I am putting my house on the market and had an estate agent around this morning. He seemed shocked when I said I hadn't been in contact with a solicitor with regard to getting the deeds released as that could take a couple of weeks. I thought I was well away from that stage yet as the house isn't even offically on the market so no bank is going to release deeds. Is it just a case of informing the bank what I am planning or am I missing something? I was going to contact a solicitor shortly with regard to opening a file but I wasn't aware there was an urgency about it.