House sale stress

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14 weeks ago our chain completed and we have been trying to get to the point of exchange. 3 properties in the chain. Involves moving our kids schools.

Our buyers are FTB gazundering twats. Every Friday they drop a bombshell via the agents that hangs over us all weekend. I hate the stress that it is causing us.

At what point do you say that actually this isn't worth it? We are so close to exchange but I feel at this point we're more likely to divorce than move house.

Please tell me it gets better? I constantly have a tightness in my chest and am not sleeping well.

It's a nighhtmare, OP, you got that right - similar here, buyer been messing around for month, now we've been 'close to exchange' since mid-July! It seems we are making some very sloew progress, but there is a delay at every.single.little.step - and i've no way of knowing if it's the lender or the buyer himself that keep draging it out. My vendors are on rightmove as they got fed up with promises, though I hope I stll have a chance.
Stress going on for about 6 months now, but especially the last two, I sympathise! Just when are they going to change the system?

We are very close to going back on rightmove. Or quitting. Can't decide which

Once you have exchanged the stress gets better but it’s awful getting to that point

Give them an ultimatum? Exchange or you'll go back on the market.

@flashbac this is exactly what we have done today and mean every word of it! Interestingly I keep being alerted by Rightmove of houses coming back on the market. I wonder whether more chains are breaking down at the moment compared to less heated times.

Absolutely nothing like ours on the market so its not like we are flooded with competition. I think we would get more for it now if we relisted.

It's awful! The waiting and not knowing if things are moving is the worst.

We sold and bought at the end of May and we are just waiting for my buyers help to buy ISAa statements to be sent and we are good to go, but they have been saying that for a week. We thought we would be moving this week but just had an email to say that won't be possible so next week is looking more likely!

@BertieTheBungalow ditto! Every week is THE WEEK and also NOT THE WEEK. I could cry.

We sold our house Nov 2020. We have still not exchanged let alone completed. We were expecting to exchange in March when an issue with the property our buyer was selling came up and it’s just dragged on and on. We lost the house we were buying so had to find another and we feel like idiots for sticking with our buyer for fear of not selling again.

If we don’t complete by the end of September we will have to pay out stamp duty. I will be really pissed off then as that’s my daughters new beds and room decorations we’re just pissing away for something that wasn’t our fault.