Sellers’ Pack?

[MeMeMeow85]

If you’re selling/recently sold your house, how long did it take you to complete the sellers’ pack?

We are supposed to be buying a freehold house (both parties chain-free). Our offer was accepted 16 days ago and I’ve just found out that our solicitor hasn’t yet received the sellers’ pack, so hasn’t started the searches!!

No wonder she laughed when I first told her that I wanted to complete in 4 weeks 🙄

We’ve already spent £2.5k on survey and fees etc, so shouldn’t the seller have got their act together by now?

Also, my solicitor is pissing me off by communicating by letter, instead of email. Who does that nowadays??!

Took me about an hour - but then I was organised and had all the relevant documents and guarantees to hand. There are two forms - one is the property info form and the other is the fittings and contents form. We received our sellers' F&C form several weeks after the property info form. Understandable as they found their onward purchase after accepting our offer and wanted to figure out what they might leave and what they'd take with them which wasn't much, unfortunately

I filled one in one yesterday, same as wowfudge about an hour.

I'm guesstimating 6 to 8 weeks from start to finish, if there aren't any problems anyway.

I think they like to post certain documents out but bits and bobs can be done by email surely.

I know easier said than done OP, try and keep calm, we'll get there in the end. It'll be all worth it

Has your solicitor got special quality paper? Probably a security measure.

Most purchases take about 3 months from start to finish so 4 weeks is being very optimistic!

Before you know how slow everyone is being, you'd need to know when the solicitors were instructed, whether the seller is an existing client or (more likely tbh), the solicitors need to get the ID docs, check them and do all the preliminary stuff before they will send the seller the forms to fill out. It's then down to how efficient and quick the sellers will be at filling in the forms. If the seller have sat on the forms for 16 days, that's slow - if they've only had them a day or so, probably not.

I recently sold my mother’s house to FTB. I got really frustrated by the solicitors using snail mail instead of email. She said they had to do things “properly”. Surely in this day and age it could be done more easily?
It wasn’t just the time things were in the post....she would dictate a letter that went to the typing pool and then the post room.......

By sellers pack do you mean the fixtures and fittings form, and the sellers property information form? These are the only two documents that I can think the seller needs to complete at this stage.

Your solicitor does not need these in order to apply for searches. All the really need is a copy of the title and title plan, which can be dowloaded here for £6: Land Registry