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 of legal enquiries to 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 Conveyancer drafts enquiries on covenants, alterations, building-reg sign-offs, fixtures, search anomalies, etc.

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

• Open Moove shows 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 list sent 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 an indemnity policy (e.g. missing building-reg certificate). These one-off insurance policies are usually quicker and cheaper than reopening council files.

Questions about a specific enquiry or indemnity? Ping MeredithAI in your Moove Room - online 24 / 7 to translate legal jargon into plain English and keep your move Mooving.