The first stretch, usually one to two weeks, is the condition period, when the buyer's lender confirms the mortgage and any home inspection, typically $400 to $600, is completed. Nothing about the sale is legally firm until those conditions are removed in writing.
Once conditions are removed, the lawyers take the lead. Title searches, mortgage discharge on the seller's side, and the property tax adjustment all happen in the weeks before possession, and a longer negotiated possession date, sometimes 60 days or more, simply shifts that lawyer work later without changing what it involves.
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