A lot of people instruct their estate agent to market their home but then don’t think about a solicitor until after they have accepted an offer. Once this happens, several calls are made to obtain different quotes and a decision made as to who you are going to use. At this point the chosen solicitor will issue a number of documents for you to complete as well as conduct their own identity checks and money laundering procedures and all of this can take several weeks. By appointing a solicitor at the very start all of this can be done and therefore once a sale is agreed and the memorandum of sale issued then your solicitor will be in position to issue a draft contract immediately, they have confirmation from the buyers representatives thus potentially saving a few weeks.