Frustration in the delay after buying a property
I recently bought a property after short search, hurray!! I was even lucky enough to get few grand of the asking price if I moved the move-in date forward a couple of months and I was also lucky to sell almost instantly..so far so good. But was then frustrated by the delay in moving in due to delays with lawyers and land registry searches and so on. I find it very frustrating that you still need to wait for a couple of months for your lawyers to deal with the land registry searching the title deeds and passing paper back and forward.
Does this always need to be the case when buying a property? and if so why, all the land registry need to do is check their files and confirm you own the property so why 2 months? Could there be an express service where you could pay £200 and half this time? It seems ridiculous when buying a property for both parties to agree on everything and be keen to move in asap and still have to wait on the land registry for 2 to 4 months…
If you can organise a mortgage and insurance in a couple of days why does it take forever for the land registry to check a file and confirm who owns a house?
I suppose that many people have wondered this over the years when buying a property
If anyone has any comments please let me know why this takes so long….