The nervous wait to exchange....

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A conveyancers is a solicitor and qualified as such.

A solicitor is the general term, a conveyancer is the term for a solicitor who specialises in property.

It’s a bit like accountants, you get generalists who do a bit of everything (usually at small firms on straight forward work) and you get specialists who have an in depth understanding of their specialist area e.g. a full time auditor of listed companies. Most of them have the same core professional qualification.
 
dlockers said:
Conveyancers specialise in that part of law. Solicitors can do a broader spectrum and may not do any house related stuff at all. At least is how I understood it!
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Exactly this.
A solicitor will usually specialize in a particular area of law, be it conveyance, wills and probate, divorce/family law, criminal law etc etc.

It's a very broad church! It's a bit like saying "I work in IT" you could be a network engineer or a website front end developer etc ... There's usually a bit of crossover of skill sets but a specialist in one area isn't nessesarily going to know too much about other specialisms.

Like you wouldn't employ a Java developer to configure and deploy an enterprise level firewall.

Same as you wouldn't want want a wills and probate solicitor representing you In a criminal trial.
 
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Joining this thread as I'm in the process of selling my first home (2-bed end terrace in Hertfordshire) and buying my second (4-bed detached house in Rutland). Accepted a cash offer on my house at asking a week and a half after putting it on the market, and managed to get an offer accepted £10k under the asking price of the house I'm buying :)

Solicitors all lined up, initial forms all completed, surveys booked, so I'm crossing my fingers that nothing pops up and disrupts things. Everyone involved so far seems decent and down-to-earth, so with luck this will be a relatively smooth process!
 
Chased up the solicitor a couple of days ago mentioning that our buyer had proposed a completion date in a couple of weeks time, and would we be ready.

They suddenly pulled their finger out and got moving. Everyone in the chain has agreed on the completion date, now just need to see if the solicitors think it's feasible. Getting closer...
 
NotAGolf said:
Chased up the solicitor a couple of days ago mentioning that our buyer had proposed a completion date in a couple of weeks time, and would we be ready.

They suddenly pulled their finger out and got moving. Everyone in the chain has agreed on the completion date, now just need to see if the solicitors think it's feasible. Getting closer...
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A couple of weeks is plenty of time assuming everything else is done.. searches, prices agreed, etc etc... sometimes solicitors just need a bit of a slap (metaphorically speaking) to get things moving.
 
Has anyone who's bought a new build ever had the builder turn round and say they don't offer the option of running ethernet? Just been told no by builders of development we're waiting to exchange on.

Easier to do when the walls are going up rather than having to make holes in the hole at a later date especially if needing to run it upstairs. Sales office representative told my wife that she's not aware of any builders that offer that service which I know is a lie as I've had it done before.

Guess it could save me a few £££ as they usually charge a fortune for the work anyway but has got me thinking about how easy it'll be to do it myself now.

If I'd have known earlier it was something they didn't offer then I'd have considered waiting for a different development.
 
maj said:
Has anyone who's bought a new build ever had the builder turn round and say they don't offer the option of running ethernet? Just been told no by builders of development we're waiting to exchange on.

Easier to do when the walls are going up rather than having to make holes in the hole at a later date especially if needing to run it upstairs. Sales office representative told my wife that she's not aware of any builders that offer that service which I know is a lie as I've had it done before.

Guess it could save me a few £££ as they usually charge a fortune for the work anyway but has got me thinking about how easy it'll be to do it myself now.

If I'd have known earlier it was something they didn't offer then I'd have considered waiting for a different development.
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I'm sure they would offer to bury CAT6 into the walls, but at what additional cost?

Might be worth doing it yourself if it's a new build, before you decorate it properly etc.

Although that said, I 'only' have on 80mb internet connection (FTTP), and I just use wifi from my router and I get full speed over wi-fi all over my (admittedly small) house, 2 pc's, 2x smart tv's, a laptop, a tablet, and mobile phone... everythings on wifi...your millage may vary.

But I just dont have the need for cabled ethernet connections in my situation.
 
mattyfez said:
I'm sure they would offer to bury CAT6 into the walls, but at what additional cost?

Might be worth doing it yourself if it's a new build, before you decorate it properly etc.

Although that said, I 'only' have on 80mb internet connection (FTTP), and I just use wifi from my router and I get full speed over wi-fi all over my (admittedly small) house, 2 pc's, 2x smart tv's, a laptop, a tablet, and mobile phone... everythings on wifi...your millage may vary.

But I just dont have the need for cabled ethernet connections in my situation.
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With what they were going to charge for a dishwasher and what we're paying for a cupboard instead I'd hate to think what the cost would have been anyway!

I've had a look online at what I'll need to do it myself but will probably seek some advice from the network sub-forum.

I game a lot and have a server and a raspberry pi that host things both internally and externally so having it hard wired is beneficial over WiFi in my circumstances but not everyone will be the same.

