Buying a house in Scotland - Part Four: Closing dates

February 17, 2016

Unfairly regarded by some as the devil’s work, lawyers’ skulduggery, a scam or some other pejorative term, closing dates have long been used by Scottish solicitors as the means to afford fair play in house sales. It is important to state, at the outset, that many alternatives have been tried and none have succeeded in finding a better way.