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To think buying and selling homes could be made much much simpler..

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Hungrycaterpillarsmummy · 14/02/2025 16:46

If there was a sort of "legal database" where only solicitors can access and it would show all previous documents relating to a property so there is no faff of going back and forth between solicitors.
I'm having to provide building warrants and applications, affadavits for road access etc which was obviously already done when we bought the property. Now we are going through it all again using a different solicitor for the sale.

Also the jargon ..surely the jargon could be modernised?! I just had an email saying "I see that you have emailed further requesting a mandate, I will get my colleague to prepare same and forward onto you."

Prepare the same! Honestly..

Maybe I am being unreasonable but it's such a fucking fafffffff.

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Hungrycaterpillarsmummy · 14/02/2025 17:01

I'm sure on Mumsnet we could think of multiple ideas to make it a much simpler process..but it would never be implicated and I don't know why not!

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Hungrycaterpillarsmummy · 14/02/2025 17:00

Yeh I don't understand how either.
But what I'm finding is I am having to jig a long my solicitor. They asked me for affadavit proof and when I went to old solicitors they told me it has to be mandated by the new solicitor. I forwarded the email to the new solicitor and she's now saying they will prepare the mandate.

Like wtf! Why not do this FIRST. I don't know the process, you're meant to!

Omg is infuriating!

Also they ask for in depth documents after we've provided sufficient evidence from when we bought (which was good enough for the purchase to go through, so why not the sale now?) argh

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Dramalady52 · 14/02/2025 17:00

Think that the major issue with house buying is that people can pull out up to exchange with no penalty, so you can wind up spending thousands for nothing. There ought to be some sort of early contract between buyer and seller which can only be cancelled under specific circumstances, such as bad survey causing mortgage refusal, or death of one of the parties. It would sift out the time wasters and clowns. This would have the added benefit of freeing up solicitors time as they would only be working on functioning sales.

VickyEadieofThigh · 14/02/2025 16:53

Yotoyoto · 14/02/2025 16:49

I genuinely don’t know how solicitors can be so slow and incompetent and it can be so difficult. The whole process is ridiculous

I bought my first property in 1986. There was no internet, so everything was done via phone calls, snail mail, faxes, etc.

The process is now SLOWER than it was then. HOW?

Bluevelvetsofa · 14/02/2025 16:51

Buying and selling houses is fraught with uncertainty and stress. What seems unfair particularly, is that you can spend quite a sum of money on surveys, searches and fees, only for the whole thing to fall apart before exchange.

I know it’s different in Scotland and I don’t know whether it’s an improvement, but what we have at the moment is time consuming, expensive and difficult.

Iamallowedtodisagreewithyou · 14/02/2025 16:51

Yanbu

Yotoyoto · 14/02/2025 16:49

I genuinely don’t know how solicitors can be so slow and incompetent and it can be so difficult. The whole process is ridiculous

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