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Once again, no focus on WHY deals take so long…….the reason - the quality of the conveyancer allowed to touch the legal work!

1. confirming the length of lease and service charge is already built into estate agent particulars (or it should be, and that is easy to make that law)
2. the average conveyancing process is 19 weeks. Then look at the quality of who the Government are allowing to be a conveyancer!!!
3. "Prior pointed out that when someone is buying a property, 'you go through the conveyancing process, you buy the house, you receive a perfect pack of information that describes the property at that moment - and you throw that away. We think that's quite wasteful. Some of [the information] does not change'."................at last! The Pack!!!!!! The Pack is the bundle of accumulated documents which the buying conveyancer has at the end of his involvement, which he posts to his client to keep safe.....BUT....how many selling lawyers fail to even secure that Pack when they sell, and instead say the most ignorant comment 'deeds have dematerialised'. Get the Pack!!!!!
4. "...if conveyancers were running a restaurant, they would spend more time gathering the ingredients than preparing the meal. "….on the contrary more often than not selling lawyers do not care, they just throw out anything to the buyer (some even just force contract packs on sellers by email, not even preparing anything at all apart from filling in names into a standard contract) and make their lawyer do all the work. The quality of selling packs is worse than ever.

Upfront information. Back to HIPs then, all you are missing is the searches! Documents fine, but sellers answering standard questions, like in the Property Information Form….that makes the answers contractual, or certainly puts a buyer on notice (and possibly invalidates legal indemnity insurance for revealed insured risks) about more things than the seller was under any obligation to reveal as who will ensure the sellers on completing the form/checking their answers…are they saying too much, do they even need to say that etc etc? Needs a lawyer to produce it…but then you really are back to HIPs ….where they were hijacked by non-lawyers, who of course did not advise on answers, who used crappy personal searches like now, and who still missed out documents, and with no enforcement for breaches.

All unnecessary…instead just focus on the quality of the human conveyancer allowed to do the legal work in the first place.