Buying a new home - asking to see house again for measurements?

[novembersunshine]

We are buying a new home and expect to get the keys in the first week of July.

This is also 1 week before we'll be having our baby (ELCS).

Would it be unreasonable to ask the sellers (via solicitors) if they would have a spare 20 minutes over the next few weeks for us to pop in and take measurements for new blinds in the baby's room? Only because blinds can take several weeks to be made and sent, and they don't qualify for express shipping.

I'm just aware things will be hectic once baby is here, I don't know how my recovery will be. But I don't want to be putting the sellers out or be cheeky by asking.

The sellers know we are expecting and were really nice and friendly when we saw them at the house viewing a month or so ago.

Any helpful opinions would be appreciated

Ime vendors are fine with it, but estate agents don’t like it because best case scenario it’s dead time when they aren’t selling, and worst case scenario you could change your mind and pull out. We asked to go back to our house before exchanging to measure up. The agent had to be there as it was empty, and she spent the entire time chivvying us and asking if we had finished yet. She also refused to open the back door, saying she didn’t have a key. We insisted, it turned out the door was sticking really badly, so we added getting the lock fixed to our list of conditions for exchange. Probably wouldn’t have bothered if she hadn’t been such an arsey cow about it.

I am in Scotland, which is why I referred to concluding missives. I have a bit of experience dealing with transactions in England as there are a lot of English buyers in my area but no direct knowledge on the legal process. But the OP asked for advice and I gave it based on my knowledge and experience.

The sellers solicitor would be the side who may recommend no access until conclusion/exchange, the thinking being you have had plenty of opportunities to ‘make enquiries’ prior to submitting your offer. Which is fine for things like surveys, quotes etc but less practical for taking measurements, which most people won’t have thought of prior to offering. Of course the flip side of that is if access isn’t given the buyer may just walk away so it’s a balancing act.

Your solicitor will ask you to go to check condition of house has not changed since you made your offer day before you complete.

It should be standard, imo. Obviously not to the extent that you’re seriously getting in the way of the vendors’ home life, but it’s ridiculous that people are expected to spend hundreds of thousands of pounds on the basis of one half hour viewing. I’ve spent longer than that inspecting cardigans before I buy them!

We've done that for buyers and had it done to us by sellers. Perfectly normal.

It is normal I think, and no solicitor we've used has ever advised against it.
We've been told it's fine for requests such as that to go through the estate agent, but not to give EA updates on the legal process as they used to badger us and our solicitor got quite annoyed as that should all be communicated through solicitors.

Don't worry about nesting, it is nonsense. I gave birth at 37 weeks with my first and we moved house 2 days later. We had nothing. It was fine.