Ready to exchange, my solicitor can't get hold if buyers solicitors. Terrified they're going to pull out

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Hand holding required please. Buyers solicitors not answering phone or email since Monday. We are ready to exchange. Date already been put back for completion for two weeks because they asked. If we don't exchange by Tuesday our reservation expires, builder threatening to pull out. Feeling desperate. What can I do?

Have you phoned the buyer's solicitors? Google the number and phone and ask to speak to their conveyancing team. You don't even need to say who you are.

I've asked the estate agent to ring both the buyers and the solicitors. If no joy that's my next step. I'm just terrified that it's all going to go wrong. I'm packed and the house took 6 months to get an offer

I wouldn't have thought the buyers' solicitor would talk to the OP.

Hope your EA/your own sol succeeds in getting hold of them, it's in the EA's interests to do so after all.

Fingers crossed for you......

Keep ringing the Estate Agent, make a nuisance of yourself.

Are your buyers first time buyers? If not then maybe they also have an estate agent your agent could ring.

Good luck, will keep my fingers crossed for you.

Does the EA know about the Tuesday deadline? If not, it's worth making them aware - they don't want to lose their fee either.

Your solicitor needs to phone the buyers solicitors and insist upon an update. The Law Society would not take too kindly to their failure to respond to communications.

Do you know if it's a big firm or a one man band small local solicitors? We were in the same situation but the other way around last month. We were buying and our solicitor went AWOL for about four days. Both us and the vendor were frantic. He was off sick without cover. My lesson learnt was to go for a firm with more solicitors next time!
Anyway, fingers crossed it is something simple and annoying like this. Good luck!

Thanks everyone. My estate agent (hatched, they're ace, would definitely recommend) has chased up and down the chain, and finally the solicitors have managed to speak to each other. If I was as slow to respond in my employment, as most conveyancing solicitors are, I would expect the sack, but we are now hoping to be ready on Monday. Still biting our nails though.

Feel for you, we had a similar situation but it was the vendor that went missing and wouldn't call their solicitor to confirm they agreed our proposed completion date. We had a sleepless night but thankfully exchanged contracts the next morning with our preferred completion date. We move next week!

Brilliant news, good luck for Monday!