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holy shit, our solicitor seems to be actively sabotaging our purchase.
Our solicitor first informed our lender that he was going to hold £750 back on the purchase via an allowance so we could complete some work, keeping the purchase and mortgage the same amount.
Ring lender to check for an update as our solicitor claims he's heard nothing "we emailed him a week ago, no you cant do that legally everything has to tally up"
"you can either adjust the purchase price (will take 3 weeks, putting us past stamp duty) or just continue with the purchase anyway, all good to go!" (no £750 for us). We say we'll go with that.
Our solicitor then emails today to say we can only exchange once work is complete and lender is happy with work. I have no idea what communication he is having with the lender but fucking hell, what is he doing.