On 7/15/2017 7:48 PM, Janet wrote:
> In article >,
> says...
>> Scottish house-buying is (or was, when we bought ours) much more
>> straight-forward than English or US house-buying.
>
> But we still employ surveyors, lawyers and estate agents.
>
We just had a lawyer and a surveyor.
In the US, we had an estate agent, a lawyer, a surveyor, and one or two
others which I can't remember at the moment - it was a long time ago. (I
think I remember a termite inspection.)