When is it allowed for me to be impatient

[unlikelycelery]

Offer accepted on a property over a month ago. I got my survey and mortgage offer within two weeks. My solicitor completed searches and sent enquiries to vendor side on 18 August. Heard nothing since - when is it ok for me to start pushing?

Bump! :)

Now

Well I would🥴

Last week😂

Get on to them tomorrow

Push constantly. Daily phone calls to agent and solicitor. Make yourself a nuisance. It's the only way anything gets done.

Ok thanks!!! Everyone kept telling me to be patient and not be an annoying FTB but this felt like a long time. Do I push via my solicitor, or to the estate agent?

No chain by the way and the vendor has already moved out, so is in everyone’s interest for this to move fast

Well, if your solicitor sent enquiries on the 18th August (by email or post?), that makes only 12 working days between then and today. Those enquiries will probably need to be sent to the vendor and other third parties for their responses. The vendor's solicitor may well wait for responses to come back from all parties (vendor and third parties) before sending over the responses to your solicitor.

It might seem to be a long time for you, since you are just waiting and haven't heard anything, but in reality 12 working days isn't a long time for enquiries to be raised, forwarded to relevant parties and responses to be received, reviewed and sent back to your solicitor.

Unlike the advice above about pushing constantly, I would suggest that if you want to push constantly, then you will slow your solicitor down. I would go as far as to say that the reason you haven't heard anything is because your solicitor hasn't heard anything.

Responses to enquiries are not always satisfactory either, so they are often not dealt with quickly because your solicitor may want further information.

All depends on how good your solicitor is. If you’re paying decent money for one then the above advice about being patient is sensible, if it’s a large conveyancer with huge workload then chase and chase again!

Enuiries can take ages depending on responses from vendor and whhether yourt solicitor is satisfied with them, f not more questions follow. But you could and should push, at least to know if some have been answered.
Also vendors may have been ob a holiday late summer / dealing with a school term start.
My enquiries as a buyer were the longest part of the process - nearly two months. I also had a chagne of solicitor within the firm in that time as the original one went on sick leave - aer you sure yours is not away? Everything take longer over August!

Be careful what you wish for. Once that paperwork has been circulated and everyone's happy it'll all happening.
Keep packing those boxes 👍🏻
I'm on the other side of the lull and everything is progressing at a rapid pace.

As @Frecklespy 12 working days is not long in particular in August - one solicitor is away for a week you lose 5 days then the other solicitor is or the vendor is away. I would make a polite enquiry if they have heard anything.