Our tale of woe up to now, we are in a 2 bed terraced partitioned into 3 bedrooms. We have a cash buyer from a housing association for our house, the house we want to buy is a 3 bedroom semi about 1/2 a mile away. The vendor has been granted a certificate of probate - split is 5 ways between siblings. Our conveyancing solicitor is local, vendors is a large national one who work on behalf of multiple online estate agents and other agents.
21st May - AIP
4th June - Valuation
9th June - Listed with Estate Agent
25th June - Offer received and (cash) buyers funds validated, offer accepted
27th June - Made offer on a property we liked
28th June - Vendor declined offer
29th June - Appointed local solicitor for sale of our property
5th July - All forms filled in, ID checks etc done and emailed to our solicitor
6th July - Vendor of house first offer refused on called back, current person offering messing about, they dropped their offer. We made an offer instead higher, informed no chain below us - cash buyer on our house.
7th July - Offer officially accepted
7th July - Assessed Mortgages with Broker
8th July - Broker applied for chosen Mortgage
8th July - Appointed local solicitor for purchase of next property (same one we are selling our house with, to speed things up)
13th July - Property to be purchased removed from market
19th July - Surveyor visit for next property (no major issues)
22nd July - Mortgage Application Approved
23rd July - Chased vendor, vendor delays with estate agents online logins
28th July - Our solicitor messaged, not had contract pack from vendors solicitor
28th July - Chased vendor, filling out forms and ID checks
6th August - Vendor sent probate certificate to their solicitor
10th August - Our solicitor messaged, she has had no contact at all from vendors solicitor. Vendors estate agent replied probate certificate received.
16th August - Emailed vendors estate agent, no response.
17th August - Emailed our solicitor, she has had no contact at all from vendors solicitor.
17th August - Called vendors estate agent - advised system showing only received example probate certificate, not full signed for certificate
We were hoping for a quick sale and before the end of September due to the stamp duty threshold reducing. The vendor and vendors solicitor seem to be wasting everyone's time and money