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Selling a shared ownership flat meant dealing with an incompetent housing association, compounded by various EWS related issues that ultimately meant the buyer had to start from scratch with a different lender. Then our solicitor seemed to get greedy with all the stamp duty holiday demand and took on more clients than they could handle effectively. And I think the same for the seller's solicitor. So enquiries were going unanswered for weeks or months, with no one chasing (apart from me). Light at the end of the tunnel now... I hope.
jackincaves-
I have a friend buying a shared ownership flat - she has had to use the housing association recommended (well, enforced) solicitors and they are utterly shit. So I can understand that plus EWS = no fun.
It does seem like a lot of solicitors have taken on more than they can chew but to be fair I don't think it's much fun being a conveyancing solicitor at the moment.
https://www.todaysconveyancer.co.uk/main-news/conveyancers-considering-leaving-the-profession-due-to-mental-health/
Fox
Sounds painful. Any reasons for it being so long?