We got two identical offers for our house in mid-June.
We made an offer on a house, and it was accepted on the proviso that the rest of the chain of 5 was already ready, and we all needed to complete by the end of September.
Our EA pushed us towards buyer #2 as they'd worked with him before. Buyer #1 wanted to be in by the end of August, but they didn't know him that well. Buyer #2 made it a condition on the memorandum of sale that they wanted to complete within 8 weeks.
We jumped into getting things done - full mortgage offer recieved within 3 days, searches bought from previous buyers, full building survey done, all forms completed.
Our buyer did nothing, despite us chasing the estate agent, until our seller's estate agent kicked off. He then instructed his solicitors, and paid for searches.
We've had answers to enquiries, and the first round of enquiries from our buyer, which we've responded to. Nothing in the 8 days since. Nobody seems to know the status of the buyer's mortgage - we were initially told he would be remortgaging another house to buy here in cash, then he'd not managed to get his other place revalued so was getting a mortgage for here. They've not asked about having someone come round for a valuation, or survey.
On Tuesday, the sellers EA kicked off again that they'd been told something completely contradictory to another EA from higher up the chain when they called our EA. We called to try and work out what was happening - our EA said they didn't know where funds were coming from or what was left to do, but they felt that at the current rate of progress, we'd be ready but our buyer would not. They also said that they'd talked to the buyer's solicitor, who was missing paperwork.
Our solicitor has been off for 10 days - after a LOT of chasing, we got a reply from her assistant on Thursday that she'd been overrun with work but would work on our case that day, and didn't know anything about any missing paperwork. She didn't contact us again.
I'm 30 weeks pregnant, so quite keen that we know where we're going to be and get organised, and I'm finding it really frustrating being passed from pillar to post...
Do I chase our solicitors, as they should be progressing things?
Or the EA, as they should have checked where his funds were coming from, and work with him a lot?
Or both, as we're paying them both?