Hi there,
I'm just wondering if anyone has ever encountered this before. Myself and my partner bought a new apartment last year and got the keys in September. There was a lot of visiting the solicitor signing documents etc so as far as I knew all was in order. We are now, 9 months later, upgrading to a 3 bed semi but going through a different solicitor. Our new solicitor contacted the bank to release our title deeds but was told they were never received. We got on to the old solicitor to see what the problem was and he said that he had not sent them back as they had not been signed by us, and was a bit rude about it. He has never requested us to sign them in the past nine months. Would this be normal code of conduct? We are eager to get contracts signed and things moving and as you can imagine this is holding things up considerably as I cannot get the time off work with very little notice to travel to this solicitor.
Quite annoyed at the moment!
I'm just wondering if anyone has ever encountered this before. Myself and my partner bought a new apartment last year and got the keys in September. There was a lot of visiting the solicitor signing documents etc so as far as I knew all was in order. We are now, 9 months later, upgrading to a 3 bed semi but going through a different solicitor. Our new solicitor contacted the bank to release our title deeds but was told they were never received. We got on to the old solicitor to see what the problem was and he said that he had not sent them back as they had not been signed by us, and was a bit rude about it. He has never requested us to sign them in the past nine months. Would this be normal code of conduct? We are eager to get contracts signed and things moving and as you can imagine this is holding things up considerably as I cannot get the time off work with very little notice to travel to this solicitor.
Quite annoyed at the moment!