Probate House Sale

pheeb__

we have put an offer in on a house back on 12th April 2024 and the offer was accepted. We then were informed that the house was going through probate and it had been submitted 2 weeks prior to us putting in an offer. (we didn't realise that the house was a probate house until after the offer was inputted) the estate agent advised that it would only take 8 weeks for the vendor to receive the probate as it was a simple estate. fast forward to last week, I had chased for an update as it had been 16 weeks. 

After chasing the agent, I was then advised that the probate had actually been applied for back in December and the probate has currently been going through for the past 30 or so weeks but to not worry as the vendor was chasing and our buyers wasn't chasing for an update on our house. 

is this a normal timescale for probate? 

Flugelhorn

probate can sometimes take ages (well over 30 weeks)  - been quite bad over the last few years. personally I can never understand why people market properties without the bit of paper 

p00hsticks

It can take anything from a couple of weeks to years....
In response to Flugelhorns comment, I suspect some executors are concerned about debts for utilities and maintenance building up, and so risk getting it onto the market ASAP in the hope that the probate application will come through by the time exchange of contracts is imminent. 

Cazzaloulou68

We marketed my mums house as a probate property..offer accepted in April..probate granted in June (applied in May) still waiting for it to go thru..i think as long as it is marketed as a probate property then its ok

pheeb__

Cazzaloulou68 said:

We marketed my mums house as a probate property..offer accepted in April..probate granted in June (applied in May) still waiting for it to go thru..i think as long as it is marketed as a probate property then its ok

thanks for the response, when we viewed the house and put the offer in there was no mention of the probate. just that the house had no chain 

Marcon

pheeb__ said:

Cazzaloulou68 said:

We marketed my mums house as a probate property..offer accepted in April..probate granted in June (applied in May) still waiting for it to go thru..i think as long as it is marketed as a probate property then its ok

thanks for the response, when we viewed the house and put the offer in there was no mention of the probate. just that the house had no chain 

You should have been told, but it's easy to see why you weren't - vendor (and estate agent, who should definitely have known better) genuinely believing that by the time push came to shove, probate would be through and a 'needless' delay would have been avoided - which is why people market properties 'without the bit of paper'.