Buyers/Sellers Exchange waiting room new thread

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I noticed the last one was full, so here we go!

Hello to the newcomers and welcome back to those who are still working their way through the joys of house buying/selling.

We changed broker after the one word email reply. I sent a carefully worded email explaining we had decided to use someone else, but thanks for all the help. They didn't even reply!
Another, after over a week of IT problems said they'd call the next day and we never heard from them again.
So frustrating, things are so stressful as it is, I would like some reassuring formality and pernickityness.

@hexsnidgett Not 'yes, you are old', 'yes, you are correct'! 😂

My low point was the completion statement coming through accompanied by an informal email note with typos - I became convinced it must have been a scam email and ended up exercising so much caution when I sent the funds that I think they thought I was mildly insane.

@Wednesdayonline hopefully they're like you. What's making me anxious is that they've already been again a few weeks ago...why come again?

Wow lots of progress for everyone in the last day or two. Great news!

I rang the solicitors after instructing them a week ago and hearing nothing. They didn't seem to have a clue who I was but then Conveniently I was 'next in their pile' and then they rang me twice within an hour of our initial phone call, once to ask if I was a first time buyer and the other time to see if I was miss or Mrs. Both things they should have known. I'm not filled with confidence to be honest!

Those of you who had surveys done, did you wait for your mortgage offer to come through first?

@TFMinx My solicitor advised I made a pre exchange visit, I think it’s standard advice. We only visited a few weeks ago too. I couldn’t in the end due to a family emergency but I would have done if I could, it’s always nice to have another look! My buyers did the same and I posted on the old thread about it then. Everyone said it’s normal and that it was about checking everything is unchanged since last viewing and not about potential price reductions. I was worried as we’d moved out since they last saw it and the house was empty and it was February but it was all fine.

Our agents proved their worth today. Weird email from buyer has been resolved- they were basically taking Rightmove floor plans as gospel (rather than a guide). Phew.

On a previous house sale, we exchanged and our buyer then wanted a pre completion visit to “check everything”. We strongly suspected he was hoping to knock money off at that point, as he’d been a bit of a dick in the proceeding weeks. Our solicitor took great delight in telling them that they wouldn’t be having a pre completion viewing and that by exchanging they were legally bound to buy the house as it was anyway. 🤣

Any update?

Our chain has collapsed! Our buyer's buyer has pulled out at the eleventh hour just before we were due to exchange. We've heard from our seller's EA that they may not be prepared to wait either. I could cry. Apparently our buyer still wants our house, but even if they find a buyer for theirs tomorrow, we've still got a twelve week wait at the least. I'm so cross and upset

This just happened to us, it was our buyer. I did cry, lots!! Really feel for you it's awful. We sold again really quickly and for more but we should have been completing next week

@BungalowBuyer Nope. But then the sellers seem to be taking their time to respond to anything- even when we made an offer.

@onthefence23 it's awful, and there's absolutely nothing we can do about it. We're on holiday at the moment and it really put a damper on the day

Ah bless you @TFMinx I was honestly gutted and so wa sDH, we had started packing it's exhausting to start over

@onthefence23 we've taken the climbing frame down and emptied the loft. And we've just seen the house we were purchasing has been relisted! Bastards! (Sorry) surely a courtesy call from the EA wouldn't have gone amiss?

@TFMinx sorry to hear :(

@Wednesdayonline thank you. We're both gutted. Why would they do it without at least letting us know?! This system sucks!

Jumping back in. We've been selling since November and after two time wasting buyers (neither had the salary to get the mortgage they needed), we're on buyers number 3. Things are finally progressing enough that I feel like this one might actually happen. I'm still too nervous to actually pack but we're at the end of enquires.

Last week a colleague in a different department called me while surrounded by boxes and said her sale fell through that day. She was due to exchange and complete the day after. Everything in her house was packed. I was stunned and although we did both the same day last time, I want time between exchange and completion now . She had cash buyers and was moving into a new build by a small developer. The developer put their house back on the market the day it fell through and said they didn't want to wait for her to sell again. The conveyancing process is an absolute shit show in England

Finally able to join this thread! Our house was on the market for 2.5 months, accepted offer on Monday and got the offer accepted on the house we’re buying on Wednesday. Have sorted survey and waiting on response from solicitor. Our house is still showing as for sale on Rightmove so assuming they haven’t sent all they need to for it to show as under offer.

The house we’re buying is a probate sale and end of the chain but still expecting a long wait and things to take time.

I'm the same, I want at least a week between them! We weren't quite at exchange and complete when ours collapsed but it was imminent.

Anyone else finds it takes the shine off the weekends a bit... can't help feeling like it's two more days of no news

Definitely agree about weekends, we're so close, just need my ongoing purchase solicitors to agree the completion date and confirm they're ready and we can complete next week. So close and now no news until at least Monday.

We'll have at least two weeks between exchange and completion. DP had a failed exchange on his house (issue with land registry) so I would never to exchange and completion on the same day, luckily he was moving in with me.

I'm joining in rather than lurking! We are buying and selling, offer accepted on purchase 22nd April and we are now towards the end of enquiries but I still haven't seen a building regs certificate. The seller ticked the box saying no issue with building consent but have no idea. This could be a big thing for us!
Otherwise we are hoping to complete within a month. Eek! That's so much time for something to go wrong.
On another note I am trying to deep clean the house around things (we are getting packing) but the garden is determined to be weedy, everytime I turn my back its grown again!

What work have they had done? Do you know how long ago?

They had a wrap around extension under planning permission in 2003. I know its outside the 10 year rule but to me it seems worrying! Why wouldn't you get it signed off unless you bodged it? So an indemnity isn't something we'd necessarily be ok with. Has anyone any advice?

@SJ89SJ What about having a structural survey?

The bungalow we're buying has an extension without planning or building regs, but it's been up probably 50 years.

We had a level 2 survey, I think we should have had a 3 but there were no signs of anything being wrong. I'm just surprised we've got to the point of enquiries before realising they may not have it. All the boxes about any issues with planning or building consent are ticked as no. Annoying. It's stood 20 years so I know what you mean, really if there was something badly wrong surely it would have happened by now!