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why is our house purchase taking so damn long?

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drxerox · 25/04/2014 13:12

We had our offer accepted a couple of months ago. The list of questions was sent by our solicitor a month ago to the vendors., and nothing has happened. In our last phone call the estate agents said that the vendors had returned the answers to their solicitors, who had not passed them on. We have now found out, via our solicitors, that the vendors have still not answered the questions.
We've left a message with our estate agent, asking what's going on. But a) why would the ea lie to us about this and b) why would the vendors behave this way? After all, surely they want to sell. If they'd changed their mind, why don't they tell us? What makes it more difficult is that the sellers have said that they will only deal with us through the ea's.
If this wasn't the house of our dreams, we would walk away.

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EssentialHummus · 24/01/2017 13:30

To add, we are not selling, and the vendor apparently has a bridging loan for their next home. No idea why things are dragging.

Jean32 · 25/01/2017 18:09

We have two days before our vendor pulls out,all because
of some idiot dragging their feet !

wohmum · 27/01/2017 16:36

i share all your frustrations! Have just put a long post on the 'in chain' thread moaning about our buyers sloth-like solicitors !

petethemadman · 10/01/2019 16:13

Hello!!
we started process on august 1st and all legal crap done!
swan housing are arranging the mortgage for the buyer and no movement what so ever, 167 days, I am now emailing the CEO of swan every day and not a sausage, what a comp waste of space they are!!!
there should be a law with this and a compensation charge, this would get their ass in gear, has anyone els had this issue with swan???

Spickle · 10/01/2019 21:17

petethermadman - this is an old thread. Might get responses if you start a new one.

fuzzyduck1 · 11/01/2019 13:52

Buy from auction you then only have a month to complete and all the searches have already been done.

Bought our last house this way it was a dream. Funny thing is we didn’t even see the house before buying in just looked on google earth while at auction. 1 month later completed and moved in simple.

Maddaloni · 08/05/2019 14:02

You are giving me hope with the 7 months - so far, and I'm still waiting it's been 5 months

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