Waiting to exchange.Anyone with me?

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So FTB,
Latest update last week was solicitor waiting for an enquiry raised with sellers solicitor & 1 search to come back.
Almost there!!

Anyone else with me?

Congratulations Please!

Nice one Please!

Our mortgage offer has been accepted and cleared by the underwriters so now it's down to valuation survey.

Vendors return from holiday on Wednesday so hopefully things will start to happen end of next week, early next.

@Justtheonequestion if in doubt I would get a full buildings survey.

Will do thank you.

Thanks all, sipping glugging well deserved bubbly with dh.

I think Just you should try for a very short exchange and complete date to minimise the time the xdh is in the house once it's yours and definitely do a quick walk through just before exchange.

We tried to buy a house from a divorcing couple, they couldn't decide what they wanted to sell for or even if it was for sale Must be terrible for the one who is wanting out of the marriage (and the buyer )

Fab news please. All looking hopeful here, our solicitors have reviewed all answers and went back with 2 questions today which should hopefully be resolved Monday.

Received the contracts today for signing ahead of exchange. It's all very exciting.

Well it would be if our vendors would get a wriggle on!!! My solicitors haven't heard from them yet and they are away until next week. I had hoped they did a lot of the paperwork before they went away but no such luck.

Good luck hopefullymoving - as far as we’ve been led to believe everyone has signed all contracts so all we are awaiting is solicitor replies. Hoping for good news this week. And hoping I haven’t jinxed it - just bought a bargain clearance sofa in John Lewis!! (Down from £860 to £719 to £360 - couldn’t say no!! Have booked delivery for hopefully day after completion)

Contracts finally arrived correctly spelt on Friday so they were signed and returned and all the money paid to our solicitor as we are cash buyers and we have asked for completion no later than the 20th. I'm praying for exchange tomorrow as everything is done. I've got insurance quotes ready is there anything else I need to think of? We won't be moving immediately as the house needs some work and is currently empty, but I know I need to read meters there and contact suppliers, do I also need to contact the local council immediately about Council tax?

New sofa? I love a bargain and I would see it as a good thing and meant to be

Sounds a bargain sofa!
Hopefully things will start moving for us later this week. Fingers crossed.

Just seeing how everyone is getting on - still no news yet on an exchange date for us. 11 weeks in, only 2 people in chain, hoping for news soon. Frustrating!

We’ve got a provisional completion date!!!!! Mid August. So fingers crossed everything is sorted with our buyers sale in time to exchange by the end of July!!

Am fuming. Had hoped that given the option between eviction with no share of the house sale and just moving into short term let/shared house/camping site and getting 50% , Vendor might have seen sense and signed the paperwork. But no. He's now complaint to his divorce solicitor that since he only started looking 2 weeks ago, and is doing 'everything he can' it's unfair to start the proceedings now. Despite accepting the offer in the first week of March and the first exchange date being in mid June. He has offered to exchange if there is an open completion date 🤨.
I have bookmarked a 'congratulations on your divorce' card.
Fingers crossed he comes to his senses before the end of the week. Wishing we'd accepted the initial 6 week gap between exchange and completion.
Can't even do a super short exchange/completion date as my work has become really strict on needing a weeks notice and have to book extra nursery days on advance as well.

Two months ago, I'd have felt slightly sympathetic towards him having to leave the family home. Turns out he's struggling to rent somewhere as 2 years ago, he rejigged his company to avoid paying child maintenance so now it looks like he has no income. Coupled with his documented abusive behaviour (court evidenced) and general fucking about (refusing to answer to EA/Solicitor, allow electrician survey etc). I have no sympathy at all.

We're just waiting on our mortgage offer, once we have that we should be able to exchange (assuming our vendor's purchase is going quickly or they'll break the chain). Spoke to the broker today and she said we should have it early next week at the latest so I'm hoping we can exchange towards the end of next week and complete two weeks later.

That reminds me zebra I need to call the mortgage people and chase the valuation survey. See if they've booked it yet.

@HopefullyMoving You might find it quicker to ask the EA and then chase the broker if it hasn't. Ours was done 3 days after our application went in, we had the report 3 days after that.

Thumping head against the desk here - still not had reply from our vendor's solicitors - have chased first thing Friday, yesterday and today. So annoying that the issue flagged is the one we told our solicitor about at the beginning (missing planning/building regs for an outbuilding) and we know that all that is needed is an indemnity policy in case of enforcement notice being served, which would cover the costs of demolition and making good. Costs about £100, sellers should provide but we are happy to pay if they won't. Our solicitor has known about this for months but her process is to "raise all enquiries when she has all searches in so that there is only one lot of enquiries". Great, but now we have to get this sorted which could have already been done!!! What am I paying her for?!?!?! Our vendor's solicitors raised one lot of enquiries right at the beginning, then when they were all in they did the file review and checked off any outstanding issues. Beginning to wish we'd used a call-centre type solicitor too. Thought a local "proper" firm would be more efficient.

I feel your pain Housemum.

It has taken our solicitor, our estate agent and our buyer approximately 20 phonecalls to get an update from their solicitor.
The process is infuriating!

@zebrapig I called the bank this morning and the vendor text me an hour later to say the survey has been booked! It really pays to nag, eh?!

Hugs all round it seems.....next move is all round. Tomorrow is Wednesday and half way through another bloody week of nothing. We signed and returned the contracts on Thursday ( after a 3 week battle to get them spelt correctly) and paid all the money to the solicitors ( cash buyers) on Friday so that exchange could be done on Tuesday......well it's 5:31 and nothing we are supposed to have completed by Friday and it's just never going to happen this week now and I'm gutted ....I am packing and have boxes and paper everywhere and I'm desperate to get a job but living a few hundred miles from the new house this is next to impossible.
Sorry for the whinge it's been a grumpy kind of day
Fingers crossed for the rest of the week

I'm almost ready to exchange on my sale but not even started the purchase as the vendor has been away. They are back now so hopefully things start to move a bit now. I really hope my purchasers don't lose patience and stick with me. I'd be gutted if they pulled out. I am literally ringing or emailing or texting each person the minute they have something to do. People will be fed up with me but if it means I make this happen then so be it.

Will hear from the mortgage survey end of next week and hopefully have our offer. Hopefully our solicitors will have initial paperwork by end of this week so they can do searches. I have put them on notice to expect info this week so hoping that helps.

I want to move in by September but not sure if that's doable. Let's see how this goes.

It's painful to watch, let alone live through 🙈

Hopefully Nagging people and constant contact definitely seems to pay off. I'm speaking to both estate agents every week (sometimes twice) and emailing the solicitor about the same amount. We've been fortunate that our solicitor is very responsive and the ea we're buying through are very 'on it'. Our chain was so big that it's already been broken twice below us by people moving in with family to ensure that the sales go through. The only spanner in the works now are our vendors who decided at the 11th hour to purchase another property. As soon as mortgage offer is in we're ready to exchange I think so they're going to be told they need to be ready to proceed when we are or break the chain. Our buyer is very keen to move as are we.

I just want to confirm it's not that we are not in contact with our Conveyancing solicitor or the EA that's making everything go slowly, we are in contact roughly every other working day....we discovered last week that some of the delays (all of them I think) have been caused by the vendors solicitor only working part time so she only sees anything 2 bloody days a week! I wanted to throttle the vendors at this point as they were the ones pushing and pushing for a quick sale as it's an estate sale and the last one fell through.

Keeping in contact helps but when one half of the wheel is very flat most of the time it's going to be very hard to push up hill