At long last we have a buyer - we accepted her offer three weeks ago. Because our house had been on the market a while, we hadn't viewed any properties until we got the offer.
Whilst we were on market, quite a few 'suitable' houses came up - they all went quite quickly
Since the offer - nada. Only one house in our price range has come up, and that's with me putting in about 20k more into the search engine than ideally we want to spend. This house is ok, but opposite a car park and has a tiered garden which isn't exactly ideal with two smalls.
We live in a 'holiday' town - so all the rentable houses are holiday lets. There are two bed flats (we live in a two bed, its why we are moving) and four beds way beyond our budget. I don't really want to go into rented anyway, for a few reasons, but there isn't anything anyway.
Our buyer loves our house, which is great, but is starting to make noises about when she can exchange, which I understand.
But there is nowhere for us to go to - I frantically check all the websites every day, I have letter dropped and been into the high st agents. They all agree there is a 'stock shortage.'
my question is - what do I do?
I think the buyer wants to set an exchange date with a longer spell to completion, but I think that will force us into rented (2 bed or out or area) - my agent said 6 week gap between exchange and completion, but if we haven't found anywhere by exchange we wont be able to complete in time ourselves iyswim
I feel a bit stuck, and am assuming we will lose our buyer - she could always move into rented until we find somewhere but I am sure she doesn't want to do that any more than we do.
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We have a buyer. And I can't find anywhere to move to.
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heylottie · 19/05/2015 13:14
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