Meet the Other Phone. Flexible and made to last.

Meet the Other Phone.
Flexible and made to last.

Buy now

Please or to access all these features

Property/DIY

Join our Property forum for renovation, DIY, and house selling advice.

How long are we supposed to wait?

3 replies

Lola889 · 17/06/2022 12:15

Just after a little advice about what is normal. We accepted an offer on our house 9 weeks ago - a fair bit below what we wanted as the buyers are first time buyers, so thought it would be nice and easy, as we’re not actually purchasing out next property just yet.
about 3 weeks ago we asked our solicitors for an update and the buyers were about to commence searches.
Last week we had an email update from our estate agent saying the draft contracts had just been sent. So we asked our estate agents to chase up both solicitors to check what’s happening as we thought we would be further along by now. Yesterday the estate agents got back to us to say that the buyers solicitors had closed the file as they cannot get hold of the buyers.
later that day the estate agents managed to get hold of the buyers who said they still wanted the house, and would fill in some paper work soon as they had been busy working away.
So as far as I can tell nothing at all has been done in 9 weeks 😨we’re waiting for further updates today, but I’ve a really bad feeling about this. This isn’t normal is it? Tia.

OP posts:
TheotherMissHoolie · 17/06/2022 12:34

No, that's not normal. Your buyers are not committed. Put it back on the market!

NoParticularPattern · 17/06/2022 12:45

I’d have put it back on the market the moment their solicitor said they couldn’t get hold of them. What a very strange thing to do- offer on someone’s house but then just ghost everyone?!

Lola889 · 17/06/2022 13:03

Thank you. We only found out all of this yesterday, as we thought they were happily plodding along with searches, but clearly not. I agree we should put it back on the market too. Seems madness, my dh works away all the time, but can still manage to answer calls and emails. Something seems totally wrong to me.

OP posts:
New posts on this thread. Refresh page
Swipe left for the next trending thread