This review is for a different branch.
If you are buying with another person, stress the importance of both parties consenting. Due to only one party being emailed consectively for 3 weeks, there was a 3 week delay (5 week delay if you include christmas).
Our deadline in the chain was the 20th December. There was no emphasis to meet this deadline. We completed on the 3rd February.
The planned completion date was the 31st January, however the banks crashed on completion day. Understandably this is out of the solicitors control, however the lack of compassion and duty of care was zero. We raised our concern that we would be homeless across the weekend at 2pm. We were informed that we could do a legal agreement to get the keys to the property and complete on the Monday, when the banks issues resolved.
At 15:45 our solicitor asked us where we would be staying if the legal agreement did not happen. We told her in a car with 2 cats, and we had concerns with where we would put our belongings from the removal vans, as they could not extend the van hire time. This was the last time we spoke with our solicitor.
We decided to speak with the estate agent. Luckily he took pity on us and gave us the keys because our sellers had vacated the property. Our sellers solicitor then ‘ told off’ the estate agent because no legal agreement was in place from our solicitor. Our sellers’ solicitor said that she was ‘disgusted at how we had been treated.’ She told the estate agent that she was unable to contact our solicitors because they had gone home.
On monday we receive an email to say that we had completed. No acknoweledgemet to our homeless situation, no explaination for why the legal agreement did not happen and no congratualations!
To say that we are disgusted with the lack of commitment,compassion and duty of care is an understatement.
The firm was reccomended to us. Make sure you choose your solicitors wisely within this firm.