Raising enquiries

🧐 Legal Enquiries Raised - Solicitor turns Detective

✅What this milestone means

After reviewing the draft contract, title documents and searches, your conveyancer has sent a list oflegal enquiriesto the seller’s solicitor. These are clarifying questions about anything that isn’t crystal-clear or could expose you (or your lender) to risk.

🔑Why enquiries matter for buyers

🔍Risk filter– picks up boundary issues, planning breaches, service-charge disputes, missing guarantees, and more.

⚖️Mortgage security– lenders won’t release funds until every enquiry is satisfied.

⏱️Timeline control– the sooner questions go out, the sooner answers come back, keeping exchange on schedule.

🛠️What’s happening behind the scenes

•Your Conveyancerdrafts enquiries on covenants, alterations, building-reg sign-offs, fixtures, search anomalies, etc.

•Seller’s Solicitornow gathers documents, obtains indemnity quotes, or asks their client for clarification.

•Open Mooveshows this milestone as “raised” and logs each enquiry so you can watch them turn green as answers arrive.

📌Your action list right now

1.Review the enquiry listsent over by your solicitor and make sure you request any additional queries you want answering.

2.Flag priorities— highlight any deal-breakers (e.g. unanswered planning question) so your conveyancer can chase harder.

3.Stay responsive— if your solicitor needs you to approve an indemnity policy or confirm fixture details, reply within 24 hours.

⏭️What happens next

✔️Legal enquiries answered– seller’s side provides docs or indemnities; your solicitor signs them off.

✔️Mortgage offer issued– once enquiries and valuation align, the lender releases the formal offer.

✔️Report on Title & exchange– with every answer satisfied, you’ll sign your report, transfer deposit funds and set an exchange date.

💡Pro tip:Some enquiries can only be solved with anindemnity policy(e.g. missing building-reg certificate). These one-off insurance policies are usually quicker and cheaper than reopening council files.

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