To: Matthew Pennycook, Minister of State (Housing and Planning)
Improve the house purchasing process
Vendors should be required to prepare via a solicitor a house sale pack, ensuring that when the house is put on the market, the person who puts an offer on the property is protected and does not have to spend thousands of pounds to discover that there is an issue and the sale process fails. We need a system more in line with the Scottish model.
Why is this important?
We have moved several times and felt the process was archaic and stressful. It can and should be a streamlined process that protects the buyers and ensures purchasing a house can occur over a shorter period - not take months and months, when potentially the buyers can lose thousands of pounds and have to start all over again. The vendor should prepare via a solicitor and Estate Agent a house sale pack, which the buyers solicitors would review to ensure all is inorder, then the sale would be agreed - simple. It works in Scotland.
Please sign this petition to start a review into the current process that is inadequate, does not protect potential buyers and results in a lengthy, stressful procedure to purchase a house.
Please sign this petition to start a review into the current process that is inadequate, does not protect potential buyers and results in a lengthy, stressful procedure to purchase a house.
How it will be delivered
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