I really need to sound off here. So you may have seen my post a while ago that our house we're buying was revealed to be leasehold after weeks of delay from the sellers getting paperwork sorted. All advertised as a freehold and we were naive not checking this ourselves beforehand we just took the advert at face value.
We asked our sellers a month ago if they would buy the freehold and they've agreed to do this although it's taken a month for us to actually nail them down to agree to that.
My issue now is we only have 14 weeks left on our mortgage offer and we have to factor in Christmas closures too, so means that we realistically probably have about 13 weeks. My other half desperately wants this house as it is perfect in his eyes (I think others will come along if we rent here first and wait). For family reasons we need to move up here ASAP and have looked at rentals but can't commit to a tenancy until we know where we stand. Most rentals here are a 12 months tenancy as well which is not ideal. Renting also v competitive and not many family friendly properties come up often in decent areas.
I'm now thinking do we just forget about trying to sort the freehold out now and deal with that ourselves in a couple of years and try and push through a leasehold purchase before our offer expires? I'm going to speak to the bank today but as sellers solicitors are refusing to give any estimated timescales I can't exactly ask for an extension that I don't even know that I need.
My head is completely battered with all this as it's been 3 months now since we made our offer and we haven't even got to searches yet.