We've just found our dream home six months ahead of our planned move schedule.

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Just wondering if anyone has faced a similar situation? We were planning to put the house on the market early next year, but an idle Rightmove search this afternoon has shown us a new listing of our dream home. We have a viewing booked, but need to get our home listed. An AIP secured. It would be a scramble, but we're willing to do it if we can.

I'd love to hear success stories of a similar scramble to secure your house. This would be our forever home, we're willing to put the hard graft in to make it work.

Me!
We weren’t seriously looking when the perfect house, in budget (very rare, first I’d seen in 2 years) popped up.

We weren’t even on the market. We viewed, offered and they said they will accept when we’ve sold. We made a further offer with 5k more and asked for a 2 week grace period. They accepted it and we were under offer within that time frame but our buyers still needed to sell. Our vendors gave us a further 2 week grace period and our buyers managed to sell.

Took almost 6 months as bottom of
chain collapsed but we did get it!

Wow, that's great, congratulations on making it happen! I hope we can manage something similar. 🤞

Me too. I saw a house earlier this year and viewed it, didn't offer but put mine up for sale straight away and it sold in 10 days but then the one I wanted to buy sold the day before mine. I was pretty gutted but then the EA rang me a month later to say the buyers had pulled out and would I like to offer, so I did and am moving on Friday. Houses in my particular area usually sell quickly and luckily I had a cash buyer and it has been a very smooth 9 week process from offer to completion.

No help here. We found our dream home in Cyprus about 6 years too early. Undoable for so many reasons but it literally ticks all the boxes.

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/137104913?currencyCode=GBP#/?channel=OVERSEAS

if anyone fancies buying it for me I will be your best friend forever

We did.
Saw "the" house - even though it's in the wrong place, too over looked for DH, and a smaller garden than we'd have liked.....
Our house was on the market 3 days later. Sold that weekend. Offer accepted.
4 weeks in, our buyer dropped out.
We kept with the purchase, and ended up with 2 houses for a short while, which was very, very stressful. It's all worked out in the end.

We waited for the house we wanted to come onto the market and, when it did, we viewed it immediately (along with 2-3 others), put our house on the market, sold within a few days, had to submit a best and final offer as someone else was offering on the one we wanted to buy

managed to secure it but our buyer pulled out a few weeks later, sold again and, after months of stress, moved in !

a dream come true but that was 11 years ago and we’re ready to move again HAHA

We were planning to move next year. Had a look on Rightmove and my husband found a big project property on a beautiful plot. Ended up falling in love with it and quickly got our house ready to be put on the market. Put ours on the market in April, it sold in June and we’re now just waiting for searches/survey to come back etc.

If you can afford it go for it, it will only make you think what if if not ☺️

Just going through this myself. We sold off market through the same estate agents as the house we wanted to buy. It's now on Rightmove but listed as sold STC so that the estate agents can capture any more interested buyers to fall back on should our buyers pull out. I'd recommend going off market route with an agent as they'll have loads of buyers who have recently missed out or been outbid on properties, plus it's really quick

Your stories are making me feel like this is possible and not a crazy pipe-dream!

Just also be aware it’s hard to sell at the moment. We listed our recently renovated house in a popular area for a fair price and it’s not sold since march. We’ve taken it off the market and stopped looking now.

Us! Dream house which sold in the January and came back on last June. We weren't quite financially ready to move but my friend encouraged us to view it, knowing it would take at least six months to go through. We viewed on the Friday, had our house valued the Monday, first view Tuesday offered asking price and we moved 6 months and four days after offer accepted. I still can't believe we got it!!

That's intensely frustrating, and definitely something to be aware of. I've emailed a local EA asking for their opinion- we'd already planned to use them next year so we'll see what they say.

I'd love to read more success stories!

Happened to us last year! Luckily we lived in a place I bought before I met DH and we planned to rent it out so it was about a year too early and the deposit about 30% less than planned.

Luckily part of the appeal was that the house was significantly cheaper than we expected so that made it worth the jump. We had to secure a 95% mortgage and release some equity from mine AND set it up as a BTL to get the house and at the time thought it was a horrible interest rate. A year later we are DELIGHTED with the interest rate and SO glad we moved as it means we are in a house we intend to stay in longer term so don’t have to worry about a price crash OR the interest rates for a few years. If we’d have waited til this year, we would have had to decrease budget due to interest rates

DP and I were considering moving in together and went to look at a couple of houses as neither of ours was really . We viewed our current house in June and decided we wanted to buy it but neither of our houses was ready to go on the market and he couldn’t sell his house till his divorce was finalised so we had to negotiate a second mortgage to top up the shortfall after my house was sold.

I eventually got my house on the market mid August, found a buyer in September, and moved in at the end of January. DP’s sale went through in the August.

It can be done with a bit of luck so I hope some of it comes your way 🍀

Yes I did that. Now sat in the dream house 5 years later. Good luck!

Yes - two years ago. Just got promoted and was scrolling right move daydreaming and this little beauty was on. It’s a street that I had loved for twenty years! Viewed it - loved it - out my house on that weekend and managed to pull it off.

two years later and I am delighted - it was stressful and I got a bit carried away on the bidding. But I got it😊.

Funnily enough, we viewed a house on a whim as it was cheap but had good space. Didn't end up going for it for various reasons, but it sparked a fire to go look at more. Found one we liked, so we put ours on the market. Ours sold with a few days, so we put in an offer on the other house. Didn't work out, so we had to scramble to find another house when stock was low!

Our current home had been under offer but popped back up as the buyer couldn't afford the mortgage. Viewed it the following day it was relisted, then sat outside in the car and put an asking price offer in.

We've been here just over five years and it's amazing (apart from the neighbours but that's a whole other story).