Land purchase, buyer and seller using the same solicitor

[Ivor Windybottom]

Doing things for you is kind of acting for you. How did you get on with registering the sale with the land registry, in my experience they only deal with people who have their expensive software as it all electronic now,

This was about 4 years ago. Don't know what's changed in the meantime, I think I filled in a PDF on the PC, printed it, signed and posted it off. Not totally sure, there were definitely postage stamps involved though!

Also the seller's solicitor took our ID documents by post, so they did the anti-money laundering checks on us. Normally this would be done by our solicitor.

 

[blup]

Sorry but that is wrong.

Fair enough, it was more about being helpful. The solicitor I dealt with directly wouldn’t give me the steam of his ****, so Windy was fortunate .

 

[motorbiking]

It's ok for one side to draft everything - bill/contract of sales, transfer documents etc and for both parties to pay for that work. But he can only ever represent one party. If there is nothing complex in the contract then the risk is small, but in more complex matters a good lawyer will be able to make less reasonable contracts seem reasonable or hide conflicting schedules with precedent clauses. It's always good to have a contract of sale to fall back on.

Nowadays they charge for the KYC/AML checks.

 

[Ihavenojob]

Trying to get a solicitor to confirm my ID is a bit troublesome, so we have decided to visit their solicitor in person with ID, may even get things going quicker. Not sure how he'll (or she'll) react when I whack 25 large on the table in readies for the purchase.

 

[Mottie]

Trying to get a solicitor to confirm my ID is a bit troublesome, so we have decided to visit their solicitor in person with ID, may even get things going quicker. Not sure how he'll (or she'll) react when I whack 25 large on the table in readies for the purchase.

When my sister and I engaged a solicitor for the sale of our mums house in December last year, the solicitor sent us a link that we had to upload our passports, bank statements, a selfie and stuff like that to. When we used the same solicitor less than a year ago Mrs Mottie and I had to go up there with the same stuff so I’m assuming a new system is probably being used?

 

[MNW67]

When my sister and I engaged a solicitor for the sale of our mums house in December last year, the solicitor sent us a link that we had to upload our passports, bank statements, a selfie and stuff like that to. When we used the same solicitor less than a year ago Mrs Mottie and I had to go up there with the same stuff so I’m assuming a new system is probably being used?

Probably Credas.

 

[Ivor Windybottom]

Trying to get a solicitor to confirm my ID is a bit troublesome, so we have decided to visit their solicitor in person with ID, may even get things going quicker. Not sure how he'll (or she'll) react when I whack 25 large on the table in readies for the purchase.

I got my ID checked by the seller's solicitor.

The land I bought was £2000. So I wasn't too worried about technicalities. For £25k you should get your own solicitor.

If it's farmland then there are more things to check, e.g. whether govt payments have been taken or are being retained. Also wayleaves for cables, public or private rights of way etc.

The bit of the field we bought has inherited the right of way a neighbour has through the field even though his allowed route isn't near our bit. Perhaps if we'd had a solicitor this would have been removed as it was irrelevant, but I don't care.

 

[SimonH2]

I've come across the issue twice - when my late mother downsized, and now when we are selling her bungalow. In both cases, the two sides have chosen the same solicitor.
The solution has been to assign staff at different offices to the two parties - and to direct that all the files be clearly marked on the covers to avoid accidental viewing by the wrong staff.