I’m in my twenties so would be grateful from advice from people who have more knowledge or experience of this than me.
We’ve already been granted probate on mum’s estate. We (or more specifically I - no other family) now need to sell her house. I can either do this through her solicitor, who is acting as executor, or have it transferred into my name to sell it myself.
The pros of getting the solicitor to sell it is that I live across the country. The downside is that I don’t trust mum’s choice of solicitor to do a good job at it. It took them nine months from her death to even APPLY for probate, on a simple estate.
The pros of selling it myself is that I could choose the pricing strategy etc to balance selling it quickly against getting a reasonable sum for it. The cons are being 250 miles away and also that it would take at least twelve to eighteen months for me to be able to put it on the market according to mum’s solicitor because that’s how long it’s taking the land registry to update ownership records. The solicitor has said they would write to the land registry on my behalf to say I’d need this expedited, but that there’s no guarantee this would be granted, and if it were, we have no way of knowing how much it would speed up the process by.