Waiting for exchange

40somethingx · 2022-06-29T11:48:35+00:00

After putting an offer in on a house in December! Today is the day we are supposed to exchange! Three exchange deadlines missed (due to our buyers solicitor) so Im feeling uneasy! Our selling is ready to pull out if this doesnt happen today! Fingers and toes crossed! Its just excruciating waiting!

Minimalme · 29/06/2022 13:02

I am also waiting...it is truly bloody awful isn't it?

Hope it happens for you today!

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40somethingx · 29/06/2022 13:09

The absolute worst!

Are you waiting to exchange today?

Its such a massive thing!

The buyers solicitor is a knob so I will be surprised if it does happen seeing as hes let us down 3 times, but we have just heard hes "still on track for today" 🤔

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40somethingx · 29/06/2022 15:04

Cant see it happening now its 3pm! God I could swing for our buyers solicitor!!

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itbemay · 29/06/2022 15:58

We exchanged at 4.45 on a Thursday and completed the next day so don't give up just yet. Fingers crossed for you

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40somethingx · 29/06/2022 16:10

We got told not long ago the exchange process has started 🙌

I just hope that means it will get finished today or do they run over to the next day? There is our buyer us the man we are buying from then his new home which is a new build!

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NoWordForFluffy · 29/06/2022 16:31

At least if it's started, your buyer has exchanged! It's literally a 5 minute phone call, so can be done quickly.

Minimalme · 29/06/2022 16:49

That sounds very hopeful op! We were meant to exchange and complete on Tuesday and now we are in limbo again...

We put our house on the market in October. It is hard to keep hopeful really.

thelonggame · 29/06/2022 17:57

I just got told at 4.30 today we had exchanged, completing tomorrow.
So it can happen late in the day.
Good luck with it all, if it's any concelation I've been waiting since early September and tomorrow was my deadline to pull out.

ItsNotPlopItsPete · 29/06/2022 18:27

Waiting here also, I feel your pain OP! Hoping for this week but almost certain it won't happen, our vendors solicitor is so slow...as is our vendor but don't get me started

OttilieKnackered · 29/06/2022 18:34

I’m a few weeks out (I hope) from exchange (doing surveys etc atm).

Is anyone a solicitor and can explain what would stop an exchange? Surely it is the solicitor’s job to make sure it’s all in order ready for the agreed date.

Isn’t most conveyancing pretty routine?

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40somethingx · 30/06/2022 10:18

In short our buyers solicitor is a KNOB he has given 3 previous exchange dates then either been out the office or on holiday! I HATE HIM!

I said yesterday if its not done Im out and staying in my house and extending!!

Well well well it happend 445pm yesterday!!

To say I am ecstatic is an understatement!!!!!

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BlueMongoose · 30/06/2022 12:38

Good news. Goos luck with the move!

SpaceyCake · 30/06/2022 13:34

Ahh excellent news! Congratulations!

I think I should be joining this thread but I don't want to jinx it. We've been on this long and very complicated selling/buying journey for a year now with two failed sales and one failed purchase, so I'm not exactly hopeful that this time would be any different. However, our sales Progressor said that we should be able to exchange next week-ish and I'm so so nervous! There are still a few things the buyer's solicitors are working on, but I think most enquiries have been answered and mortgage offer issued etc. I would be over the moon if we could just get over this hurdle but I have a feeling that something will come up and things will go downhill. 💩

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40somethingx · 30/06/2022 14:57

BlueMongoose · 30/06/2022 12:38

Good news. Goos luck with the move!

Thank you x

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40somethingx · 30/06/2022 15:00

SpaceyCake · 30/06/2022 13:34

Ahh excellent news! Congratulations!

I think I should be joining this thread but I don't want to jinx it. We've been on this long and very complicated selling/buying journey for a year now with two failed sales and one failed purchase, so I'm not exactly hopeful that this time would be any different. However, our sales Progressor said that we should be able to exchange next week-ish and I'm so so nervous! There are still a few things the buyer's solicitors are working on, but I think most enquiries have been answered and mortgage offer issued etc. I would be over the moon if we could just get over this hurdle but I have a feeling that something will come up and things will go downhill. 💩

Bless you I feel your pain! Its been such a long time for us too, lost 2 buyers 3rd buyers solicitor is a bell end, but we got there in the end!

We also had a last minute survey on our house we have been royally pissed about!

If searches are back and enquiries answered it shouldnt be long! x

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Bubbles456 · 30/06/2022 15:49

Also waiting to exchange soon, having waited weeks and weeks with many missed dates and deadlines having gone by. It is completely excruciating waiting and waiting with little to no communication from any other parties.

Minimalme · 30/06/2022 19:47

That's wonderful news op!

I made dh talk about what we would do if our sale/purchase fell through because the tension is destroying me. My head is wrecked with waiting.

Sorry others on this thread are also in property purgatory

I am hoping to hear about a new exchange date next week but it all depends on outstanding enquiries getting answers.

I literally don't give a rats ass if there is a covenant on the property or if we have to invite the town cryer for Xmas dinner every year, I just want to fucking move.

mrsed1987 · 30/06/2022 20:23

Eurgh I'm also on the roller coaster. We want to exchange next week and complete on the 15th but our solicitor is next to useless so I'm really worried it won't happen 😢

Minimalme · 30/06/2022 21:09

Our whole house system is useless! DH was saying that in Australia they enter into a contract and it is all done in 30 days (or some such).

My move has so far taken as long as a baby takes to grow from an egg to first breath.

Wtaf

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40somethingx · 01/07/2022 08:54

Minimalme · 30/06/2022 19:47

That's wonderful news op!

I made dh talk about what we would do if our sale/purchase fell through because the tension is destroying me. My head is wrecked with waiting.

Sorry others on this thread are also in property purgatory

I am hoping to hear about a new exchange date next week but it all depends on outstanding enquiries getting answers.

I literally don't give a rats ass if there is a covenant on the property or if we have to invite the town cryer for Xmas dinner every year, I just want to fucking move.

Isnt it am absolute ball ache!!

Ive never known stress like it!!

Please come back and let us know when you have exchanged xx

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40somethingx · 01/07/2022 08:55

mrsed1987 · 30/06/2022 20:23

Eurgh I'm also on the roller coaster. We want to exchange next week and complete on the 15th but our solicitor is next to useless so I'm really worried it won't happen 😢

Keep the faith even though its so bloody hard! x

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40somethingx · 01/07/2022 08:56

Minimalme · 30/06/2022 21:09

Our whole house system is useless! DH was saying that in Australia they enter into a contract and it is all done in 30 days (or some such).

My move has so far taken as long as a baby takes to grow from an egg to first breath.

Wtaf

Yep ours is the same amount of time ha ha!!!!

The whole process needs a overhaul!

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ThatsNotMyMuffin · 01/07/2022 10:16

Waiting here too... Also buyers solicitors completely useless 😫

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40somethingx · 01/07/2022 12:45

ThatsNotMyMuffin · 01/07/2022 10:16

Waiting here too... Also buyers solicitors completely useless 😫

Some solicitors really are horrors! Ours have been AMAZING! But our buyers and our sellers solicitors have been a joke x

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