Boundary issue

Can someone give me some advice, please as I’m quite confused?

My wife and I are buying a house in Clare currently. The vendors solicitor have advised that there is an issue with the boundary of the site. Contracts have now issued to my solicitor. He’s received them today and has said that there are “significant” issues with the boundary so will take him some time to review.

My confusion is as follows-
Being blunt, what does this have to do with my solicitor?
Edited for clarity-
I trust that my solicitor is acting in my best interests but had thought that, since the vendors were aware of the boundary issue and told me about it, it should have been resolved on their side before contracts were issued.

Surely it falls between the vendors solicitor and the land registry to remedy and should be done before contracts were issued to my solicitor?

Darragh

Your solicitor is defending your rights and will ensure that the boundary issue is sorted before you sign the contracts. Some boundary issues can be minor but if your solicitor thinks they are "significant" then it is only right that he draws everyone's attention to it.

The vendor and vendors solicitor may have been hoping that no one would notice as it can be time-consuming and costly to sort a boundary issue.

Thanks jpd.

I think I could have worded my post better, and will edit it to make it clearer for future responses.

I absolutely trust that my solicitor is working in my best interest and have no doubt that what he’s telling me is true.

I guess what I’m trying to say is that I don’t understand why contracts were issued without the boundary issue being resolved by the vendors as, ultimately, they’re the only ones who can remedy this.

They were upfront about the issue when it was discovered and I had assumed that they were having it rectified and what my solicitor would receive would reflect boundaries based on what was listed on the sales ad, and shown to us when we viewed the house. If they wanted to be duplicitous, surely they wouldn’t have told me in the first place?

I was involved in a boundary issue about 20 years ago in the Dublin suburbs during the sale of a house. The red line on the map in the deeds did not conform to the boundary wall on the ground - the two semi-detached houses were built in the late 1940s but at a slightly different angle to the angle on the map. At the foot of the garden there was a discrepancy of about 2feet between the actual wall and the line on the plan.

No one disputed that the actual boundary was the wall but between getting a surveyor out, maps redrawn and agreed it took the best part of two months and a few hundred euros at the time between paying surveyor, OSI and solicitor.

Were you selling or buying, jpd?

We were selling, well it was a bit more complicated than that. But we were on the selling side