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A lot of firms seem to treat conveyancing like hoovering the living room before your mum comes to visit: It should be a quick job, so it's done at the last minute.

This all goes sideways if there is an unexpected complication, when they finally get to it 5 months and 14 days after the mortgage offer comes through.

Apparently there were price wars for the business in the 90s, so lots of companies treat it like fill-in work for when more lucrative tasks don't need to be done.