To be more on topic had to get in touch with NHBC today regarding the certificate that I either never received or misplaced to respond to buyers solicitor enquiries. Quick phone call and it was emailed to me a few minutes later. Wasn't sure if my solicitor would have done it on my behalf but did it myself just for quickness.

Had the conveyor out last week on behalf on buyer and they were here for about 5 mins. They looked outside, took a photo of kitchen, checked in loft and then off they went. Everything seemed fine speaking to him as he left so presumably all is well and it should be on a 2.5 year old house in fairness.
 
Our process is moving way faster than I anticipated.

House sold after 2 weeks and first round of viewings. We've just reserved the house on the new estate.

I don't know how I feel about all of this moving so quickly!
 
Finally exchanged today! Huzzah!

It all kicked off last week when I someone in the chain proposed a completion down, which kicked our solicitor into gear after 2 and a half months of twiddling their thumbs.

They then realised that there was an issue with with the mortgages offer (2 months after they received it), so there was a mad scramble to get that rectified which took forever as they got confused over what was supposed to be posted/faxed/carrier pigeoned. Finally got everything in place today, only to find out our solicitor had called in sick.

Thankfully the solicitor that stepped in their place has been more helpful and productive in the last 6 hours than our solicitor was over the last 2 and a half months.

Due to to complete next week. Better get packing!
 
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NotAGolf said:
Finally exchanged today! Huzzah!

It all kicked off last week when I someone in the chain proposed a completion down, which kicked our solicitor into gear after 2 and a half months of twiddling their thumbs.

They then realised that there was an issue with with the mortgages offer (2 months after they received it), so there was a mad scramble to get that rectified which took forever as they got confused over what was supposed to be posted/faxed/carrier pigeoned. Finally got everything in place today, only to find out our solicitor had called in sick.

Thankfully the solicitor that stepped in their place has been more helpful and productive in the last 6 hours than our solicitor was over the last 2 and a half months.

Due to to complete next week. Better than get packing!
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Congrats...

That's the most annoying thing..it's a process, a well known and well documented process....

...in any other industry/field you'd expect to be fired for being so lazy if you were so slow at doing basic checks and balances.

Convevance solicitors don't really do anything very complicated, it's litereally a step by step process that a robot could do by folowing a basic flow chart.

I mean co-ordinating a house sale is a total cake walk compared to deploying a software update when multiple vendors and customers are involved...
 
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I am now packing like crazy, I thought I had lots of time but things have changed.

Basically last week we finally got a completion date for the end of the chain, 28th November, so that was good news and would give us lots of time. Until last Friday my solictor emailed me and said that my buyers wanted to comlpete on 31st October. I went back and said I wanted to complete on the 28th November, however a few days later I was told that my buyers mortgage offer expires on 8th November. I asked if they could get an extension and the reply was that they couldn't.

I'm annoyed about this as now I'm going to have to move everything into storage and pay for 2 moves. Luckily I have a place I can stay for 3 weeks. I'm not convinced that the buyer couldn't get an extention, but losing the sale would be much more costly.
 
Nick1881 said:
I am now packing like crazy, I thought I had lots of time but things have changed.

Basically last week we finally got a completion date for the end of the chain, 28th November, so that was good news and would give us lots of time. Until last Friday my solictor emailed me and said that my buyers wanted to comlpete on 31st October. I went back and said I wanted to complete on the 28th November, however a few days later I was told that my buyers mortgage offer expires on 8th November. I asked if they could get an extension and the reply was that they couldn't.

I'm annoyed about this as now I'm going to have to move everything into storage and pay for 2 moves. Luckily I have a place I can stay for 3 weeks. I'm not convinced that the buyer couldn't get an extention, but losing the sale would be much more costly.
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They might have had a cheap deal which in times of rising offers could not be repeated.

Bank base rate unlikely to dip below 4% next year.

Stamp duty news from the budget. In April next year, for first time buyers stamp duty is payable above 300k rather than 425, for others it's payable from 125k instead of 250k and for second homes an additional 5% premium up from 3%.
 
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Are the new 2nd home stamp duty raises a valid excuse for someone to renage on a planned completion w/o loosing deposit -
recent r4 podcast talked about solicitor system for looking at chains - can you see that kind of criteria
 
jpaul said:
Are the new 2nd home stamp duty raises a valid excuse for someone to renage on a planned completion w/o loosing deposit -
recent r4 podcast talked about solicitor system for looking at chains - can you see that kind of criteria
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They are not until next April, I am not an expert particularly on your contract so could not comment sorry.
 
Hagar said:
They are not until next April, I am not an expert particularly on your contract so could not comment sorry.
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Yes April is 6 months away yet.. No reason the solicitors involved in the chain can't all pull thier socks up and get some progress made?

I'm not sure how it would apply if the deals done before April anyway... I'm not sure the increase would be applied retrospectively... But that's a question for your solicitor really...
 
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