We sold our house really quickly and had already had an offer accepted on the house we wanted. However that was almost 6 months ago now and we still haven't exchanged. For the first few weeks the issue was that our vendors lost two houses and are now on their third. However we have all been waiting ages now for the third house to go through. Our EA and solicitor are doing a great job of badgering but it feels like we are all being fobbed off. The problem is somewhere beyond our vendor's vendor where searches seem to be taking weeks. We have just heard that there's a new set of searches just started which will take another 6 weeks... Seems like this may be someone else added further up the chain. We and our buyers are getting really frustrated now but there doesn't seem to be anything we can do, and I don't think people further up the chain are being very straight. Does anyone have any experience of this? We really thought we would be in by the end of May, now it looks more like being August!