Why Are Solicitors So SLOW?! Top Tips to speed up conveyancing Solicitor Bushra Mohammed advice

Packed with top tips to speed up your legal work and reduce or avoid delays. We are once again joined by Bushra for some more insider tips from a solicitor. Bushra will be answering all of your question's, including the one everyone wants to know, "Why are solicitors so SLOW?" She also gives us some great tips, and an interesting insight into how she goes about her business.

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[Tridhos]

One of the biggest problems is that we use two solicitors, one for each party. This isn't a procedure where you need to obtain opposite outcomes but to transfer a property from one party to another. In France one legal beagle is able to act for both parties.Nearing an exchange I get a call from the agent telling me my solicitor hasn't sent some documents to the other solicitor. I speak to my solicitor and he tells me that the other solicitor hasn't received the signed contract from his client. This backwards and forwards just isn't necessary. Then there are the searches, "waiting for searches to come back", BS. I checked and it turns out my LA was responding to searches with 9 working days. I bought my first property over 40 years ago and in those days I required a mortgage. I am now purchasing what will probably be my last property cash, no chain involved and yet it has taken just as long as it did 40 years ago. Electronic mail, on line land registry vastly quicker searches have not made the slightest difference to the time taken to complete the process.

[lavisionhomme]

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[lordcustard-smythe-smith]

My observations are that there are plenty of other areas that need fixing in property transactions in England.
1) No one should be able to put in an offer without at least some money being at risk. Too many idiots put in offers only to change their mind later without good reason. Especially first time buyers.
2) RICS surveys should come with a health warning that the surveyor will find every possible defect and try to disclaim liability by demanding some expert come in and prove the house won't self destruct. This freaks out buyers unnecessarily. They should have a B.S. rating attached to their 'advice', especially older properties where some surveyors have absolutely no idea what they are on about. Where surveyors have made mistakes on valuations there should be a mechanism where their findings to lenders can be challenged.
3) Local authorities that can't complete searches in 10 days should be fined repeatedly until they employ enough staff to get the job done on time. Ideally this money should come from local councillors wallets !

[faa]

One of the main issues is that property solicitors are paid so poorly in comparison to other solicitors and others in the property industry although they carry the most risk. For example solicitors spend a lot more time on a single transaction than the estate agent yet EAs with no required qualifications or regulations make multiples of what the sol charges. So in the end property transactions are passed to legal execs who then still need to be closely supervised. Really poor pay for sols.

[lasef]

Very insightful. When Bushra listed it all out, it's a complicated process with so many moving parts.

[christophorosfuorkis]

need to be watched again and once again. Thank you ;)

[kuppenbender]

Half an hour of whining, patronising, mealy-mouthed excuses and irrelevance.

Seriously, how long does it take to verify an identity from a certified passport? You look at the names to see if they’re spelled the same, and possibly (but actually ‘never’) call the certifier to ask if they are who they say they are. Which doesn’t actually prove anything anyway. Chancel repair should be abolished, but again, how long does it take to check a postcode to find a particular parish? Flood search etc… how long does it take to send off a form? Why isn’t it an email?

The whole system is set up to perpetuate an unnecessary profession for 99% of transactions.

[simoncook]

I bought a house in Thailand took 5 days
I'm selling my house in UK has already been 6 weeks no chain and nothing happening

[RebornRockerVids]

My solicitor kept blaming the seller's solicitor for the delay in my property purchase, so in the end I contacted the seller's solicitor myself and he literally called her a "lying bitch" and said that he had been ready to complete for over a month.
I gave my solicitor 24hrs to complete or she would be fired and reported to the ombudsman and low and behold, we completed the very next day.

[biggestgerbil]

So, let's ask a solicitor why they take so long. 32mins of excuses and hard thinking to find an excuse. I have cash, there is no chain, four weeks now and nothing has happened. Not even asked for my disbursment money. Not answering my e-mails, not returning my phone calls. They are a large local outfit. I call BS on the whole system.

[nathanboult]

Excuses, excuses.

The truth is, no one is proffessional anymore. No one is organised or concientious.

I travel a lot in my job and see lots of different proffessions. Peoples attitudes suck nowerdays. I can only presume the solicitor field is the same.

[wld-ph]

There´s a Standard Conveyancing Contract. Most of this is templated in 90% of cases. Good luck with 10% that might require some actual work / thinking - Been trying to sell my house to HS2 for over 5 years. Most of the work is being done by inexperienced juniors, and then palmed off at high prices, as if all done by high end staff It´s all a scam IMHO. Opposing side Conveyancer... Contract to Negotiate for IGNORED Development value... really, ´cos that MEANS NOTHING in the (real) enforceable contract world.

[troychipper]

I'll tell you one thing solicitors are never short of, and supply instantly- excuses. Another is blame for someone else. What a shower of lazy has-beens, who know no other pace than snail's pace.