It's been nearly 6 months since we had our offer accepted on our purchase property. We're second from bottom in the chain and it did take a few weeks for the rest of the chain to get to established, although our vendors vendor are moving in with family to speed things up. The searches for our purchase were due back last week.
Apart from things generally being a bit slow (but within normal range I would say), our solicitor is being completely uncommunicative. We last had successful contact 4 weeks ago when she asked for answers to some of our buyers queries, but failed to acknowledge our previous emails up to that point regarding some of our queries on our purchase. Since then we have emailed and phoned several times to ask for progress updates (they have an online tracker but haven't updated since May) and also some other questions but haven't received a single reply or call back. We currently have no idea as to how things are progressing.
I know things have been busy with the stamp duty cut off, but am I being unreasonable in thinking this is poor service? Is there anything I can actually do about it other than switch solicitor, which u expect would be a lengthy process in itself?