Owning your own home

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Fox

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:

We have chased up the Probate Registry again, who have said that they have all of the documents that they need, but that they are currently dealing with applications received on or before 19th October. We sent our application mid-November I believe.

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 :/

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Brommers in reply to @Fox

Last I heard the Principal Registry had a backlog of about 4 months. I doubt the situation has improved since then. It was pretty dire pre-Covid, simply due to inadequate funding and staffing levels.

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Fox in reply to @Brommers

Hmmm. Thanks. It's not looking good is it?

Oh well. Quite likely we'll go and live outside of London for a bit (probably Scottish Borders) so at least we'd be able to get some good riding in.

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