If you have recently bought or sold a house, how long did it take?

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From the time your offer was accepted until completion, how long did it take? And how long was the chain?

From offer to getting keys about 6 weeks. People we bought from had already moved so house empty, people buying from us were first time buyers. We are in Scotland though, and I think ours seem to move quite quick once the offer is accepted.

14 weeks to exchange. 3 weeks to complete. 3 in chain. SE.

It always seems to take about four months. I’m always a cash buyer, and even with a clean survey and no chain it’s taken that long. Search delays, slow solicitors, managing agents slow to release information pack, who knows why. Only time it’s quick is when I buy at auction.

So far these are quicker than I thought, which is good. Our offer was accepted last week and I had in mind it would be nice to be in by Christmas. There are 3 in the chain and the start of the chain is a cash buyer.

4 months, and there were 3 couples in the chain. It was held up by our own house sale - although we were selling to first tine buyers, our house was a listed property and there were s few issues with a lack of planning permission for various alterations done by previous owners.

5 months from seeing it online to getting the keys
We where ftb
The lady in our house has one offer fall through and the other accepted
Another month we would have looked elsewhere

Each one is different. So many things can go wrong. The last one was bad took nearly four months and was awful. The one before that the house we were buying the guy pulled out in exchange day.

5 months :( with no chain

4 months 3 in the chain

Offer was beginning of April and moved on Friday, was a first time buyer buying ours and the people we bought from split up and weren't buying anywhere else. Our solicitor was awful though so feel it could have been quicker!

Five and a half months from putting our old house on the market to completion day. We also spent weekends decluttering and preparing before getting estate agents round.

3 months. First time buyers so bottom of the chain moving from rented. Not sure but I think there were two people above us. All went really smoothly.

8 weeks with no chain.

Sold 3 weeks ago. It was a chain of 4, very messy as there was a split further down (2 people each selling to buy one together).

It took 13 weeks, and that was with constant chasing and pushing. Annoyingly us at the top and our buyers were ready after 7 weeks, but the ones at the bottom were slow with their paperwork. Then slow with transferring their deposit, etc etc.

Sold in May. Moved the week before Christmas. Three in the chain. Buyer had nowhere to sell. My seller wasn't buying another.

Put on market last August. Accepted offer and made offer on new place on Christmas eve. Moved just before Easter. Five in chain, including first time buyer. We were second to top of chain. Some delays lower down chain when surveyors threw up some concerns about incomplete building work. I was really worried the chain would collapse because of this, but all fine.
I've barely started unpacking and we've been living with just the bare essentials but school breaks up soon, then unboxing starts.

4 months, FTB buying ours and our sellers were supposed to be no chain...however half way through they decided to buy a BTL so it held us up...i swear im never moving again!

2nd viewing and offer beginning of March, moved in Friday in June.
So four months.

12 weeks no chain. Solicitors were slow on both sides, no major enquiries either.
However it could of also been much longer too. If you are in a chain I think Christmas is a good aim and anything before is a bonus. Could also be longer if any issues....

About 8 weeks. But it all depends really - when we sold our flat we were massively messed around by the buyers for nearly 4 months who then pulled out. We found new buyers and completed in 6 weeks. In my experience it's your buyers who drive the timeline.

6 months, chain of four houses

As an estate agent in Scotland most transactions I deal with take about 6-8 weeks, if it’s a cash purchase it can be as little as 4 weeks (assuming the solicitors are on the ball).

There are a lot of people in the area I work moving here from England and with the stories I hear it never fails to amaze me that anyone there ever actually moves. It took my aunt, selling in Kent, 6 months to move and she was moving in with family and selling to a first time, cash buyer. That’s madness!

It took 4 months. There was no chain and we were cash buyers. Really could not understand why it took so long

Have bought and sold many times (7 or 8) and it's averaged out at 3 months each time.

4 months from offer to keys, no chain but lots of complications as vendor lived abroad and rented the house out and had to fix the boiler for it to pass a gas safety certificate.