• Do I Sign An ST1 Form Post Completion?

    By Guest on 12th Jan 2019

    Hi I need help. We completed and moved 6 months ago. During the selling process we discovered that a part of our front garden which we believed was ours was in fact unregistered. The buyer and solicitors were aware of this and we had to drop the price by a few thousand as buyer threatened to walk. We made lots of concessions (he's a landlord) and basically he wanted everything for nothing! We werent happy about it but agreed. Now, months later, i get a letter from our conveyancer saying that the buyers lawyer wants us to sign an ST1 form to agree that we used the land in question without objection. As I havent dealt with this matter straight away, the buyers lawyers have become very bullish saying that they will take it further as misdescription, even though the buyer decreased his offer to take into account the land was unregistered. What do i do? I really dont want to deal with this person and dont see why i should sign the form to make his life easier if he is in process of buying the land. Apparently it was never agreed that this would be signed and my solicitor is saying they cant help as they deal only with conveyancing and not litigation. Also my online solicitor was absolutely useless. The extra money he got from us should be adequate for him to deal with himself

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    By Guest on 13/01/2019

    The buyers solicitor messed up as they should have got the statutory declaration from yourselves prior to completion as now they can’t register that piece of land without it! That’s why they are being bullish as they will now be under pressure from the buyer by also the buyers lender (assuming he took a Mortgage).

    Fact is you can tell them to get lost if there was no prior agreement to provide this BUT they will get even more bullish and threaten all sorts as I say because they have messed up, to make it go away just sign the ST1 (assuming you are able to give the declaration I.e you did use the land in question) and send it back to them. Tell them to pay your costs for getting advice about it and getting it signed.

  • By Guest on 13/01/2019

    Correct and you may wish to try here for advice:

    www.notaryexpress.co.uk

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