u/bitis_garbonica_zw

I'm currently working as a civil engineer for a design consultancy and find it incredibly stressful. Budgets are always incredibly tight, and there are never enough hours to do the work comfortably which seems to be a universal complaint. I have been toying with the idea of a career change, and land surveying always looked interesting, but I'm not sure what the reality is. I'm UK based if that makes a difference.

We are selling and moving into rented. Our buyer is saying they are close to being ready to exchange. So we have put a holding deposit on a rental to start when we exchange. Now, our solicitor isn't responding to the buyers' final enquiries and won't tell us what is going on. The final enquiries are relatively straightforward.

Is it worth getting another conveyancer at this late stage? Would we be able to bypass our own conveyancer to answer these final enquiries oursleves?

It's a 1970's chalet style house with a very tall A frame pitched roof and dormers. So the entire first floor and all the bedrooms are in the roof, but there is still an actual loft above that that a very tall person can stand upright in. It's how it was originally built, and there are numerous identical chalet style houses with rooms in the roof all over the estate they all have the same layout. I have seen similar 1970s developments all over the UK. Do I actually have to prove it's not a loft conversion and how do I prove a negative? I just really wasn't expecting to have an inquiry like this