Just having a vent because I'm losing my mind, sorry it's long.
We put our house on the market November 2023, nothing happened so pulled it off over Christmas and re-listed end of Jan. Accepted an offer early Feb, then found something we liked and had our offer accepted on that in early March. They then took 6 weeks to find somewhere, that was chain free, so we were in a completed chain before end of May.
Everything went smoothly regarding our sale and were ready to exchange in August, but our vendor was being super slow to respond to things and there were outstanding enquiries on our purchase.
End of August, our vendor says she is pulling out of her purchase, for a reason that not only we, but our estate agents (managing the whole chain) thought was stupid. She found another place in a couple of weeks, but decided not to offer because of work needing doing. By this time, we are mid-September and concerned about losing our buyers.
Our buyers tell us they have had to take on a new lease, as we all expected to have moved by end of Sep and that clearly wasn't going to happen. Our agent advised us they didn't think our vendor actually wanted to move, so we had been looking for something else, found an alternative property, chain free, and made an offer 2 weeks ago. It was accepted. So finally it looked like we might be able to move in the new year if we got all the legals done quickly, and not lose our buyers.
Yesterday our estate agent called and our buyers have now pulled out. They said they had been in the process so long that their financial situation had changed and their priorities had too, and they were going to look for something bigger. Which means we're no longer proceedable, so our vendors on the new house have put it back on the market.
We are now in the exact same position we were in 11 months ago when we first listed our house.
I could scream. We are having a baby in December - alright maybe I was gung ho in TTC when we the property process is so fucking unreliable, but it never crossed our minds we would be literally no further forward one year later.
We've now got to scrabble round making the house presentable for viewings and hope we get something quickly, and in the mean time hope the house we want doesn't go under offer to someone else. Our original vendor is not putting hers back on the market, so she clearly wasn't ready to sell anyway. Also all the fucking money pissed away on legal and surveys over the last 6 months. I'm just so fucking fuming that this is allowed to happen. And beyond depressed about searching for something again if we aren't able to re-offer on the house we had lined up, because we've been looking for 18 months now and these 2 are the only ones we've seen that we felt would work.
Anyway feels good to get that out. Please feel free to share similar tales of woe, or anything with a happy ending so I can believe this will be sorted at some point and we will be able to move eventually.