To try and sell our house when DH works long stretches abroad?

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Blatantly posting for traffic. All help appreciated!

My DH works abroad for 3/4 months at a time. We are trying to move house. It’s our third time moving so I’m ok with that bit. However we’re in a bit of a hurry to get moved and he is due to work away again at start of November for 3 months. My question is how or indeed can we sell when he is away? How do we do it?? Both of us are bit lost!! Do we need to see a solicitor?

Dh and I are a week away from completing on our sale and onward purchase. We were both needed at the beginning to sign some paperwork, and last week to sign more. The rest could and was done remotely.

However. It is hands down the most stressful thing we have ever done, and we sold within a week of being on the market. I cannot imagine how much more stressful it would be having a lengthly for sale period or, even worse, sales which fall through, nd having to carry that alone.

Would you be buying another house or moving to rental?

We are buying another house. So need to sell ours and buy another one. All whilst he isn’t in the country!

We did this when OH was working abroad, we set up a Lasting Power of Attorney to allow me to sign on his behalf etc., but that was a long time before electronic communications so I don't know what the current situation is. It can't be so unusual, many military families do it.

Yep we are a military family but the military are not being that helpful! So maybe we need to see a solicitor?

I moved overseas and then sold the house I joint owned with my ex. The solicitor sent me something to sign to say he could deal with all of it but obviously emailed both of us with all updates. I think there was only one lot of paperwork that had to be couriered to me to sign otherwise the rest was email.
Do you need to buy too? That might be harder

Yep we need to buy too. Potentially could use family as a stop gap if push came to shove

Yes, lasting power of attorney should help. It is easy to set up - there is an online form mostly filled in online then printed and signed / witnessed. You don't need a solicitor.

My husband and I live in different countries and he is only here a couple of weeks every few months. We have a couple of rental properties and remortgage every couple of years on each and it was driving me bonkers meeting all the ID and signature requirements when he was away. Often they'd give us a new hoop to jump through on the day after he'd left 🤣.

So we've done this LPA now, should be completed soon and then I can do it all myself 🤞🤞🤞

Just don't forget to tell him where you've moved to!