He much would this have cost me?

[JeannieJo]

Bit of light-hearted fun but curious to know the answer to this!

I had a dream that my husband decided to buy a new house. It wasn’t very nice and not in a nice area - definitely not an upgrade (I love my house!)

In my dream, I went along with it till the day of the house move and all my belongings were being loaded on the back of the removal truck and I went mad and said we were pulling out!! Meanwhile in the dream at the time, my husband was madly chasing our cat that had escaped when we opened the door to the removal firm (we don’t even have a cat! 🤣)

I’m curious to know how much this would have cost me! What would I have been liable to pay? 😂

What?

at the point of being about to pull away with a loaded van you’re likely to have completed so you’ve sold your house. No going back.

if you’ve not completed but you’ve exchanged then you lose your deposit.

Tens of thousands but impossible to quantify as costs vary so much - you say it wasn't a nice house or in a nice area but plenty of £500k-£1M+ houses in London probably come under that description.

All the search fees, mortgage application fees, solicitor's bill, cost of removal truck, loss of deposit on the house you've bought or loss of stamp duty paid.

Once completed, you might effectively have to sell it again, rather than be able to just pull out.

Plus you'd have to find somewhere to live as you have no right to your previous house back.