there are two stages which can be quite long with the process, applying for probate, then probate being granted. 

Have you confirmed that Probate has been applied for and had a date the submission was made? This will give you an idea of how many weeks it is taking and potentially work out when it can be chased. 

My friend was reassured by the Estate Agent that her probate purchase had been “submitted” and waited months with chasing, but seems it hadn’t been applied for as early as the EA had indicated, once it had been submitted took 3 months to be granted, however this was during their upgrade of the computerised system which seemed to cause additional delays. 

User9943

UnderOffer said:

My understanding is that there are two stages which can be quite long with the process, applying for probate, then probate being granted. 

Have you confirmed that Probate has been applied for and had a date the submission was made? This will give you an idea of how many weeks it is taking and potentially work out when it can be chased. 

My friend was reassured by the Estate Agent that her probate purchase had been “submitted” and waited months with chasing, but seems it hadn’t been applied for as early as the EA had indicated, once it had been submitted took 3 months to be granted, however this was during their upgrade of the computerised system which seemed to cause additional delays. 

We have a letter from their solicitor stating that it had been 10 weeks since applying to probate on 3rd August and that they are unable to chase it until WC 18th September so I'm assuming they are 15 weeks in now 

UnderOffer

@User9943 ah that’s promising then. Keeping fingers crossed not too much longer to wait. 

sheramber

What is your plan if your seller does  not  agree to break the chain?

chanz4

Grizebeck said:

chanz4 said:

probate is min norm 6 months

Where did you get that figure from?

experience dealing with them

hjd

The property my son is buying is a probate sale; probate has just been granted after 3 months.

Bigphil1474

I did a DIY probate online for my dads house at the end of last year. Everything was as requested and it only took about a month for it to be granted. My OH has her dads house going through probate via the solicitor he appointed in his will when he died in April, and it has been 4 months and counting. It does seem that the probate office has slowed somewhat this year, and solicitors don't exactly bust a gut to get it done.

Grizebeck

chanz4 said:

Grizebeck said:

chanz4 said:

probate is min norm 6 months

Where did you get that figure from?

experience dealing with them

Yes but that isn't indicative 

Grizebeck

Bigphil1474 said:

I did a DIY probate online for my dads house at the end of last year. Everything was as requested and it only took about a month for it to be granted. My OH has her dads house going through probate via the solicitor he appointed in his will when he died in April, and it has been 4 months and counting. It does seem that the probate office has slowed somewhat this year, and solicitors don't exactly bust a gut to get it done.

Yes luckily they have taken on more staff this year