Hi,
On our closing date our sollicitor informed us that the Land registry office did not have a death certificate of the house we are buying, so it is still on two names and only one seller. When signing the contracts I spotted this, and asked for the death cert. Our sollicitor said that it was upstairs and he believed the man was dead. Now it turns out that the death certificate is only an onofficial copy, and in Chinese....And therefore we would have a delay of 6-8 weeks. I called back with more questions, and was told by a partner that it could even take a year, although the vendor is eager to sell and will be in Ireland soon. I gave my notice to my landlord and he needs the house, so now I really don't know what to do.
Was anyone ever in similar circumstances, will it take really that long, and am I right that our sollicitor should have spotted this earlier? How could he believe that the death cert was fine when he does not have any knowledge of Chinese?
On our closing date our sollicitor informed us that the Land registry office did not have a death certificate of the house we are buying, so it is still on two names and only one seller. When signing the contracts I spotted this, and asked for the death cert. Our sollicitor said that it was upstairs and he believed the man was dead. Now it turns out that the death certificate is only an onofficial copy, and in Chinese....And therefore we would have a delay of 6-8 weeks. I called back with more questions, and was told by a partner that it could even take a year, although the vendor is eager to sell and will be in Ireland soon. I gave my notice to my landlord and he needs the house, so now I really don't know what to do.
Was anyone ever in similar circumstances, will it take really that long, and am I right that our sollicitor should have spotted this earlier? How could he believe that the death cert was fine when he does not have any knowledge of Chinese?