Selling and buying: do I need my solicitor to oversee both?

[JaneExotic]

I have sold my house and had an offer accepted on a bungalow.
My solicitor has sent me two lots of paperwork - one to deal with the buying of the bungalow and the other with the selling of my house.

I can’t remember my solicitor doing both of these jobs when I moved last time. DH thinks he made a mistake instructing the solicitor to both buy and sell but I’m not sure about anything any more!!

Is it common for the solicitor to deal with a sale? If not, who does it?

Yes. The solicitor does both.

I’ve always had a solicitor do both.

Who else is going to deal with land registry, your mortgage provider, your vendor's solicitor, your buyer's solicitor...?

@SlidesAndLadders That's EXACTLY what I asked DH!

Our solicitor did both and billed them separately.

We instructed ours to do both. Technically you could use two different solicitors but I don't see why you would.

Thanks everyone

Yes we have just moved and used the same solicitor for buying and selling.

It's completely standard for the solicitor to deal with both.

Definitely use solicitor to do both. I had to use two different ones before and it was a right faff. One solicitor was definitely better than the other which added to the stress.

It would be very unusual not to

We used two different solicitors last year for reasons I won't bore you with, was a ballache, I don't recommend it!