Title Deed Issue- after house purchase

[DillyDallyingAllDay]

We purchased our home- one that had been already extended- about a year ago. The previous owners purchased additional land to be able to extend the original home. 6 months after we moved, we found out that the additional land that was purchased for the extension hadn't been transferred over. We got in touch with our solicitors who contacted the vendors' solicitors to get this oversight rectified- only, the vendor, is refusing, by way of ignoring all correspondence, to sign the paperwork. We've been chasing this for 6 months; have contacted him directly and through every way we can think of- can anyone shed some light on why the vendor would be doing this? Literally the land our kitchen sits on, isn't ours? Any ideas what implications, if any, this could have for us? What could we reasonably be expected to do; whose fault is this?

Your solicitor is best placed to answer this. Why did they not spot this defect in title?

It's the solicitors fault.

Do you know that the person still lives at the address you are posting to? Are you sure they are ignoring and haven't moved?

If you do know that they are receiving the correspondence you could ask your solicitor if it would be reasonable to send them a letter saying you will attempt to recover any further legal costs from them via the court process (small claims court) if they continue to ignore your reasonable requests for their co-operation. I.e. the land is rightfully yours as you did purchase it although the title deed was not transferred as it should have been.

Might just be enough to spook them into co-operating due to the worry it could end up costing them money.

Quite early on your solicitor would probably have emailed/shown you a copy of the plot you were purchasing with a bit outlined in red and asked you if it looked right - did that happen and what did you say?