No it's not U to want to know. You need to pack up, arrange removers, and still maintain your usual daily lives. No wonder moving home is up there with bereavement and divorce as one of the most stressful things you can experience.
We were due to move on the 18th Dec twelve yrs ago, short chain, cash buyer for ours, us buying a vacant possession house. We heard next to nothing about progress of the sale. Eventually I rang the solicitors to demand an answer as to whether we were moving before Christmas or not, they put me through to the senior partner in the firm who told me the member of staff dealing with the conveyancing had been sacked! He informed me that he would be dealing with it himself, and that we were now looking at around 7th Jan for completion. I was concerned that my buyer would be upset, as really there was no reason for us not to have completed in six weeks, but she was OK about it.
We had Christmas at home and decs came down on 27th, and continued packing. As the new house had been empty for some months, the survey highlighted a new ball valve was needed in the header tank and the central heating needed a full service, refilling etc as it was drained down. I asked the estate agent if he could let us have access to the house before moving for the work to be done (as it was sub-zero outside) and he agreed to call the relocation company that had effectively 'bought' the house from the previous residents. They flatly refused, even though I had insured the house from the date of the exchange of contracts, and the estate agent would be present with myself and the gas engineer throughout. They insisted it had to be after completion.
The result was we had to move into a house with no water turned on, no gas and no heat. The engineer was two hrs late and had to work around the removal men to-ing and fro-ing, and it was raining so everything was damp as well.
Fortunately we got a bit of discount from the solicitors bill, and the estate agent shared a bit of gossip about the one who was sacked, saying she had become notorious locally between all the agents as being completely inefficient and putting a lot of property sales and chains at risk.