to ask if anyone has ever had a GOOD moving house experience?

[ManAliveThisThingsFantastic]

I only tend to see awful ones!

I put my house on the market on Tuesday 3rd December, had a viewing that day from a woman who came back later that day with her DP for a second viewing. They put an offer in a week later which we accepted.

It has been a fairly painless process so far. House survey has been and approved (if that's right word!), the mortgage valuation has been approved. It has all been done swiftly and without any badgering the solicitors/estate agents. There is no chain from them and we have a new place ready.

So tell me, is it all too good to be true and will I be eating my words soon? Or do you have any good experiences of your own to share?

Ours was fine
Got three offers the day we put our house on the Market
Accepted highest offer the next day
Found our house following week, house was empty no chain
Survey fine, exchanged two and a bit months later
It can be fine :)

Our last move was good but we moved from rented so was fairly straight forward.

I did still have to chase the solicitor a lot though.

I am jealous!!! Good luck with the move!

we moved from a damp rented shite hole in a crappy area to our first bought house. comparible bliss! physical move was a pain as had little to no help, and chasing solicitors was a PITA

Moved from rented flat into DFiance's house when he proposed. Landlord was so happy he let me out of the contract 5 months early without charging me any extra rent (kept my bond to cover the flat being unlet for 6 weeks). Packed all my stuff up, DFiance came and loaded it all into his mahoosive bread van sized car thing with all the seats down, cleaned it all and moved. Simples =D

Plenty of people I know have had really smooth moves. Just take each step as it comes and don't worry unless the solicitor tells you to!

Ours was smooth too. Saw new house on the Wednesday, offer accepted on Friday, put our house on the market the following Tuesday and accepted an offer on the Friday to first time buyers. Everyone agreed on the move in date for 2 months later and the actual move went really well. I kept waiting for something to go wrong but it never did! Think we were very lucky and hope you are too!

Ours was fine too, other than the time the solicitors took and in the end the entire chain sitting on top of their own solicitors. Oh and the fact my hoarder dh completely underestimated how much junk stuff he had. But none of the nightmares I've seen or experienced previously.

Good luck and hope it continues to go swimmingly.

Yep - like you I thought it was too good to be true. I even posted on the Property/DIY forum whether it was too good to be true and what the possible catch could be.

House on the market 1st Feb last year at an asking price a good 10% over what we were expecting to get. Offer made a few days later just under the asking price, so well over what we were expecting! Naturally we accepted but with faces.

Weeks went by, her mortgage took a little while to sort out so in the meantime the house stayed on the market. Offers continued to come in, all at 85-90% of asking price so well under our offer. Made us wonder what on earth this buyer was doing offering so much!

No awkward solicitor questions, no unreasonable demands, survey went absolutely fine (to our amazement given the place was a bit shabby, the electrics needed doing and the boiler was 30 years old!) And once her paperwork was sorted out, we exchanged and completed without any hassle at all. Stunned, we were. Still are. We'd been expecting such hassles!

Of course since then houses in the street have sold for 20% more as there's been a bit of a mini boom in the immediate area (no doubt our buyer is delighted!) but you can't have everything!! We live in a far nicer area/house now anyway

That's great for you all! Such a relief these things can go well all the way through.

I'm understanding the not realising how much junk you have though!!

I put my house on the market, sold it two days later to first viewers.

I'd already seen a house I liked and they accepted our offer.

We moved in nine weeks later.

we moved 3 months ago and it all went very very smoothly. we still pinch ourselves and wonder if we're dreaming. we had no chain, a good solicitor and even the estate agents cut us a deal we couldn't refuse. good luck OP.