Lawyers have been voted as the worst performers in the home buying and selling process for the third consecutive year according the latest annual survey by property search website, PropertyFinder.
The survey, which compares how lawyers, surveyors, estate agents, and mortgage lenders perform in the house buying process, places lawyers at the bottom of the list for service. According to the survey, lawyers provided not only the poorest quality of service but are the most obstructive too. They also scored badly on value for money. Respondents to the survey complained about lawyers’ insistence on writing letters instead of phoning or using e-mail. Women were particularly hostile to the legal profession with 61% of female respondents saying they were bad or terrible value for money. An...
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