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Selling time frame

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fairplay · 13/08/2014 21:27

Hi. How long should it take to sell a house? My solicitor has told me today that it will take another 8-12 weeks and we are already 4 weeks in.

I filled in all of the questionnaires 3 weeks ago and let the solicitor know that I will have to order the fensa and building reg certificates and send them on when I get them. Solicitor has then held onto all paperwork and not sent anything onto our buyers solicitor until we got the certs to them last Friday.

Buyers solicitor has now only just requested searches.

Is this normal or could paperwork have been sent on, and everything started without the fensa and building reg certs?

Part of me thinks it could have been sent without but my solicitor has been on holiday for the past 2 weeks so she is covering that this was overlooked. I want to check before I respond to her!

The survey was done over 3weeks ago and the sellers are fine with it. I just can't believe that it will be another 8-12 weeks , the solicitor dealing with our purchase said 6-8 weeks for the whole process!

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msfreud · 13/08/2014 21:34

I had an offer accepted on 30th June and I'm hoping to complete on 28th August - and this was chain free at both sides!

From my experience of buying/selling, yes, solicitors can and do send out information when available rather than waiting for it all to be ready. But I've also found it helps to chase everyone a lot to keep things moving, although my solicitor tends to be very good with that. Vendors solicitor has seemed less on the ball however.

specialsubject · 13/08/2014 21:43

you've got some dopey solicitors here, (including yours) and searches can take several weeks.

keep nagging.

MrsJohnDeere · 13/08/2014 21:51

Sounds a bit slow to me.

We did offer - completion in 8 weeks (with Christmas in the middle, effectively writing off 2 weeks) and a chain of 4 bevause all parties were pushing for things to go quickly.

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fairplay · 14/08/2014 21:06

Thanks for your replies. I'm going to keep nagging then. I'm selling in the taunton Deane area and apparently they are so slow!

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CuthbertDibble · 15/08/2014 09:12

I had an offer accepted on 27th June, chain free both sides, no mortgage, we're hoping to exchange next Friday.

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