How long from offer to moving in?

[Triphid]

I'm just curious to know how long it tends to take from acceptance of offer to moving in?

We've started looking to buy and wondered what the norm is. BTW, we're renting at the mo, so not in a chain. Mortgage needs sorting tho'.

It's about as long as a piece of string unfortunately.
Is your mortgage agreed in principle - could be worth doing this to save yourself a few weeks of the process.

It took us 8 weeks from offer to exchange, and it will be nearly 10 weeks when we actually move in. We are part of a chain of 3, and luckily there were no real hold-ups.

Our previous move took 3 months and we had no chain on either side.

3 months last time

Sort the mortgage out, it makes you marginally mre atratctive and reliable as a buyer.

We had 5 weeks between accepting an offer on our flat and moving out into the house we were buying. But thatwas after a year of trying to sell the flat, and seeing sale after sale fall through.

Get the mortgage sorted - some places won't take your offer seriously until you have an offer in principle. Depends on the estate agent, but best to be sure. Would be a pain to lose a property that you love because you don't have your ducks in a row.

Can be anything from 6 weeks to 6 months + depending on number in chain and whether there are any hold ups/irregularities with the properties.

Last time we moved 10 weeks from offer to moving day.

This time 14 weeks and still no exchange, thanks to our buyers not declaring a previous mortgage one of them had to get out of