Paul

Hello Just wanted to let you know that we signed for our house last Monday!  It took nearly 9 months to get the Power of Attorney through the court and then as soon as we got it the lady in question died, which meant it wasn't needed anyway!!  I very much appreiciated the advice given last time, so have a new question for you: According to the cadastral plans we own a piece of land to the side of our house that is 9 metres wide and is as long as our property (not quite sure how long!), which runs straight into another field owned by a local farmer.  He has ploughed the field and planted sun flowers leaving us with about a metre and a half wide strip of land.  The notaire guaranteed us that the land was ours and said that she would write to the farmer but then it would be up to us to sort it from there.  At present we have no use for the land and are quite happy for him to use it, but I read somewhere that if you let someone use land without any form of payment it becomes theirs after a certain period of time.  Is this right?  Should we approach the farmer?  Obviously, we don't want to upset the neighbours the minute we move in! Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks. Paul

Yes, offer was accepted in November and deposit paid in January.  We are cash buyers and have made that clear, hoping that would get them shifted! Regards,   Paul

Thanks - I think we are just going to have to wait by the sounds of it!  Do you think it would be worth talking to our Notaire.  We have not had any direct contact with her, only through the agent. Regards Paul

When we found a lovely house we wanted to buy, the agent advised us that the lady selling was incapable of making decisions, presumably due to a stroke or something similar.  This meant that before the sale of the house could complete the family needed to apply through the courts for power of attorney.  They advised us that this would mean that the sale would take a little longer to go through, up to 3 months.  We are now up to 6 months and we are no further along.  Has anyone come across this situation?  Any ideas of the time scale it might take to complete?  Is there anything we can do to speed things up?  The agent appears to be as frustrated as us, but it is difficult to tell when they are there and we are here in the UK! Would appreciate any comments.  Thanks very much. Paul