On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 10:38:21PM +0100, Ben Laurie wrote: > Actually, the way house buying works (generally) in the UK is that you > deposit your money with _your_ solicitor, who promises the seller's > solicitor that they have it, contracts are exchanged (typically by fax!) > and then they settle at their convenience. Scarily insecure, > technically.
Yes but in my case I acted as my own solicitor because I have this strange dislike of parting order 500 - 1000 GBP to fill in a few boiler-plate forms and make a few checks with government record departments. I've done 3 of them so far, the other parties solicitors don't like it, but then they don't have to. Adam
