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.

Meant to add, there are 6 people in our chain which makes me twitchy in itself

Spoke to my solicitor today.
My sale is well on the way to completion, sent some info over last week ref estate management, so once that's ok'd sale is all go.
Purchase, searches are due back next week and then enquiries can be sent.

He didn't want to give a guess just incase our buyer has issue with the estate stuff or the searches throw anything up.

I really hope it happens by the end of October.

I’ve emailed my solicitor this morning for an update. Hope our searches are back and enquiries with the vendor rather than searches not even being back yet 🤞🏻

Ours took 6 months.
My sister is 8/9 months in and still chasing it.

I've emailed our solicitor today to try and hurry things along . With the country on its arse I'm worried the bank will pull their offer .

We accepted an offer on 9th July. They've only just paid for the searches. I'm not impressed!!

we exchanged today; moving tomorrow

What? I offered on somewhere and had a surveyor in within 4 days . Where are you

Congratulations! I literally cannot wait until it is me posting those words!

Our solicitor confirmed our searches are back and they are still waiting for vendors solicitor to respond with answers to the enquiries raised, which has now been chased again. Once they’re back, solicitor will send us the contracts to sign.

South West England.

We had to wait 3.5 weeks for a surveyor to be available earlier this year.

Our survey was ordered when we applied for our mortgage and they turned up about a week later - East Anglia here

We're also in the south west, but quite high up, edging towards Cotswolds, and we had a 4 week delay on surveyors too.

The surveyor who came to do our current house (Homebuyer's) said he was booked up for a month (we're in Cornwall) and the 6 week delay was in Devon. (Full survey)

Also Cornwall and managed to get a surveyor booked within a week, but that was because the house was empty so no need to negotiate with the occupants or whoever. If only the rest of my purchase was so speedy. No further news here. If nothing by Friday I’m going to ring around and try to get things moving. Getting ridiculous now.

We're now a month further on from my previous post. Still not much closer. Solicitors have been arguing for 1.5 months over who has to do the TP1 (transfer of part, seller is retaining a small part of the garden as she's moving into a lodge next door and has extended into the main garden). Not helped by our solicitor just not communicating with us at all. I find out more from the vendor as she forwarded me the emails between our solicitors. Not impressed.

Today we had a bit of a breakthrough and seller's solicitor is sorting it. Hopefully mortgage companies are still okay and our offers won't get pulled! Bit worried about it. (Regular purchase mortgage + let to buy as we couldn't sell our current home and are going to rent it out)

I'm so fed up with it all. Just want to move now. We offered (and got accepted the next day) in March! It's one transaction, seller already owns her property and we're not selling ours.

I hate solicitors.

Oh and our surveyor also had about a 6 week waiting list - specialist in historic buildings. But we made our solicitor do the searches without waiting for the survey as we didn't want to hold the process up.

My offer was accepted on 19 March. My deposit and mortgage drawdown are now with my solicitor, so I will exchange tomorrow and complete on Friday (when my extended 5yr 1.99% mortgage offer expires) so it will have taken just over 6 months.

My previous attempted purchase collapsed after 7 months of conveyancing when my vendor changed her mind, so I've really been through it getting to this point.

@Starseeking I’ve been following your sorry tale for months. I’ll raise a glass to you on Friday - fingers crossed all goes smoothly tomorrow.

No news from me.

Tomorrow starseeking. Well done and I hope it all goes well.

Just over a year so far …

Good luck @Starseeking ! Hope everything goes well.

Asking for a new shed roof is crazy!

15 weeks from our offer being accepted to exchange. Middle of the chain of three (accepted our buyer's offer three weeks before our offer on purchase was accepted).

Best of luck @Starseeking !

@dubyalass

I am in an extremely similar situation, even thought I was reading my own story 😂
Title issue, also spotted by myself, still can't believe the owner didn't know the property was not under his name:)

Offer accepted in early may, I found issue soon afterwards then seller's solicitor was trying to reach land registry, LR didn't response until end of June...

At the end it took LR 3 months to correct the title. Got documents in the beginning of sep. Then I ordered search.

So, nearly 5 month passed, I don't know if I will be able to move in before Xmas... That's sounds like a luxury wish 😵