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Buyers Sellers Roll Call 15

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MotherofHeathens · 27/04/2021 09:59

Because we're nearly at the end of the other thread and still inflicting this torture on ourselves...!

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Newhousehope · 06/05/2021 14:52

Is there anywhere else, apart from rightmove, zoopla and onthemarket that I should be dedicating my life to in this search 🙈

Cocoaone · 06/05/2021 15:15

Finally received our draft contracts. A mere 6 weeks after having our offer accepted. We thought it was due to our solicitor being slow, but the vendors have only just signed the paperwork

All looks ok except they don't have an EPC. Now we're waiting for searches... I'm just hoping that the solicitor has already started them...still desperately hoping to meet the stamp duty deadline.
Mortgage is in place and survey done etc, so it's literally just the searches and enquiries to go and 7 weeks to do it in.
No chain on our side or theirs 🤞🏽

ineedaholidayandwine · 06/05/2021 15:52

I'm anxious as hell. Our buyers are first timers living with parents so thats good, searches underway and survey on our house is this week, hence my anxiety! Hoping no major issues. They seem to be moving quickly.
Draft contract has only just come in on the house we're buying, nearly a month after our offer was accepted, seems their solicitor has been away and not delegated work. Searches now commenced on that and survery arranged for week after next, they are going in to rental so also a good situation.
Does anyone think we'll complete by end June?......wishful thinking no doubt

LittlePearl · 06/05/2021 16:27

I've just stumbled across this thread.....wondering if anyone can help me.

We are selling a property following the death of a family member. We agreed a private sale last year (September). We still haven't exchanged and have the feeling the buyer isn't being straight with us.

Have now decided to remarket, with an EA this time, and have told the buyer that if we get a solid offer with survey done and mortgage offer in place we will go with the new buyer. Told him this two weeks ago, so he's had nearly a fortnight to really pull his finger out.

He's texting us saying he can't believe we're doing this to him, how much money he's going to lose having had survey done etc. We do feel bad but we're so stressed now (had three big bereavements this year and we're struggling) that we feel we have to explore other options.

I feel that we've been very patient and have bent over backwards to help him (had some work done on the house to make it easier for him to get a mortgage) and have basically waited for months. He says it's all delays because of covid.

Is it really taking 7 - 8 months to buy a place when there are only two parties involved in the transaction? Places round our way don't seem to be on the market as long as that but I just don't know. We live the other side of the country.

Themostwonderfultimeoftheyear · 06/05/2021 16:47

Any news cornish?

Our first viewing went well according to EA and they are keen. However their house isn't on the market as they couldn't see anything they wanted until ours came up. EA is meeting them tomorrow morning to get their house on the market. We have 7 viewings tomorrow though so may get a more proceedable offer.

DH has rearranged his Covid jab (managed to get an earlier date) so we can go up to North Wales next weekend to start our search.

tryingtocatchthewind · 06/05/2021 17:14

@LittlePearl is there any way of getting your solicitor to put some pressure on him via his solicitor. I think you’ve been more than patient. Crack on and if you get another buying then block his number and forget he ever existed.

tryingtocatchthewind · 06/05/2021 17:21

Well to update. We spoke to our surveyor and also the opinion of two different Building Control officers I know. All three of them have said to walk away (well my friends were far stronger than that) so that’s the dream house sailing off into the sunset.

Hopefully something else will come up on the market but there’s only been two suitable since we sold ours.

Our buyers are having a survey tomorrow. Lord knows how it’s taken 6 weeks to sort out but I guess I should be happy they are not putting us under pressure.

LittlePearl · 06/05/2021 17:24

Thanks trying.

We asked the solicitor to chase but it sounds as though there are two lots of solicitors involved at his end and she doesn't seem to have got anywhere. We're at the point where we now just want to draw a line under it and start again but having been on the receiving end of some pretty shitty behaviour when we were buyers I've really been trying to 'do the right thing' as a seller. He knows how to make us feel guilty, I think!

I never thought I'd be so grateful to be handing it over to an EA!

cornishmylovely · 06/05/2021 17:26

No exchange today - I am beyond exasperated. Will update tomorrow.

SpnBaby1967 · 06/05/2021 17:32

We finally heard from our solicitor, apparently they're having issues downloading our mortgage offer from the online system? We've sent them our copy, no idea what's going on there. Searches have been requested, so if that's only just happened that'll add 3 weeks on as I think our authority is taking around 20 days last time I checked.

I'm trying so hard to be patient, I knew these things take weeks when we started this process but I just want to be out of our too small crappier house and into our big lush detached dream house already!!

Cocoaone · 06/05/2021 17:48

@LittlePearl - I would say he's taking the piss. That's a ridiculous time assuming he's not in a chain.

