Selling house.

[Justamumof2x]

looking for some advice really

we put out house on the market in August 2025. Accepted an offer 3 weeks later. It’s December now and our solicitors are still awaiting for some enquiries to be raised from the buyers solicitors? Is this normal. It seems to be going very very slow.

Bloody bell yes that’s slow

have you been chasing relentlessly?

And pretty soon everything will grind to a close!

Sometimes, I’m a fan of the “Don’t fuck me about” manoeuvre. Quick and pithy.

Ring the agent, tell them to put it back on Rightmove today and emphasise that it’s on the market.

Then tell your buyers to either shit or get off the pot.

Maybe. If it's the first set of enquiries to be raised, yes way too slow. If it's set 15 because you have a very complicated housing set up and your solicitor is being very slow/evasive then perhaps not

So I heard today that the buyers solicitors are in receipt of their client search results and will raise enquiries shortly and their mortgage offer is currently waited.

but like when we bought the house it took 3 months to make everything happen and that only took so long because the house wasn’t fully built yet.

so 3 months to do searches? Hmm

3 months for searches is very slow. It may be their solicitor or it may be that they are not providing timely information and instruction.

When we bought our first house, 40 years ago, we lost the first one we had an offer accepted on because we didn't understand that we needed to chase folks when our solicitor said they were waiting for information from certain places. So it could be something along those lines. Either way, light a fire under them by telling them you will put it back on the market if you don't get the movement you want to see.

You should be exchanging around now, not dithering around. They don't sound keen, wonder if they are waiting for something.
Have you found somewhere, if so, how's that going?
I think you have to ring the agents and ask what your buyers situation is as that might spread lights on the slowness of this all. It's not like the market is busy right now so no reason for agents or solicitors to be slow due to workload.
I remember throwing an ultimatum of one week til exchange or I'd pull out. I was deadly serious and the agents got in a right flap and tried to make me reconsider. I stayed firm and tbh, at that point, I wish I'd withdrawn. It did go ahead within that week but the house was a nightmare - that's another story, lol.

Did they wait until their survey was done before the gave instructions to do searches? Some people are idiots like that.