Evening
Just wondered whether any of you legal bods know whether when purchasing a house from a company it is absolutely necessary to perform a company search if the transaction is not an arms length agreement e.g. where you have, in our case, a family farm and one of the director's sons buys a property from the farm.
The search fee cam to approx £65 if that helps identify what sort of search it was......?
Long story short our solicitor was a complete twunt when we bought a property from the family company in 2005 - transaction had to be done by 30th June to get it in by the financial year end and he nearly ballsed it up several times - almost deliberately, and despite written instructions to the contrary delayed things for petty reasons - even threatening not to complete on the final day over an item which he had already been told was in hand - we are quibbling the bill as I know he was on holiday for the majority of the time leading up to the transaction taking place and the day before completion the vendors solicitor (in the same firm) had to telephone me and ask what had been done and to ask for my instructions to carry out work to ensure that the sale took place in time.......
Any thoughts would be much appreciated.
TIA
Lady M
