Offer accepted on house. Leaving London for the country. Big move etc. Turns out drive not included. Annoying we thought, maybe we'll haggle over price. It's alright they say, right of way is on deeds so you can still park etc.
Our solicitor says. No it isn't. Sure enough right of way isn't on the deeds. House is two cottages knocked together and right of way was on old deeds for one house, not the new deed for combined house. No parking without access over drive. Windy country lane, no room for parking elsewhere at all.
This is dream house, DH is devastated and sellers and estate agent are just ignoring us and saying don't worry about it. Our solicitor says we are utterly mad to buy without them reapplying for right of way and then securing it before completion. If it's all fine and not a worry he says, then it'll take them a couple of weeks to get it into the new deeds, they pay if there's a charge and you pay for house secure in knowledge it's value won't be affected by lack of right of way. If they won't, our sol says, means it's likely not to be easy, or expensive to resecure right of way.
Am I just an untrusting Londoner who wants is dotted and t's crossed as estate agents and sellers' solicitor is saying? They've lived in house for 25 years and never had any problems. But our solicitor says no right of way on deeds means no right of way and plenty of recent case law to show these cases are challenged and can be lost. He says if they won't renew it with land owner to get it on deeds we need to abort buying process?
Please someone help - driving me insane. What would you do?