How long has your house purchase taken [so far]??

[dubyalass]

I had an offer accepted in mid-June; no chain. I've had my mortgage offer through and the survey done. There is an issue with ownership of an outbuilding so the vendors are sorting that out with the Land Registry. Searches not done yet but unlikely to be anything tricky there.

I'm hoping that I might be in by the end of October but realistically who knows. I've no idea how long the LR are taking to process casework at the moment. Once that's sorted it should all be pretty quick.

We have now been reported to and are wading through the mountain of paperwork and starting to discuss completion dates. What is truly nuts though is that the EA has just said the sellers "need the completion date for their onward purchase" after spending the past 8 weeks going on about how they were breaking the chain for us.

We have gone back and said in principle the date they have proposed works for us but we had no idea we were in a chain! (We're FTBs and they were supposedly going into rented...)

I feel like there's loads of us at the same point, just waiting for solicitors to get themselves sorted. Fingers crossed for movement for us all soon!!!!

I've spoken to my solicitor today and she's checked enquiries and was drafting an email, but hadn't sent it as "multitasking" good practice to admit that!

Apparently the land registry issue isn't resolved and that's causing an issue on enquiries, so I've called the EA and asked them if there is anything they can do regarding vendors solicitor about it and she's going to call them and get back to me.

Not a peep out of anyone here. I’m on holiday and I think the EA has taken this to mean “no need to chase anything this week”. I’m sick of the bloody lot of them.

Shock update from our EA today - the septic tank issue at the top of chain is resolved and everyone supposedly wants to exchange this Friday with completion Friday 28th

I’ll believe it when Friday gets here and it actually happens, but still I’m very surprised to get that call today.

Congratulations (I hope) @movingonup2022!

Thanks @sicklycolleague , not telling anyone except this thread through fear of jinxing things

I have everything crossed for you @movingonup2022

Fingers crossed for you! How exciting!

No news from me. Nothing else I want to view coming on. Am resigning myself to this purchase falling through shortly.

Fingers crossed for movingonup. And also for everyone else for any barriers to fall away.

Apparently our sellers want to exchange ASAP which is great - so it's on us this week to sign all the paperwork and pay our solicitor the exchange deposit. And send her proof of deposit funds.

**source of funds

Hope all goes well @movingonup2022

our survey has been booked but not for 2.5 weeks so continue to twiddle our thumbs!

I've got a feeling we've lost the stamp duty reduction ( zero progress this week )
14 weeks and counting and no chain either side ... I'm so fucked off

Exchanged. Finally!

WELL DONE Walkermiss. That's such good news after all the ups and downs!

Thank you FuzzyPuffling. I'm still in shock. We sent an email to our solicitor this morning saying if it didn't happen by tomorrow, we will have to reconsider our sale. Got a call at 3.15 and had exchanged 15 minutes later! Just like that.

Hoping you get good news soon.

Congratulations @Walkermiss! when do you move?

Thank you sicklycolleague. A week tomorrow.

I've had some good news too - the title issue is apparently resolved and headed to the Land Registry. Vendors talking about completion dates in mid November. I might be in before Christmas after all! Though I'm sure something else will crop up before then.

Good news indeed dubyalass. Here's hoping it all speeds up and is a home run for you now.

Started looking july 2021
Sold ours July, buyer pulled out oct
offered on several houses
New Sale of ours accepted Jan 2022
Offer accepted on purchase Jan 2022
May vendor pulled out, not selling
May another offer on purchase accepted
July vendor pulled out
August offer accepted
No paperwork for anything done to the house, building regs etc. seeking regularisation. Ongoing.

baby due feb!

Thanks @FuzzyPuffling , it would be great if it was plain sailing from here on, but I daren't get my hopes up!

@Curlyfifteen you must be wondering why you're bothering! What a nightmare.

That’s exciting @dubyalass! my current roadblock is DP who is so slow at signing paperwork 😭

@Curlyfifteen that’s such rotten luck! Hope it goes smoothly for you now

Today I will be most invoking the support of St Anne for resolutions to everyone's issues! Get to it, St Anne.

I too, am waiting......

I am about ready to pull out of a sale to avoid a nervous breakdown. My buyer’s sale has fallen through twice, and they then claimed to be getting bridging finance. That took another 6 weeks (after the already extended deadline of end of Aug completely fell apart) and now they are claiming the solicitor says it will be very complicated to process and would take another month but hey, surprise, they’ve found another buyer who just needs their mortgage and then could complete immediately! So they’re abandoning the bridging.

Now, I understand of course they’ve been searching desperately for a buyer to minimise length of bridging but I feel they’ve lied all the way through and I am just … broken at the thought of giving them any more time to lie and manipulate things to their own timescale.

We don’t absolutely have to move and the only thing stopping me from saying get stuffed to them, is the thought of letting down the vendors of the new house. I am no longer as in love with the new house, and am concerned about buying at the peak of the market. All in all, it’s making me ill. I’m a single parent, so nobody to talk it through with and share the load 😥