What stage to contact solicitor?

[sunny423]

Offer accepted last Monday, mortgage application hopefully going in today after lots of faffing from mortgage advisor. I've been given a quote for solicitor by MA and would like to se, but MA hasn't told me when I should contact them and when I've asked hasn't answered directly. What stage do you get these involved/contact them? And should this be me or MA? TIA

Once the chain is complete and you have your mortgage offer in.

Surely you contact the solicitor as soon as your offer is accepted?
There’s no need to know what’s going on on the rest of the chain.
After the offer is accepted, the next phone call is to solicitor

Are you in England? Normally your EA would ask for your solicitors details as soon as an offer is accepted, to give them the other party's solicitor's details so that they can get cracking. This would be in addition to you formally instructing them to proceed.

Yes in England, this is my first house purchase so very new to it all. I told estate agent I was likely to use the one my MA give me the quote for. But I haven't contacted them as MA hadn't told me I needed to despite asking a few times, always managed to not answer the question directly which is strange so I left it for me. Wasn't sure if he deals with that or me.

Phone the solicitor, tell them your mortgage advisor recommended them, give them the ea details and the details of the property and then he sorts out everything with your vendors solicitor.

We had to instruct the solicitor and give the estate agent our solicitor's details before they would issue the memorandum of sale and take the property off the market.

It wouldn't be up to your MA to tell you to do so. It's nothing to do with him/her. I'm more surprised your EA isn't chasing the details. You need to get in contact and get the solicitor to tell you what they would charge you, so you can then agree (or not) that you want them to act for you. Make sure it's a fixed price for the work not variable.

Normally the Estate Agent would be asking for the details of your solicitor/conveyancer for the Memorandum of Sale that they issue when an offer is accepted. Contact them ASAP!

The mortgage application handled by the mortgage advisor is one part of the house buying process.

The solicitor carrying out the conveyancing is a connected, but ultimately rather separate part of the same process.

Personally I would be contacting solicitors before I had identified a property I wished to buy.

I'm amazed you're not getting chased by the EA for details of who you wish to appoint.

Thanks everyone, I'm just waiting for mortgage advisor to actually put the application in, they're doing so much faffing ring back and forth asking for details they've already been given, it's just dragging on before it's even started, he isn't free either so expected better service. I'll ring solicitor either when I finish work or first thing tomorrow. Just need to clarify what advisor is actually doing, he's had over a week. Estate agents did ask about solicitor I said id been given a quote by advisor and was likely to go ahead with them.

Why are you waiting for the MA to clarify stuff? Don't you want the solicitor to start getting on with the conveyancing work? Hope the phone calls go well!

The solicitor doesn’t need your mortgage details to get started, that can come later, there’s lots of searches that can take time, so he needs to get started on them.

yesterday really.
it's up to you to organise.

It's all in hand now thanks everyone, I'll get my head round all this soon!