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Yes, that's normal.
Often it can take weeks to get a surveyor round, especially with tougher mortgage lending, so usual practice is to pay a solicitor to start straight away so the mortgage application and conveyance run concurrently.
It's just as likely you'll want to back out due to searches as survey so there is no logic in doing one before the other.
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They're your solicitor, they should be taking instructions from you. I assume the solicitor didn't act on anything the estate agent said other than to come to you. I'd be concerned if that was otherwise.
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It's taken me just under a week from having an offer accepted to getting the survey booked in on a property - various small holdups (i.e. First Direct having to post everything to me and me read it before committing). I find out in the meantime that the estate agent has been ringing up my solicitor, trying to get him to initiate searches on a property that hasn't even been surveyed yet, and then asking me to pay him the fee for the searches.
Is this normal?