I would get your solicitor to give him two weeks to exchange, otherwise you'll start going viewings through the EA

Paddingtonthebear · 06/05/2021 19:03

Joining in 🙋‍♀️
We are FTB, we’ve just had an offer accepted this week and our broker has today submitted our full mortgage application. The valuation should happen next week. There is no onward chain involved thankfully. I guess we just wait now, don’t we? Not sure how long this all takes!

ballsdeep · 06/05/2021 20:15

@cornishmylovely

No exchange today - I am beyond exasperated. Will update tomorrow.
I think we are at the same point. I could cry. I can't speak to my solicitor anymore. She is just beyond awful now. She tells me one thing and the EA something different. It's just too much. I swig from it'll happen when it'll happen to OMFG we were supposed to move but he end of march!!! Let's get going
BakeOffRewatch · 06/05/2021 20:40

@FelicityElectricity, @Newhousehope same here, 5 weeks under offer, 5 weekends of driving around viewing. Fingers crossed this weekend is the one. Because there are so many people under offer and little new on the market, anything decent goes hugely over asking. Like tens of k. Looking outside of London it’s the same, 3 or 4 family houses in a commutable town or village - they go for even more!

Sorry to hear about your husband’s redundancy @TheLette, you never know he could get a better, higher paid job.

@Didicat that is crazy about that £575k house! @mummabubs same, we were looking to sell/buy in January, took our time to decorate and prepare - then bang, pregnancy and lockdown. Didn’t feel right at the time to continue. Will cost us a lot. We could have bought a bigger house up the road last year, but now need to move out of area.

I don’t think the flyer thing would work @felicity, because people can’t see anything they’d want to move to. I’m looking at family homes where the vendors are usually downsizing to bungalows and I’m told the bungalow market is even tighter. I’ve had quite a viewings cancelled at short notice because vendor has decided to come off market, they can’t find the specific thing they want (and I totally understand why they wouldn’t want to shift from their lovely family home to something less decent if they don’t need to!).

The market is weird though, I just said up-post I couldn’t afford on my road but one has just been reduced by £50k. But by now we’ve done done our commute and budget calcs and DH has seen the bigger gardens and wants that for DC. Initially he wanted to go closer into London and reduce commute time, on the reasoning he could be home more!

Ah gutted @tryingtocatchthewind, it’s not the dream house, it was a frog on the way! The horror stories on here have really put me off compromising on a house, or as our EA called it, “desperate house buying”. Really hard not to, given we have to upsize. We constantly trip up over baby stuff.

MedusasBadHairDay · 07/05/2021 07:55

@Paddingtonthebear

Joining in 🙋‍♀️ We are FTB, we’ve just had an offer accepted this week and our broker has today submitted our full mortgage application. The valuation should happen next week. There is no onward chain involved thankfully. I guess we just wait now, don’t we? Not sure how long this all takes!
We're in the same situation, also wondering how long it will all take
cornishmylovely · 07/05/2021 08:06

@ballsdeep so sorry to hear that. I do hope you receive positive news very soon. Here we are another day, we should have moved in two weeks ago and as yet we still haven't exchanged. Hoping and praying for exchange today. So much rests on this.

Newhousehope · 07/05/2021 08:15

@BakeOffRewatch it definitely seems to be an upsizing issue in my area.

A fair few bungalows have come on here, and then gone instantly! But they wouldn’t really work for us, despite DH pining for no stairs 🤣🤣

Didicat · 07/05/2021 08:26

Good luck to all those hoping to complete and exchange today!

Dear lord I’m bored of waiting already! Searches aren’t due back till 14th of June - Local council are rubbish!

BakeOffRewatch · 07/05/2021 09:29

Just called to try to arrange 2 viewings, both fully booked, one EA said it went crazy and fully booked within 30min of going online. sigh

What’s meant for you, won’t pass you...

FelicityElectricity · 07/05/2021 09:38

@BakeOffRewatch I think you might be right regarding the flyers. I reckon if anyone wanted to move they'd probably have already done so? I think we are realising that where we live is a great location for us and I'm not sure we can afford a 4 bed nearby.
Good luck to everyone waiting to hear from
solicitors and to those still looking for a home 👀

ballsdeep · 07/05/2021 12:10

[quote cornishmylovely]@ballsdeep so sorry to hear that. I do hope you receive positive news very soon. Here we are another day, we should have moved in two weeks ago and as yet we still haven't exchanged. Hoping and praying for exchange today. So much rests on this. [/quote]
It's horrendous. I'm so fed up. I've got three young children so I've had to start packing as i dont want to be left with a day or two to do everything! If it takes much longer we are thinking of putting in a complaint with the solicitor. I can't see how they are dragging their feet now. And Fridays are off limits for chasing because it's completion day! I could scream!
I hope you get some good news xx

LaMariposa · 07/05/2021 14:04

More progress here. We've given our final bit of paperwork to the solicitor, and answered some of our buyers questions directly. They have their mortgage offer in place. Just the local searches to come back and they are quite quick round here.
They are over at the weekend to measure up for blinds and take another look pre-exchange - more frantic cleaning for me.

We are signing our contracts on our purchase on Wednesday and hope to exchange on Friday. We've moved a lot of stuff into storage, and breakables and houseplants to relatives - more to be shifted this weekend too. Cattery booked for cats from the day before to the day after the move. DH is in charge of booking removals next week.

Maybe this will happen!

cornishmylovely · 07/05/2021 14:31

Can't quite believe it but we have exchanged and we move on Tuesday!!

Didicat · 07/05/2021 14:36

MASSIVE CONGRATULATIONS @cornishmylovely phew! Better finish the last bits of packing!

FelicityElectricity · 07/05/2021 15:09

Congratulations! @cornishmylovely 🥂