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I'm in the process of buying a flat at the moment and the solicitors are taking their time, I can't tell if that is just how it is or if it's their fault to be honest. The updates we get from them sounds like they are following up enquiries from the seller's solicitors but who knows. We were hoping to complete soon but looks like it might be another month or two before that happens.
I think for some solicitors, conveyancer is low priority as there isn't much money involved and there is no pressure to get it done quickly, which is why it can drag on.
We've just recently bought a house and were on pretty good terms with the people we bought from so we got more updates direct from them than from our solicitors. Literally any time our solicitor said they were chasing or following something up from the other end, their solicitor would be saying "no, no, we sent that across weeks ago" and vice versa. I'm pretty sure it's just standard practice to always blame the other side and they're all in on it, because there's no way for anyone to prove the hearsay.
Odds are the whole thing could be done and dusted inside a week but they stretch it out as long as possible so that they can charge a fortune.