House sale/ conveyancing has made me ill

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I've been waiting to complete on a house since Autumn and no other houses for sale in my area. The person we're buying off has a complex forward sale and we can't get any definate answers from them on dates after 6 months. The house chain has colapsed and been rebuilt twice.

I'm in an incredibly cramped living space with three kids and no garden.

I've put my all into this and i'm terrified it will be for nothing. My job isn't going well because this has been like a soul destroying extra pt job. The stress has made me worried, then withdrawn and now plain sick. Spring is in the air and i've piled on weight with stress. I feel like i've gave everything up for nothing. I feel cheated and robbed. I just want to cry all of the time becasue i feel so deeply invested in something that isn't working.

Nobody can give me a time frame, my mortgage offer is going to end soon. I feel an idiot. But i can't give up because we need the space.

My menal health is not holding up in any way shape or form. I'm just not coping and i don't see a way out.

I don't feel like me anymore.

Its really stressful.
I'm due to complete at the end of March.
Really stressful.

You're not alone

Can you sell the house and move into a rental for now? Wait for something suitable to come into the market from there?

I guess it's making a decision on how important this sale is to you.

No one knows if hoise proces are going to drop or increase.

Whether you will find it harder to buy what you want and if you do rent whether you will be stuck there because of what is happening to the property market.

Interest rates have just gone up- will they go up further?

If you've already found it difficult finding something you like I'm unsure if moving into rented will help the situation at all, or is it a case of compromising and going for something that doesnt tick all the boxes right now?

Is it just best to cancel everything and just sit tight for now?- only you can decide.

I'm with you. We've been trying to sell for four years (although we did come off the market for lockdown as DH and I couldn't face working from home and being 'viewing ready') and we are on our fifth buyer. Our sales keep falling through for different reasons. I'm just waiting for the current sale to fall through and have absolutely no faith that we'll ever move. I also feel like a complete idiot and am sick to death of friends, family and colleagues asking, 'any news on the move?' I'm busy at work and so tired with also having to chase solicitors, estate agents etc. Like you OP, mortgage offer on the house we are supposed to be buying (our vendor has stuck with us through the last two sales) is going to run out and I just don't have the energy to arrange another.

I've recently taken some time of work with stress and depression for many different reasons but house sale was a big contributing factor.

You're not alone

Have you exchanged already??