How many months is an unreasonable amount of time after an offer is accepted on a house to not have received a PIF or for the vendor to have sent draft contracts out?

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Our house sale by contrast is practically done. It’s all waiting on the slow vendor and their slow solicitors. It’s doing my head in. Difficult to plan for things. Offer accepted early July.

Ooh that is a long time to still be waiting for the draft contract pack.

Is there an onward chain? Perhaps your seller's haven't found a property to buy and have asked their solicitor not to start work until the chain is complete.

Perhaps the sellers' haven't formally instructed a firm of solicitors to act for them.

Perhaps the sellers haven't sent back completed paperwork, such as the Fixtures & Contents form, Property Information form etc.

Or maybe they haven't send their ID documents yet.

I think you should contact the EA and get them to chase the sellers to find out what the hold up is. Hopefully the EA can give them a push in the right direction.

We had a similar problem. We are first time buyers buying an empty house. Offer accepted first week of June and didn't receive fixture and fittings/property information for 14 weeks. I basically had to threaten to pull out if we didn't find out what the hold up was. I was calling my solicitors and the eastae agent constantly but no one had any answers.

Anyway it turned out that the seller instructed her solicitor but the solicitor retired and they 'forgot' to assign someone else her case. My seller didn't bother contacting her solicitor even though she hadn't received any forms to fill in or had any contact from them, so they just forgot about her case.

Absolute shambles. I literally begged the estate agents to call her and find out what was going on but they just kept making excuses. Pike I said, I threatened to pull out and got the property information forms ect a week later.

We have had endless problems and We are still no where near exchange. If it wasn't for the house being perfect and cheap, we'd have pulled out ages ago.

What has your solicitor and estate agent said? Is there a chain?