Sellers/Buyers Roll Call 9 and STILL going

[kerrymucklowe2020]

Is it time to start s new thread as the previous one has nearly 900 posts?

Yes I think mine is if either party fail to complete, a “notice to complete” is something you serve on the other party if they fail to complete. Very confusing it wasn’t more clearly phrased! No response from solicitor but just researched the standard conditions of sale online myself.

Really doesn’t feel like the solicitor is earning their fee, I don’t feel very advised by them at all!

@Jujuball Thank you, that's very helpful! We didn't get a fittings and contents form - will email to ask if this can be sent through.

@Jujuball you'll regret exposing yourself, we're going to be constantly tagging you into this thread and PMing you now haha.

@notheragain4 I'm just hoping none of my clients are on here complaining about me!

@Bells3032*
Hopefully just solicitor's enquiries to do now. Road still showing as private, although Barratt told us it would be adopted at some point in the future by the council. They just need to confirm that to the solicitor now.*

Same here.
Except........
No one in our chain has a mortgage yet......is this normal ( or just normal now due to covid ?)

@Lemonylemony Really doesn’t feel like the solicitor is earning their fee, I don’t feel very advised by them at all!

Snap. I'm reading through the deeds and convenants and struggling to understand them. Why is legalese so impenetrable and seemingly open to interpretation?? I thought the point was to make things clear-cut and air-tight!

^"Not to do or keep or suffer to be done or kept on the said property
hereby assured any act or thing which may be or become a nuisance or
annoyance or cause inconvenience to the Council or to the occupiers or
owners of adjoining or neighbouring property."^

This one made me laugh. It's word salad!!

There's also something weird on the plans. Apparently there's a 20cm ( strip? Land?) that appears to run smack through the middle of the houses ( semi ). Obviously solicitor has queried this but does anyone have any ideas?

Does anyone have any idea re my last question please? I've posted a couple of times on this thread and none of them have had any responses.

@kerrymucklowe2020 ooh! mysterious. Some kind of mains pipe that the council or a water company owns, maybe??

@unicornparty- I haven't replied as I don't know. Am not there yet. Also not sure if it's different if eg you are buying a new build?
Sure someone else will be along to advise!

@bighuff - I know- strange!

@notheragain4 we're doing OK thank you.

We had 11 viewings between Tuesday and Saturday last week. Our estate agent was off sick today but I had a bit of feedback which was all a bit meh. Nothing we could do anything about - the area, a block of flats opposite - one didn't like our decor and I had been thinking of repainting a couple of rooms just to freshen it.

One offer £15k under asking price (we would have accepted) but when they looked into it the potential buyer had bad credit.

Fingers crossed we might get an offer in August!

@unicornparty surely it is hard to estimate - it could be a day, or if they are being slow, it could be over a week.

@unicornparty Not sure many of us have got to that stage

@unicornparty Hi I'm a property solicitor so will try to help!

All solicitors do things in a different order, so there's so set standard time between signing and exchange. For me personally, my (rough) order of tasks for a purchase would be:

• order searches and raise initial enquiries
• receive search results and raise further enquiries if needed
• send a report about the house to the client once everything has been answered and the mortgage offer is in, along with all the paperwork to sign. Try and agree a completion date at this point.
• client returns their signed paperwork and pays their deposit/fees to us, at which point we can exchange.

If you've got your searches and mortgage offer back you're hopefully almost there, maybe your solicitor has some enquiries outstanding - I would ask them what ya outstanding before exchange and an estimated timescale for that if you've not already asked

Oops a few typos there - should say there's no set time between signing and exchange! And ask what is outstanding, not ya

@unicornparty I'm the same stage as you but not getting any response from solicitors in regards to dates, I will respond as soon as I do.

If it's you @Jujuball hurry up please

@bighuff word salad competition entry

Thank you all especially JuJu.

I've asked for a timescale but had no response. We haven't been asked for a completion date yet either which looks like is needed before exchange.

@notheragain4 I'll let you know if I get a timescale too

Haha love these word salad entries, so accurate 😂 they're much better than trying to decipher the handwritten ones from the 1800s on original deeds at least!

@Jujuball Long shot - don't suppose you have any idea what an unaccounted for 20cm strip of land running smack through the middle of two ( joined ) houses could relate to?.

@unicornparty yes unless you're buying a new build "on notice", you'll agree a completion date to aim for before exchange. It can all happen quite quickly once the enquiries are all answered though, when I send my report to my clients I usually tell them completion in 1-2 weeks would be the quickest I could do (gives me time to sort their mortgage funds etc.), depending on the agreement of the chain to go that fast. So you never know, it could be closer than you think

@kerrymucklowe2020 do you have a pic of the plan?

@Jujuball we are buying a new build so need to exchange ASAP, not too concerned if completion takes a bit longer (breaking chain going into rental), if we've done everything (I think) can exchange happen really quickly or is 1-2 weeks notice required for that too?