Does anybody know how long the conveyance process takes nowadays with the HIP packs?

[VinoEsmeralda]

Looking to buy a house and will be making an offer shortly but wont have everything in place till 3 months from today (if all goes to plan) and dont want to tell the vendors this as there are more potential buyers..

Many thanks!

Bumping for you.

It has made absolutely no difference for us. We accepted an offer on our house in September, offered on another in early October and have yet to exchange!

thakns Puzzle and Mejon. Why is it taking so long, Mejon are the buyers stalling or is it sollicitors slwoing things down?

The sellers are our problem at the moment. We should be ideal buyers as we don't require a mortgage and have a ready and willing buyer for our property but they seem to dragging their heels despite having been very keen to 'exchange as soon as possible'. The solicitors are two different partners in the same firm, same building so there shouldn't be any reason for them to slow us down (unusually!).

It depends on what kind of HIP they got if it was a cheap one with a personal search then it won't speed things up at all as your solicitor is unlikely to accept the searches. If they went for a 'proper' one with a local authority search then it will save the time it normally takes to get the searches, which varies. Can be 2 - 4 weeks.

thanks CatMandu/Mejon, think from reading it it was a very cheap HIP as it has numerous mistakes (biggest one stating it is a wooden framed house which it is clearly not).

Vino, are you sure about that. Lots of timber framed houses look like brick - have a look in the loft.

done that but it is a European style built and perhaps some of the side bits are timber framed, HIP is just not very clear. it will all come out when the survey is done on our behalf I guess