My Great Uncle died on the 24th June 2006 aged 79. He was a single man who had never had children. He did not leave a will. The house he lived in belonged to his parents who did have a will and in it the house was left to all three of their children of whom my Grandfather and his sister were still alive. The estate went to probate and it came back that the estate would be split equally between my Grandfather and his sister after all bills/taxes were paid. The house went up for sale and was due to exchange contracts on the 22nd January. Unfortunately at the beginning of December my Grandfather died (5months and 20 days after his brother). He did leave a will leaving everything to my mother, his only child. We assumed that as probate had been done that my great uncles estate would still go to my Grandfathers estate. On the 22nd of January the date the contracts were due to be exchanged on the house the solicitors stopped it saying that they had to reapply for probate? Why?

Any residue should go into their estate.

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