Is it just slow solicitors stopping us exchanging?

[LittleMissA]

We are selling our flat and buying a house, its been a long process! Our buyer is a ftb and the house we are buying should be empty now as sellers have had another property they are moving to for the whole time.

We have mortgage in place, already had to extend offer once, all survery, searches done. Been advised our buyer has his mortgage and all queries satisfied etc so what are we waiting for??

We have signed our contract and apparently our buyer is being sent his, some reason its taking 5 days?? Do I need to be pushing every day until we exchange. We want to exchange by this fri and move next fri. The other thing worrying me is we haven't paid any money to solicitor for deposit. Do we need to if he gets some passed up the chain? He seems to be ignoring my emails, will call him tomorrow anyway. He has been reluctant to suggest any dates at any point in the whole process and it worries me!

Is it best to chase my solicitor? estate agent? Our buyers solicitor never seems to return calls to our solicitor either which is a pain and I think why he doesn't want to commit to anything.

This is so stressful!!!

Yes chase the solicitor. Always better to speak to them rather than email, which they can ignore. Tell him you want to exchange and when and ask if all the searches and enquiries are complete. It sound like you should be good to go. Also the deposit your buyer gives you usually moves up the chain on exchange day and you don't usually need to top it up, but also confirm with your solicitor. I find phoning often gets action. They get fed up of hearing you so push things through to stop you calling! Good luck.

you can talk to your solicitor and to the estate agent. Do so every hour if you like, especially to the solicitor whom you are paying. There is NO reason that a contract takes 5 days to get somewhere - are they using pigeons?

if your solicitor appears reluctant to do any work, speak to his/her boss if he has one.

good luck.

Its our buyers solicitor that's not responding to anyone so things can't get finalised. they said 5 days for contract so instead agreed it would be emailed and he would then return straight to solicitor but she hasn't done that yet. Our buyer is sleeping on a mates sofa so desperate to move as much as us.

I will be making lots of calls tomorrow, I couldn't today due to where I was working which was why I only emailed.

Its just so frustrating, the ends in sight just need to tie it all up quickly now

We (well my husband!) are now calling our solicitors and our estate agent at least once a day and sometimes twice! Must admit that things started to move along much quicker once we started being a pain in the *

Also hoping to exchange on Friday and complete/move Friday 13th

I think I will def be calling both everyday until exchange.

Im not very good at being forceful and husband can't make calls at work but will just keep harassing everyone I can.

There's so much to sort I just need to know for certain so I can finalise everything.

I just commented on buyer support thread too, hopefully things go through this week and next for both of us!