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Oof. Was it waiting for the registry once the papers had been filed?
We're already war gaming 'what if we don't make March' scenarios. Our buyer's offer is conditional on completion by 31 March. We know she really wants it, but we'd expect her to drop her offer by the stamp duty amount if we don't make it in time.
The probate delay would be on the vendor, so we'd be looking for a reduction in turn. In theory, we could sell our place by the 31st, move out somewhere temporary then complete on new place whenever without losing any money, other than the cost of somewhere temporary to stay/storage.
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Speaking of potentially missing the stamp duty deadline, our sale and purchase was all going suspiciously smoothly until this week. However, the place we're buying is probate and we got this update from the vendor's probate solicitor via their agent:
Our solicitor is 'concerned'. So am I. Anyone with probate experience got any thoughts? It was meant to take eight weeks, which would be about now, but apparently the Registries have a huge backlog because Covid (in more ways than one, a lot more people have died recently).
I think @Señor_Bear your place was probate and you had big delays right? I'm worried now I've asked I'm going to hear loads of horror stories :/