Muve solicitors

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Had quote from local conveyancing firm as affiliated with estate agents for approx £1700. Online quote from MUVE conveying for £905.
AIBU to think I should go with the cheapest quote as all firms work remotely through a portal now and it makes little difference. Having bought a house 5 years ago and sold recently, I discovered the more traditional firm I used back then were hopeless and missed huge issues which came back to bite me when selling and would not help rectify their errors at all.

Purchase is a 1960s bungalow in residential area, part of a probate sale (granted at least a year ago) and I will be a cash buyer so not anticipating any surprises. Would welcome people's thoughts and/or experiences of using MUVE. Thanks.

I used MUVE about 3 years ago to sell a leasehold flat and buy a house. There were complications due to the lease and they seemed to handle it well. They were pretty good at answering the phone/getting back to me and the online portal was useful to keep track of where we were at. They were much cheaper than the local solicitor I had used to buy the flat in the first place and I found them more responsive.

That's really helpful to know. The solicitors I used back in January this year were great but their cost is even higher - £2k! Thank you

Did you use Muve in the end?

Still using them and it's been awful. First solicitor was rubbish, arranged an exchange date 28 hours in advance. Kept messaging her to say but you haven't requested the funds! Can't be done. Then she disappeared and noone answered messages for 10 days. Turns out she's left the organisation. New solicitor did same then was on annual leave so despite thinking we were exchanging, it was never going to have happened. Now this solicitor has said that land registry and title deeds don't agree so have batted it back to vendor's solicitors.i am not happy. 😡

OMG that’s awful. I’m at the point of having panic attacks almost daily due to Muve. They have done absolutely nothing for 3 weeks including refusing my calls, ignoring my emails and not sending us a document to sign. They are also ignoring my solicitor and estate agent. It’s scary. I’m scared we are going to loose the house and a shed load of money. Their incompetence is beyond measure. We’ve been going since start of May. We actually had 4 weeks slip by around June/July with them doing nothing and they hadn’t even passed our enquiry answers into our purchaser. I don’t understand how they are still able to operate and not being investigated. It’s making me very unwell.

Go cheap. Even your cheap quote sounds high! We live in the south of England but use a cheap conveyancer in Blackpool! x