When trying to move from our last home, it took us 2 years. The first year, we saw a house we liked very much but wouldn’t accept an offer because we had no real buyer. we had lots of offers but from people who hadn’t yet sold their house and even from people who hadn’t yet put their house on the market. EA told us to continue on the market. None of those potential buyers developed into anything, so no loss. Just very frustrating. Took it off the market after a number of months. Far too stressful with small children to keep house pristine and taking them out for viewings.
Next year put on the market again. Lots of viewings and interest. Accepted and offer from FTB and then out an offer in on a house my DH loved. Then in one day we had a call from EA that we lost the house because someone else who had already exchanged out on an offer. Next a call came that our buyers were pulling out after they had their parents viewed it because the house had bad feng shui
We then had a lady knock on the door that she wanted to view our house and we told her she had to go through the EA. She viewed and made an offer. Supposedly a cash buyer. A house we loved came in the market. We used to walk by this house walking to the station and always loved it. Very characterful. Made an offer and was accepted. Night before survey in our house. EA rings to say the surveyor cancelled the appointment. Turns out this lady is a serial offerer. Makes offers in houses and never goes through!! The EA (same for our purchase) puts forward other buyers for our dream house and offer accepted at same price!!
We get another buyer within two days, no chain. A lady getting divorced so has cash from settlement. Find another house. We like it but not a dream house. Sellers said they’re buying a plot and are moving in to rented. We had to walk away from that house because seller dragging their feet for MONTHS and our buyer was up against a time frame.
Moved to the house we’re in solely because it ticked the boxes for what we absolutely needed for our growing family and, importantly, it was empty. Not a dream house. We agreed we’d live here a few years until we found something we loved.
That was 15 years ago. We have had the most wonderful neighbours. Life long friend not only for us but also our DC
We have done a lot of work to the house and now I can say the inside in our dream house because we made it our own
With that said, we do plan to move in next few years because our needs have changed. Kids are grown and almost gone. We also no longer need to be walking distance to a station. So our next move will be a character house in the country. Different type of dream house than what was our dream house before. But we won’t have any of the constraints we had before. We will also look into selling and renting so we can be chain free to get what we really really want (this time).