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To ask how long it was for you: offer accepted to completing on your home?

37 replies

FlyingSoap · 30/04/2024 08:33

We made an offer mid April.

We are first time buyers and seller is moving into a vacant property. Hoping it’s quick because of this! Thinking it will likely be August time?

How long did it take for you from having an offer accepted to moving in?

OP posts:
FuzzyPuffling · 30/04/2024 08:40

3.5 months, with a super speedy terrier of a conveyancer, and me treating it like a full time job.

tiutinkerbell · 30/04/2024 09:29

Six weeks thanks to motivated buyers and sellers and no chain.

Huldrafolk · 30/04/2024 09:30

Ten weeks, but I really hustled everyone.

EveningSpread · 30/04/2024 09:32

8 weeks for my purchase - I used a highly recommended local solicitor who did it in the blink of an eye.

My sale took months and months - I used the big in-house conveyancers of the estate agent for that one, and they had massive caseloads and stalled constantly. I had to read them the riot act to get them to exchange. Was horrible. Never again!

BuddingPeonies · 30/04/2024 09:37

Sale: 4 months.
Purchase: 3.5 months. Would have been quicker, but our solicitor got covid, then DH and I got covid, and noone would listen to me that the garage conversion needed planning permission until we went to sign the contracts........

KreedKafer · 30/04/2024 09:43

Four months.

Chatonette · 30/04/2024 17:07

Offered mid-December and moved in mid-March. 3-house chain. Hustled our solicitors.

Lesson learned from previous 3-house chain last time we purchased—left it up to the solicitors, only to find out a few months down the line that our buyer HADN’T EVEN APPLIED FOR THEIR MORTGAGE at that stage. Our seller was very cross and we nearly lost our house.

Be a pushy Karen.

ToxicChristmas · 30/04/2024 17:12

We had the offer accepted 25th August and we completed 6th November. All during covid so was great considering what was going on with the world. No chain though so was fairly simple.

Yellowhammer09 · 30/04/2024 17:12

Offered at the end of August, completed in mid-January. A chain of three; us, sellers, and one other. I wish I'd used a competent conveyancer 🙃During the last month I was calling them every single day for an update.

ChampagneSuperDrinker · 30/04/2024 17:19

Less than 3 months both times. First no chain, second time we were buying and selling, then no others in the chain.

mumda · 30/04/2024 17:21

April until August.
Learnt from that and have since used a conveyancing person who advertised in a house auction catalogue. He's very efficient and effective.

WaitingfortheTardis · 30/04/2024 17:21

Five and a half months. Our buyers were first time buyers and the people we were buying from had no onward purchase. I have no idea why it all took so long.

Haruka · 30/04/2024 18:06

4 months. Mostly because their solicitors were working at snail pace. No chain, but I had the pressure of needing to move out of my rental at the end of the contract. Keep nagging.

Q124 · 30/04/2024 18:07

9 months. Chain of 3. We were in the middle. Our buyer was a cash buyer.

muddlingthrou · 30/04/2024 18:28

Four months. Some of that was delays with our onward purchase. I could tell our FTBs were getting frustrated with us, but we really were pushing as hard as we could!

Conkerqueen · 30/04/2024 18:42

April 22nd - august 16th and that was with a little delay. Also FTB with seller moving to vacant property

Peonies12 · 30/04/2024 18:51

About 5 months. We were bottom of the chain and we did drag our heels a bit as we wanted to save more money whilst living with family

SoundTheSirens · 30/04/2024 18:56

Just under six months.

We were chain free and ready to go as soon as. Unfortunately our vendor had lied that he had no upper chain as he claimed he was moving in with family, then held everything up trying to time it with the purchase of his new house 🙄 I had to threaten - and be serious about - pulling out to get us to completion, as well as having done a lot of chasing and acting as middle man between conveyancing solicitors and other parties in the meantime.

doingitbythebookthistime · 30/04/2024 18:58

Offered on 26th June, moved in 17th November! No chain on either side, felt like a lifetime.

Gigglebert · 30/04/2024 19:25

We are in Scotland, moved last April. 6.5 weeks from offer accepted on our house to moving. First time buyers bought ours (and he was a lawyer, his firm handled their side) and we were buying from people we knew two streets away who didn't have an onwards purchase. It would've been 6 weeks but the easter bank holidays got in the way!

Glass113 · 30/04/2024 19:26

10 weeks, no chain and excellent solicitor.

mindutopia · 30/04/2024 19:27

5 months, nearly 6. Our sellers though were waiting on a tenant to move out of a second home though so they could move in.

StealthIguana · 30/04/2024 19:33

2 months, selling in England and buying in Scotland. Although we had a cash buyer, it was the English sale that made it take so long. I think there are a lot more searches etc. that need to be done in England, if we were in Scotland originally it would likely have been a matter of weeks at most as we were ready to go with our mortgage offer and the property was vacant.

CasperGutman · 30/04/2024 19:34

About 3 months the first time, and about 3.5 the second.

Createausername1970 · 30/04/2024 19:48

About six months. But we were buying a place that was being built. We could have completed sooner if the property had been ready. But we did advise the buyer of the likely timescales right at the start, when they came to view our place, and they were happy.