House sale.... what week are you on?

[organisedmother]

Ok who is in the lead for longest sale so far, I’m August 1st 17weeks in!! We can all pull our hair out together 😂

@SweetCruciferous

I’ve been planning actually to ask on AIBU if I’m wrong in thinking the painful snails pace is actually a deliberate plot to justify the fees for what are essentially boilerplate admin tasks amounting to no more than a couple of days work.

Yep. My solicitor keeps telling me that she's holding off writing our buyers report as it's "3-4 hours work" which will be still chargeable to us if things don't proceed. I do feel a bit like saying, it is just a bloody template, cut and paste job, there's bugger all unusual about it. I spend a lot of my working life writing reports so I do understand, but it's not like a great work of innovative thought is it?! 🤦🏻‍♀️🤷🏻‍♀️🤣

I'm going in to my 9th week. My conveyancer is thorough and I'm really appreciative of that. However she handled a sale for me which completed in July and even though it was through the first lockdown, it was much faster than all this.
Searches are back, I'm a cash buyer and the vendors vendor is going into rented. I think the hold up is that the searches raised further questions, my conveyancer emailed these to the vendors conveyancer three weeks ago and they still haven't been answered. So I believe once these are answered I'll then receive the buyers report? I believe everything is in place for my vendors to proceed, searches back etc.
Honestly never felt as stressed buying a house and this is my 5th purchase

@Tigergrey I'm in exactly the same position. Absolute nightmare of a neighbour (pounding dance music shaking my house from 5pm last night to 5am this morning - and that's one of the better things she does).
We're also around week 5 so it just feels too far away to have any hope at the moment.
I'm really shocked at how long some of these posts are saying it's taking.

[quote catfeets]@Tigergrey I'm in exactly the same position. Absolute nightmare of a neighbour (pounding dance music shaking my house from 5pm last night to 5am this morning - and that's one of the better things she does).
We're also around week 5 so it just feels too far away to have any hope at the moment.
I'm really shocked at how long some of these posts are saying it's taking. [/quote]
@catfeets Ouch! Sorry you're going through the same thing too, your neighbour sounds just as vindictive as mine. Do you find they've got worse since they've found out you've sold? Mine does! My stupid estate agent sent a 'number XX sold!' through everyone's letter box on the street and the horrid behaviour has ramped up since then.

We will be free of them in a month or two, big fingers crossed!

@Tigergrey yes 100% the behaviour has got worse since we sold. We were always planning on selling quietly, no board etc but we weren't progressing. Then the house opposite went on the market and we decided we needed the passing trade to help us out. Waste of time as no one has viewed that house at all. Since the sold board went on we've had nothing but trouble. We're thinking of taking the sold board off then taking the sign down a few days later to make her think we're not moving anymore.
We've sat and taken 3yrs of nightmare behaviour from her so that we didn't have to report any issues with neighbours on the sale. Then last week all that was ruined when we had to call the police. They did nothing and her behaviour has now escalated.
I literally have no idea what her problem with me is. If she'd speak to me we could probably sort it out but she just hurls abuse (and dog shit into our garden, the dirty cow).

We had our offer to buy accepted the final week of June. No chain on either side.

We've been assured we'll be signing contracts soon.

Incidentally, my mum used to work in a GP surgery, and she HATED when solicitors requested patients' medical records. They had to be printed/copied and posted, and then would inevitably get lost by the solicitor, or they'd just never get round to sending them back. She spent hours chasing solicitors to get medical records back (why they had to send originals which then needed to be returned, I have no idea; surely there's a way to make this more efficient).

I know a couple of solicitors and they seem to take great pride in ensuring their work practices are mimicking those of Dickensian times.

@BelfastSmile I feel your mum's pain. It takes hours to photocopy notes and retract 3rd party info from them and we can't even charge the lawyer for the privilege now...

