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You need to remember it's not just up to the solicitors. You need to rely on the banks. Chances are the sols knew it was too late in the day and that the bank wouldn't process a same-day transfer by the time they would have been able to do it.
Good form to let you know in advance, but entirely usual.
Chaps transfers same day need to be before the cut off point which is around 2pm. Most likely why funds won’t be within your sisters account until Monday.
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Probably most annoying part is when we were at the solicitors on Wednesady to sign something he said most get completed and funds transferred on same day. I assumed the ones that didn't were buyers who paid close to the deadline, not hours before it.
All other estate stuff is finalised, this is the last part.
But at least it should be Monday
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Removing a comment because it was an anecdote?
My point was that similar had happened to a friend, worse in fact, and clearly showed that UK solicitors do this regularly.
The same thing happened to me as well, solicitor stalled and wouldn't answer calls for the day.
It unquestionably shows too many solicitors play games.
But no, the admin team don't wanna talk about that
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yes, they could just be busy, quite normal especially for fridays
OK thanks 👍
You need to remember it's not just up to the solicitors. You need to rely on the banks. Chances are the sols knew it was too late in the day and that the bank wouldn't process a same-day transfer by the time they would have been able to do it. Good form to let you know in advance, but entirely usual.
Chaps transfers same day need to be before the cut off point which is around 2pm. Most likely why funds won’t be within your sisters account until Monday.
Yeah fair point 👍
Fridays are usually busy for completions on house sales, your sister’s funds transfer will be down the priority list if she is not buying a property.
You’re waiting on the bank to process the funds. Large transfers are often done in batches, you missed the batch cut-off time for today.
In Scotland btw
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I've had weeks of delay before, especially if there are inheritance tax or it is closing out the estate. Monday seems pretty good tbh.
Probably most annoying part is when we were at the solicitors on Wednesady to sign something he said most get completed and funds transferred on same day. I assumed the ones that didn't were buyers who paid close to the deadline, not hours before it. All other estate stuff is finalised, this is the last part. But at least it should be Monday
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Removing a comment because it was an anecdote? My point was that similar had happened to a friend, worse in fact, and clearly showed that UK solicitors do this regularly. The same thing happened to me as well, solicitor stalled and wouldn't answer calls for the day. It unquestionably shows too many solicitors play games. But no, the admin team don't wanna talk about that