Oh!! Luckygirl - I have written previously that most of the problems relating to house sales/purchase seem to lie at the feet of solicitors, who charge a fortune, - and seem to expect us to do all the work for them!!!
In the long distant past - we would just send our conveyancing solicitor the details so where we were selling, and where we were buying, and then rely on them just to advice us, if any real problems came up, but normally our next contact with them would be signing the forms.
Not that way now, they just seem to send us all countless reams of paper with us having to find answers to all their questions,.
Mine, whom I knew reasonably well - actually spent a long time on the 'phone with me advising me NOT to purchase this flat as (he told me), there was no land registry rights to the garage which went with it. Turned out, there was - but he had failed to read through the several sheets of Land Registeries for this block of flat s- my Solicitor had assumed that this would be listed in flat number order - and could not see it listed on Page 1. Turned out it was listed in order in which the flats had originally (back in mid-80 's) sold, and this flat and garage were listed on Page 4!!!!!
I was fortunate in that I was able to hand all the paperwork to one of my legalpara qualified children, who did what the Solicitor did not do - READ ALL THE PAPERWORK WTH CARE. Sounds unbelievable as this was a very large firm of solicitors, so reading through such documents ts would have normally been handed on to one of the clerks there.
Luckygirl it is still nine weeks before end of March - so hopefully, even at the snail slow pace your solicitor is working you should have a good chance of getting completion before that.