WEEK 24

By the time we move - assuming it actually happens - it will have taken 26 weeks from acceptance of offer from our nightmare buyers.

15 weeks here. Waiting on land registry document then should hopefully complete before Xmas. First time buyers turned out not to be first time.( Well he was but he was depending on gf flat sale for deposit and her flat sale want mentioned at all at time of offer or to estate agent. Her flat is dependent on a leasehold reversion. Hopefully very soon now but been thru lots of tears and stress!!!

Offer accepted on a property this week. I was wondering if any of you had advice for trying to get things done before the stamp duty deadline? Can we get the vendors to commit to going into rented? It's been suggested but nothing in writing yet - any advice is hugely appreciated!

My sale completed on Thursday after 7 months.
DS is still waiting for his first home to complete. His offer was accepted 19th June. Chain of 2.

I'm shocked at those selling because of nightmare neighbors and not warning the buyers

We put our house on market about 10 weeks ago and will be moving on Tuesday! Sold straight away and we bought soon after. All the paperwork signed etc. It’s been amazingly straightforward. Our previous house sale was somewhat more stressful!
In Scotland so all legally binding now as far as I know!

@KimmySchmidty

Offer accepted on a property this week. I was wondering if any of you had advice for trying to get things done before the stamp duty deadline? Can we get the vendors to commit to going into rented? It's been suggested but nothing in writing yet - any advice is hugely appreciated!

We are in the process of offering our seller a financial incentive to break the chain and move out. Otherwise we are in a 7 link chain that is now incomplete (top seller just pulled out) and our buyers are wanting to insert a clause re us paying their stamp duty if we don't complete by the end of March...

Exactly what we did @ethelredonagoodday . They went into rented and we've now been in our house for 2 weeks. It grates me slightly but it got us our house!

@Phyzzy - I was also pretty shocked by the bad neighbour thing. That's a lawsuit waiting to happen. If a seller misrepresents their house in any way or fails to disclose issues "which may affect the enjoyment of the property" then that's a massive no-no.

I bought a house years ago where the seller failed to mention an issue with a neighbour and I sued his arse off (and won). Also managed to sort the issue with the neighbour and we ended up getting on very well.

Hugs to everyone, it’s so bloody stressful, we are hoping to move too, fingers crossed seems to be going ok-ish so far, we are hoping to move early 2021, I am never moving again after this either, as an earlier Poster said! Thankfully we haven’t moved many times, people who move every few years amaze me, they must have nerves of steel!

@Baxdream

Exactly what we did *@ethelredonagoodday* . They went into rented and we've now been in our house for 2 weeks. It grates me slightly but it got us our house!

Really hoping ours will accept @Baxdream, it's absolutely driving me up the wall!!!

Well... there was a hiccup on Friday, but I’m now sat at the top of the stairs in my new house! It’s been a stressful process but I hope how the worst is over. Good luck to everyone!

That's great news @dizzyupthegirl86! Congrats!

Week 11 now. Loads of views, only one second view though and no offers. We're in a new build development in London so loads are going up in the area. It's no longer new build now, but only 3 years old. All the flats are basically the same but everyone wants the others and not ours. Only a matter of time now I guess unless more go on sale

Week 42 .... safe to say I'm pretty depressed right now 😞

Oh bloody hell @LolaSparkle! 42?!

[quote DeeplyMovingExperience]@Phyzzy - I was also pretty shocked by the bad neighbour thing. That's a lawsuit waiting to happen. If a seller misrepresents their house in any way or fails to disclose issues "which may affect the enjoyment of the property" then that's a massive no-no.

I bought a house years ago where the seller failed to mention an issue with a neighbour and I sued his arse off (and won). Also managed to sort the issue with the neighbour and we ended up getting on very well.[/quote]
But if its just that your neighbours are noisy you don't have to declare it, surely? We have new neighbours who swear constantly and shout (at eachother), the walls are super thin as it's an old terraced but we haven't declared it.