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I still refuse to believe it takes that amount of time to do it. It takes that long for them to get around to it, there's a difference. And if that's the case, then can be made to get around to it sooner. You just need to know how to make that happen. I would like to (foolishly) think that conveyancing solicitors might actually want to be good at their job and be able to expedite what should be a quick win for everyone. Instead of just laying back and taking it from all angles, letting the fucked up sausage machine grind along.
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With Hackney it was a backlog. Our conveyancing solicitor is great, very efficient and proper fierce. She's actually the sister of a family friend and we've used her for a few other things since, she's our go to solicitor. If anyone could have made them do it, she could.
She even looked into sending someone physically round to the council (she's based in Warwick), no dice. This is called a 'personal search' and if this becomes an issue which could seriously hold up your purchase you can normally pay extra for one of these to speed things up.
If yours just hasn't chased it that's different, but if the local authority are saying 'no it will be this long even if you do a personal search' you won't be able to force them to, outside of taking legal action, getting your local councillor to (successfully) take action or similar.
You're preaching to the converted on not believing it can possibly actually take that long though.
Fox
If you're talking about local authority searches there is often nothing you can do to compel them to go any faster. When we bought our flat Hackney had a backlog and they were taking about a month (summer 2012, they were blaming the Olympics, lol).
It was the only thing holding our purchase up but there was no way to make them go any faster so we got our flat a month later.
All depends on the local authority of course, they should take about five days.