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pifko-
Good question, it's probably worth asking but as ours is probate our solicitor has already made clear that there's no way the transaction can go through without evidence of probate. I suspect there are also other things the seller's solicitor just has to do - I imagine indemnity insurance will only take you so far but IANAL.
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Other people's conveyancing solicitors... FFS.
Our buyer's solicitors are really on it but our vendor's haven't managed to get the grant of probate to our solicitors yet despite it being granted two and a half weeks ago. They haven't answered our solicitor's enquiries yet either and some go all the way back to December.
Our solicitor suggested being put into an email chain with their agent and she's doing a good job of going into battle, but we need the vendor's to put pressure on their solicitor.
If we don't meet the stamp duty deadline we're going to lose £15k because of their crap solicitors and obviously I don't see why we should pick that up, so if things don't get better in a few days I will be asking the agent to relay that thought to the vendor.
Is there anything else we can do?