When does the 'Sold' sign go up?

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When the property is under offer, or on exchange, or not until completion??

Sold (subject to contract) goes up when an offer is accepted where I live.

"Sold subject to contract" goes up when it's under offer. We've had one for weeks and weeks and exchange is forever disappearing off into the distance.

When under offer but we never got one!

We had Under Offer up until we exchanged then Sold.

Ours went on the day after we accepted the first offer, back in December, but due to various property woes we still haven't moved. We have exchanged but they haven't changed the Sold STC sign for a Sold one.

Exchange.

Until then it's just words.

We were under offer with no sold board until the buyers proved their financial qualifications. As soon as that was done the sold board went up.

The sold subject to contract sign was going to go up on ours the day we agreed the sale - I know this as I phoned the agent back an hour as agreeing to ask if they could delay until our neighbours came back from holiday (they are elderly, lovely and don't want us to leave) - they'd already phoned the chap to put sign up, luckily they contacted him again before he did. Sold boards don't tend to go up in this area, in fact, one that completed last week had the subject to contract board removed on day of completion.