Am I entitled l?

Bigphil1474

OP, when we bought and sold last year it was about 5 months from offer accepted to moving. At the end, everything moved very quickly though - our solicitor just got in touch and said everyone's ready, when do you want to move. We'd had comms with our vendor and knew they wanted to move quick, so we basically just said exchange next week, move week after? and that was settled. Definitely badger the hell out of the solicitors. We had to have words with ours as they kept asking our vendors for electrical certificates that even we had 2 copies of, and copies of planning docs which we'd also received from our solicitors. 

TheJP

GrubbyGirl_2 said:

This is the reason why, after 10 house purchases in my lifetime, I always pick a local conveyancer.  That way you can always turn up to their office - hard to ignore you when you're standing there

Blotto17 said:

I would show up as it is local but I’d just feel like they’ll just give me the - “no current updates” line and where do I go from there? 

If they have say 6 cases they are working on and all 6 keep turning up asking for immediate updates then nothing will get done. I have used online conveyancers for my 2 purchases and 1 sale, all complete in 3.5 months. It sounds like your conveyancer is being cautious and making sure all questions are answered because that is what their job is at the end of the day. The process can take 1 month or 12 months as frustrating as it can be i would rather my interests were protected.

Chief_of_Staffy

Blotto17 said:

I would show up as it is local but I’d just feel like they’ll just give me the - “no current updates” line and where do I go from there? 

Give them the "I'll just wait here in your office until you have some updates" line.

Maahes

Chief_of_Staffy said:

Blotto17 said:

I would show up as it is local but I’d just feel like they’ll just give me the - “no current updates” line and where do I go from there? 

Give them the "I'll just wait here in your office until you have some updates" line.

Technically, 'no current updates' is an update.

horsewithnoname

Keep on at your solicitor; the squeaky wheel gets the oil 😉

subjecttocontract

The management company (MC) are usually asked to provide an information pack for the buyers solicitor. The MC make a charge for the work, sometimes £200 or more. They ask for payment in advance. Once paid they have little/no incentive to provide the info pack in a timely manner. I've known it to take 6-8 weeks and can be a major contributor to delays in the process. Of course thats not the solicitors fault.

Blotto17

Thanks for all the feedback. It’s just I ring for an update as emails can take up to a month to be replied to. And the secretary says I’ll get them to give you a call back when they’re free - no call back. Ever! Isn’t it just common courtesy. It doesn’t take one minute. I work as a nurse and we get relatives calling up for updates about patients all the time. We can’t always take the call there and then but the update is given eventually. They would never just be ghosted. And guess what - we’re really busy too.