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My mum is by herself & selling her house to move near us.
The Estate agent has signed her up to countrywide conveyancing (seems they are all linked in these days) my wife (corporate lawyer ) wants her to not use them and says the have a dreadful reputation.
Any experience?
When I bought this place they were woeful I mean so bad I told them to get to **** and started my.mortgage again with another company and nearly lost the house -although had I stuck with them I would have lost the house.
Equally a buddy wanted an HSBC mortgage as they were cheapest . He too abandoned the process after having to deal with countrywide and stayed with his current provider
I would rather shit razors than buy a house where anyone in the chain was using countrywide.
If time isn't an issue then you might fare ok
I used to work for countrywide... the mortgages were ok...sometimes some tidy deals but everything else was massively overpriced especially life and contents insurance.. look elsewhere I'd suggest
Don't forget the estate agent will have signed her up with them because of the commission they pay and not because they're good...
It's usually best almost to pick anyone other than the firm the estate agents are being paid to sign you up to isn't it?
Countrywide did the valuation for our re-mortgage during building works.
Internal load baring walls knocked down and temporary structural supports in place equals ‘subsidence’ and not fit for mortgage. FFS. CW stood firm and HSBC denied the mortgage. Luckily the
Muppet surveyor also counted 3 beds when there are 5. It was only because of this HSBC eventually agreed that CW were shite and they would pay for another survey.
Absolutely awful....it'd be easier and quicker to train as a conveyancer yourself. There's no way that they can be as inept as the service that they provide would suggest, so there must be some other reasons as to why they're so bad.
Completely undervalued the house we have bought by 50% ... from looking at it from google maps which doesn’t show most of it
We complained and mortgage co instructed someone else
my wife (corporate lawyer ) wants her to not use them and says the have a dreadful reputation.
That'd be enough for me.
They managed to **** up transfer of the funds when moving into our current house. We had 5 hrs of stress with some very grumpy removals guys on a Friday ( never move on a friday) whilst I pulled some favours being in finance to ensure we didn't end up in a hotel over the weekend. Absolutely unbelievable. Normally we had always used family solicitors but they were expensive and in my own words its only conveyancing how difficult can it be?
Never ever ever use them. They are total incompetence.
Similar tale of woe here from about 10 years ago. The worst thing, despite all the delays and lies was the fact that we had to send them our passports, birth certs and some other docs for money laundering. They delayed return by 3 months and eventually sent them to my neighbours by adding 6 to my house no. If the neighbours were not good friends then who knows what would have happened.
Please avoid.
Extremely variable, one pretty good, one “ok” and one pretty awful. Though had variable performance from other conveyancers as well.
Seems that it is totally dependant on the individuals working on your “case”, regardless of the company/firm.
Even though it is you paying them (I actually asked Countrywide once to confirm this as I seemed to be doing all the work) you will have to keep on at whoever is doing it them to keep things progressing as you have more to lose than they do.
Whilst I wouldn’t recommend Countrywide, don’t assume the alternatives will be any better.
I'm currently using Oliver & Co for conveyancing, for the second time. Been impressed both times.
Not Countrywide but I got stung by Your Conveyancer when transferring to First Direct. Absolutely abysmal and ended up taking so long our mortgage deal expired, pretty sure that ended with me screaming down the phone at someone in a hospice car park (was having a really good day). From memory we started the move in February and didn't actually get it signed and completed until August, maybe September.
Not used for conveying but I did for a mortgage. Absolutely crap. Gave the same information 3 times.
Even though it is you paying them (I actually asked Countrywide once to confirm this as I seemed to be doing all the work) you will have to keep on at whoever is doing it them to keep things progressing as you have more to lose than they do.
This isn't true if you have a competent conveyancer. The trouble is finding one as it's hardly the most exciting or well paid area of law. Ryan Property Law did a perfectly competent job for me a couple of years ago, and a college used them shortly afterwards and said similar.
Avoid all of the “call centre” conveyancers. Use a local solicitor where you can actually speak to the person doing the work. It’s worth paying a couple of hundred quid extra.