@jtruk nice! and yeah, it's not the easiest thing.

if your mortgage broker recommends a solicitors to you, I highly recommend doing a thorough review search on them first. I made that mistake because the broker made it sound like it was going to be easier 'cos they could chase them up instead of needing me to do it (such a big hook for my ADHD ass) but they were horrendous and I spent days calling and calling. 2 years later I still don't have most of the paperwork.

@jtruk property solicitors are always bad but these jokers were just next-level useless. at one point I had to ask if the guy they assigned still worked there because I had tried calling and emailing him every other day for a month with no reply. (in the end I had to shame his lazy ass by CC'ing in all their company-wide inboxes before he finally got back in touch)

so yeah, learn from my mistake there, sometimes the easy route is the hard route, so check first! :P