How long did your (recent) conveyancing take?

[mindutopia]

If you have had conveyancing done in the past few months, how long did the process take from when you instructed your solicitor to when everything was done and contracts ready to exchange?

Our only other experience has been during the first lockdown (it took 5 months and then vendors changed their mind and decided not to sell at the 11th hour!). We had an offer accepted 3 weeks ago, mortgage valuation is done and I'd expect formal mortgage offer to come through shortly. We are in rented and vendors are moving into their 2nd home until they find a new place. We would like to be in by the start of the school term in January (first week of). I'm feeling it's possible this could be realistic as we aren't in a chain? It would be about 11/12 weeks from offer.

10 weeks from offer to completion. Searches in our area are turned around in about 5 days which helped, as did the fact that the 3 houses in the chain were all marked by the same estate agent who was very proactive.

@MyMabel

How’s this thread has made me sweat. We’ve accepted an offer end of July, roughly 13 weeks ago now. To be fair the solicitors are being really slow and took weeks to get any paperwork. - our only issue is our new build won’t be ready until at least January, which I understand is a long old wait for our buyers. They’re buying to rent too so I’m not sure how long they’ll be willing to wait.

There’s absolutely nothing around to short term rent and family don’t have houses big enough to keep us sheltered for a month or three. I have no idea what to do but I really need the buyers to not pull out.

We're in this position except our house won't be ready until July!!

Absolutely no rentals at all so no idea what we'll do once things start moving, we can't afford for the buyers to back out so darent tell them we have no where to go yet as we need to exchange by the end of November!! They'll want to move in by December no doubt arghhhhh

Twenty weeks in and still waiting 😕

18 weeks and still waiting, in a chain of three with no mortgages and an empty house at the top of the chain.

Painfully slow, reams of ridiculous questions, and still we wait.

16 weeks from offer to completion. The local searches took about 5 weeks.

4 mths for us, chain of 4, all purchasing cash from sale.

Twice now we've had our exchange date fail last week and again today, seriously fed up at 22 weeks

Selling - nearly 5 months 😤

Buying -2.5 months, with cash and no chain! Searches took forever

Offered early June completed early august
Very short chain of two properties
No complications except slowish turnaround on searches

Ha, I just came back to respond to this and remembered it was me who asked the question! I’m literally that poster asking about the pram. 😂

Anyway, for anyone who would like to know, it took about 7 weeks. We exchanged in early December. 👍🏼

@mindutopia hahaha! I loved that thread re the pram! I just clinked on this to respond to the original question and then saw that I already had!

5/6 months complying end of last feb. No chains

3/4 months just completed there 2 weeks ago, cash buyer and no chains. Annoying downtime over Christmas