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Will2911
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Hi,
We are currently selling our leasehold property. We have sold it to a company that has agreed to pay full market value. The sale was agreed some months ago. We have in the mean time found a freehold property we want to buy and our solicitor has completed the conveyancing on it. It is ready to exchange. As is we understand our sale. However our buyers solicitor has now basically disappeared. Doesn't respond to our solicitors emails for over a fortnight, not answering the phone to them. Our estate agent has got hold of someone in his office who has repeatedly promised to get a move on, but he doesn't seem to.
Really wanted to be moved by Xmas.
We have found we have this solicitors contact details from the memo of sale and also our buyers phone number and email. Should we try and chase them up ourselves or is it likely to make things worse?
This is becoming increasingly frustrating
We are currently selling our leasehold property. We have sold it to a company that has agreed to pay full market value. The sale was agreed some months ago. We have in the mean time found a freehold property we want to buy and our solicitor has completed the conveyancing on it. It is ready to exchange. As is we understand our sale. However our buyers solicitor has now basically disappeared. Doesn't respond to our solicitors emails for over a fortnight, not answering the phone to them. Our estate agent has got hold of someone in his office who has repeatedly promised to get a move on, but he doesn't seem to.
Really wanted to be moved by Xmas.
We have found we have this solicitors contact details from the memo of sale and also our buyers phone number and email. Should we try and chase them up ourselves or is it likely to make things worse?
This is becoming increasingly frustrating
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Each situation is likely to be different, but typically solicitors act on the instructions of their clients, and if the solicitors are not communicating with your solicitor then it is entirely possible that is because their client has told them not to for one reason or another.
I would suggest that your EA gets in touch with your buyer and tries to establish the current position.0 -
We thought that too. But apparently not, our Estate Agent has spoken to the buyer and they want to get this sorted too. They have told their solicitors to get on with it, but he has not responded to them either. The only one who has had any luck contacting them is our estate agent who they have repeatedly told they will sort it out to but then promptly do nothing0
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Well, as it is your buyer who instructed them they must get onto them and get things moving. So tell the buyers to do this, it is not your place to chase them.0
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Law Society rules forbid them from talking to you, so trying to chase up yourselves is pointless. As has been said, the only party with any leverage here is your buyers themselves, i.e. the ones paying them. You (probably via your estate agent) need to apply some pressure to them so that they pass it on to their solicitor!0
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Hi,
We are currently selling our leasehold property. We have sold it to a company that has agreed to pay full market value.
You don't think that perhaps they are stringing you along until you become desperate, and then they are going to reduce their offer drastically?
I've done quite a lot of sales and purchases, and my experience is that any last minute hold-up is always down to the buyer or seller (or the bank!), not the solicitor. That still doesn't stop the buyer or seller swearing it's the solicitor's fault, mind you.No reliance should be placed on the above! Absolutely none, do you hear?0 -
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Can the buyer not use another solicitor?0
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We don't think so. The firm who are buying ours also purchased another up the road and everything went through fine, no reduced offer or anything. From what we've heard this solicitor has a reputation in the industry for being painfully slowYou don't think that perhaps they are stringing you along until you become desperate, and then they are going to reduce their offer drastically?
I've done quite a lot of sales and purchases, and my experience is that any last minute hold-up is always down to the buyer or seller (or the bank!), not the solicitor. That still doesn't stop the buyer or seller swearing it's the solicitor's fault, mind you.0 -
Thrugelmir wrote: »Then request a timescale. Put a deadline in place.
We have told them it needs to be completed by the 15th December.
I hate to do it, but I think I may have to spend tommorow harassing people in order to get anywhere with this.0 -
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