Waiting. Waiting. Losing my mind waiting.

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Accepted an offer early Feb. Had an offer accepted early March. Trying to exchange and have been convinced that 'this is the week' for about three weeks now. Our vendors are top of the chain but there's about seven of us in it and I think the lower chain are causing completion date ructions. EA and I are bezzies by now and I am obsessively refreshing my emails to see if she's managed to get hold of the person in the chain who's making a decision to break (or not). I'm moving areas so need to do in year school transfers, one of my kids has additional needs, so I need to get an EHCP ported over, I'm about to start a new job and want to try and get as much of this stuff sorted before we move as possible and OMG - I've been planning this move for about 18 months now and I just want to GET. ON. WITH. IT!

I think that's really fast. Waiting is the worst though so I do sympathise, my no chain purchase took 5 months so yours is very quick in a chain of 7! Hope you get a date soon.

Thanks for the sympathy - but 5 months to exchange?! Yikes. It'll be 5 months from offer to completion if we get the date we're expecting and that's quite long enough for me!

The chain was only completed early March and there’s 7 in it! You’re totally unrealistic. It took us 16 weeks with 3 people (2 properties) in the chain - ftb, us, couple moving to parents while waiting for new build. I nearly lost it multiple times - the incompetence of our seller’s solicitor was beyond anything you could imagine.

Are you looking to exchange this month and complete in July? We exchanged then completed 5 days later. But yes it took from beginning of October to end of Feb.

Pretty sure a chain of seven exchanging and completing in two months would be setting some kind of record! That's incredibly fast. I'd be amazed if it didn't end up being double that. We had a chain of three and ours was a cash buyer and it still took 4 months+. Plus, if you apply too much pressure to get everyone to stick to an unrealistic timeline, people might pull out and you'll be back to square one.

Sorry, you are (understandably) very optimistic. If anyone in the chain is buying or selling a flat it takes even longer as there are so many queries.

Jeez Louise! That’s not even a long time. I think your expectations are a bit high.

If it makes you feel any better/worse. I accepted an offer on mine in Dec, many offers/best and final later we had an offer on a purchase accepted Feb, our buyer pulled out March, accepted another offer the next week, second buyers buyer pulled out last week, our seller got fed up of waiting and relisted the property we’d had a structural survey, searches etc… on. Now we’ve relisted this week in the vein hope we will sell to a cash/FTB and we will still get the onwards purchase we’ve spend best part of a grand on.

Long story short, I’ve been SSTC since Dec 4th and I’m still at square one. You’re doing a lot better than me!

You had an offer accepted barely 2 months ago and you've been hoping to exchange for the last 3 weeks?! Bloody hell, that's lightning speed!! I think 5 months is fairly normal at present, and will be amazing with a chain of 7.

We're in month 7 now, we're waiting for a judge in the courts to issue something or other for our vendors and nobody can tell us when that will be 😭😭😭

We're having to move in to a rental so we don't lose our buyers and I'm so frustrated/angry/upset about it all!

Just to say that when I moved I couldn't apply for schools in our new area until we had moved.

I got our solicitor to write a letter to the LA to say we owned the house and it was our only residence.

That is quicker than our situation! Hope you complete soon OP.

Waiting is excruciating. We accepted an offer in November. Had an offer accepted in January. We had to let our buyer go as he was just stringing us along. We have new buyers now. Chain of 4 finally complete by April. Now we wait. Hopefully we can exchange & complete within the next 3 months.

No advice but gosh it is a different ball game! I bought and sold 4 times between the late nineties and 2011 and each time it took 6 weeks! I feel for house hunters and sellers in todays market.

Good luck OP!

We took 12 weeks last year in a chain of 3 with FTB one end and rental the other and still thought that was pretty quick!

Still waiting to exchange. I hate people.

I think you've set your expectations very high!

We accepted an offer from cash buyers in March, and had our offer accepted on a property the same week. Our vendors already own the house they are moving to. So we are the only couple both selling and buying. I'm hoping we will be in by the end of June but wouldn't bet on it.

It's hell - I waited and waited and waited when I was buying. I asked my solicitor to chase something up for me and she said she would charge me for doing it. It simply involved ringing the other solicitor up.

What she actually said was that she would diary it to ring the person each week and charge me for it - each b**y week! - I had already been waiting months!

They have no sense of urgency - once you have signed up with them they just put their feet up. I was buying a new build and I had the builder on my back (quite rightly - he had others queuing up to buy it) - I was between a rock and a hard place, and moving shortly after my OH's death - solicitor just did not care about my situation.

How to find a good solicitor? - gawd knows.