Be sure that you get any monies owed to you that may be held on the Client Account.
Correct in most cases, but you never know, there could be a few hundred euro to the client’s credit in the client account. On more than one occasion I was surprised to get a cheque out of the blue from Solicitors in respect of monies held to my credit which I never knew about. For example, the Solicitor may have quoted and charged the client monies based on estimates only to end up disbursing less than what they took from the client, leading to a credit due back to the client.The OP bought not sold though so doubtful any money is outstanding.
Maybe they knew they would bounce...Back in the day, a friend newly qualified as a solicitor went to work in a long established country town practice. Given the job of "tidying up" old files, he discovered several quite substantial cheques FROM clients which were resting, uncashed, in the files! Some had been there for decades.
Just got one in the post today. House sold and house purchased in 2018!We used a solicitor when buying a new house and selling the old one. About 2 years later we received a cheque after a review of their accounts. About a year after that we received another one. Always thought it was strange.