How long did it take you to find your home?

[PineNutPine]

At the start of our property hunt! Have found the ideal area and now checking Rightmove everyday. From deciding to move to moving in, how long did it take? I’m just very curious and trying to manage expectations.

For me, going back decades, it took a couple of years as my budget was very tight at a time when house prices went through the roof. As in, the 2 bed flats I was after, doubled in the two years I was looking

However, more up to date, both of my dc put an offer in a month (well one 5 weeks and one 3 weeks) after they started looking round places.

Fast - every time I have moved, I have rented / bought the first and only property I went to see.

10 years ago, took 18 months. Have started again recently and it has already been a few months.

Last March house went up for sale/sold immediately but took me until June to find somewhere else, then in December my buyer broke the chain after messing everyone around. House went back on market immediately (and sold) and I struggled to find my new house until end of February.

I seem to be stuck in a loop of EA and solicitor inactivity/hiding yet again so I have no idea if I will ever move. Really getting me annoyed now.

We’ve been looking for over a year 😱 one thing I have noticed is a lot of the houses that are coming to market now, I saw last year, but they are back on and reduced…

Two weeks. Exchanged and completed on the same day then had a tenant move in the following day as I wasn’t ready myself yet. However that was in 2005 and definitely not the norm.

More recently, started looking around June, made an offer end of October. Moved end of February.

I think it is much easier nowadays, because you can sit in your own home and peruse properties every day if you want, so have a much better 'feel' for what is about; what prices are doing ; what sorts of things people do with similar houses; what future possible improvements or changes might be possible ; etc, long before you actually go and physically see a property.

From deciding to move to moving in was 6 months but 5 months of that was the legal bits and bobs we had an offer accepted on our new house within 1 months of starting to look.

Almost 2 years to the day, though we had been searching Rightmove not very seriously for probably a year or so before that. To be fair, it was during COVID so it was hell ish. We had one purchase that fell through because vendors decided after 4 months just before exchange to pull out.

Then was another year and 3 months of viewings and offers, before we finally found our house and had the offer accepted. Then 5 months of conveyancing and waiting on vendors to be ready to move. I’ve never been so bloody grateful as I was to receive that call that we had completed, literally had to pull over to the side of the road driving over with a carload of stuff to pick up the keys.

It’s a beautiful house and I absolutely love where we live and I will never move. They will need to wheel my dead body out of here one day because I’m not going any other way. 😂

Bought in march and moved in may

5 years (and have still not actually moved in, though the house is now ours!)

Yes I've noticed that, the same ones from last year are coming back to market - only at same price/more but ususlly a different EA. Some even have the Christmas tree or snow in the photos yet claim they are new to market 😬

It depends on what you are looking for. What do people think of this place?

2 bedroom terraced house for sale in Victoria Street, Windsor, SL4

I think it’s absolutely gorgeous.