Five months after the sale of a property, we still cannot access the cash for our new purchaseMy family sold a property and the £223,000 sale price, which we were going to use as a deposit on a new house, was paid into our solicitor’s HSBC bank account. Soon afterwards, HSBC decided to close her accounts, and sent her one cheque combining the funds from all three. A solicitor is not allowed to mix client and business funds and she therefore returned the cheque and requested that the money be split into several payments. Continue reading…
Source : theguardian.com
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