The all-new buyers/sellers waiting room (continued x5) thread!

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Hi I took the liberty of starting a new thread as I couldn't answer on the last one.

@kirinm I am glad you've decided I pull out. I wanted to suggest it but didn't want to stress you out. I hope the next house you view is the one and it all goes smoothly.

@ingkir I have just read all the search results. My son has helped with a couple of questions, I've left a message for my friend to help with something else and I am waiting for the solicitor to ring me back as they've attached someone else's details to the end of the paperwork 🙄. I'm distinctly unimpressed as of course potentially someone has mine and the whole stream could be wrong. Looking at what the emails say it is likely it is a one off but I needed to tell them. The receptionist was going to put me through to the solicitors secretary until I said why I was ringing. Already over the time of when she said she'd be back.

I still have a few things outstanding but I won't exchange until I have answers so I'll wait it out.

@Champere I understand that but I do feel out ofpocket expenses should be covered off if it's on the basis of 'fancy something else more'

Well no exchange today. Radio silence instead.
I rang our solicitor and could only speak to an assistant who sent me a hug but couldn't put me through because solicitors door was shut and she was busy doing completions. I don't want a bloody hug I want some news!

Please may I join? Offer accepted on a house, we’ve been looking for 18 months so really pleased. Instructed solicitors 3 weeks ago. Logged on to portal thingy to check progress and they’ve done…..nothing. Absolutely nothing. Not instructed the searches (which I have already paid for) nothing, despite the fact that the vendor wants to exchange before Christmas. This isn’t our first rodeo and it has happened every time but every time it gets on my wick! How can things take so bloody long???

That's really poor @Getamoveon2024 call them Monday and ask exactly what is going on. Could be the portal/app hadn't been updated and other things are going on.

How long has everyone's enquiries stage taken? I'm intrigued to see the average! Ours submitted to vendors last Monday - and yes depends on complexity etc - just wondering if there is any hope of being in by Christmas!

@Waiting4Autumm I did call them! And no, they’ve just “been busy” and will “try to get on it” next week 🤦‍♀️

Hi, can I join? Just had offer on my house which I accepted, then made an offer on the house I want to buy. Then got a call from my agent saying the couple who want to buy my house are trying to get out of their tenancy agreement. Surely they should have sorted this out first? Anyway agents aren't taking mine off sale until it's sorted out and I have more viewings in the mean time.

It's been 31 years since I bought my house, and bloody hoping this will be my last move, I'm stressed already!

How long have they got left on their tenancy agreement? We have been going 6 months and hoping to exchange next week so it might not be an issue?

The agent didn't say, I'll try and find out. Must admit they haven't been filling me with confidence thus far, but cross fingers!

@iloveyoubutilovememore I'm not as far along in the process as you but this week a house that went SSTC just before I could see it came back on the market and so even though I'm in the process of buying a different house I went to view it today. It seemed like my dream home and whichever house I buy is going to be a 20+ year home so it has to be the right one. Luckily for me while it's a lovely house I actually prefer the one I'm already buying. But I'm so grateful to have that reassurance now because I know otherwise I would have spent a lot of time wondering 'what if.'

Can I join?
It's a saga but the shortened version is:
Finally partitioning home with ex partner as our home became unsafe in January due to ex partner's actions. House listed in March and sold in August. Ex partner dragged his heels getting paperwork in so the buyer pulled out. Luckily a week later got 3 offers and got a cash buyer. Ex partner took 2 weeks to be located and agree to the offer.
I've found a place, and the offer was accepted. I'm going with my faith that he'll do all his documents so we don't lose this motivated buyer.
I need this to go through, so I can be free from his control forever!
My conveyancer says they won't begin to look at my purchase until he has his ID forms verified for the sale first.
How's everyone else doing? This has been so stressful!

Oh wow. It is a stressful process but that sounds so horrendous for you, hopefully things move quickly now so you can be rid of him and close that chapter on your life xx

Thanks cheese it's been awful. Just hopeful I'm on the other side now. I'm certainly hopeful about this week! Just a feeling.
Is exchange on the horizon for you now?

I'll keep my fingers crossed for you.

Yeah we're hoping to exchange next week, its been a bit of a rollercoaster so far and just hoping for some certainty soon! But our situation isn't bad so trying to keep perspective 😘

I'd like to join... We're 6 weeks in to our purchase and nothing has progressed - sellers still looking for their onward purchase, haven't even sent draft contracts to our solicitor. Their solicitors are notoriously slow. I'm getting itchy feet and starting to scan rightmove again.
We don't have an urgent date to move by BUT I am starting to wonder how committed the sellers are.
Would I be awful to arrange some viewings - there are a few coming up that look like they might be more suitable than the one we've offered on.

Our offer’s been accepted but we can’t have a memorandum of sale until the bank has had the valuation assessed for the mortgage… we requested it on Tuesday but they’re being slow 😒 I hate this part.

Please can I join you all. We've just put our flat on the market, and currently have had 1 viewing (she's coming back for a 2nd viewing this week) and a 2nd person coming this week. Photos yet to be done. We're selling up to settle a huge debt (80k+), so will have a very small budget to buy, about 45k deposit for around a 200k property. We have 2 kids, and want a 3 bed - preferably a house, preferably with a garden. We want to stay below Luton-ish, and have been thinking of Kent (know about the Kent test), Wiltshire, Chippenham, Bristol, E or W Sussex, Gloucester or Welsh borders.
What we need:
Nice schools. Have one very academic kid and one moderately academic. Also considering home ed.
London commuting. It's only occasionally, so doesn't need to be seamless but easy enough by train would be great.
Outdoor spaces nearby - preferably coastal but hiking or rivers good too.
Happy to have a project in a nicer area.

I've never really been out of our London area so I'm really lost on where to go. A leisurely search of plenty of day trips and holidays in the UK would be fab, but due to needing to settle up ASAP Id really appreciate some pointers on where to focus our sights on rather than everywhere.
Thanks and good luck to you all

@Guinnessbreath I think as that's very low budget you would be much better buying a really good shared ownership house than something really crappy- you will struggle to get anything at £200k in those areas that isn't a flat or in mortgageable condition - these ones are really good ones buying 50% in very lovely market town of corsham- builder isa good builder too- I know this development and it's really pleasant- good schools. Train to London when you need it from Chippenham 3 miles away or Bath 8 miles away- it's lovely place to live ( and I'm a snob)

www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/154403150

www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/154247825#/?channel=RES_BUY

Stick with it! I'm reading this thread because I'm going through it vicariously - my elder DD is a FTB, and she stressed me to the eyeballs in the two weeks she was house hunting!! She is impatient and dramatic lol!

The first house she viewed was her dream! It was 5 minutes away from us by car, it was in a great location for work and everything else. The vendor had done a lot of upgrades and it really was a beautiful home. DD was so excited about it, she wanted to put an offer in before she had even seen it, which I advised her not to, of course! She was the first viewer and she put in full asking. Of course, the offers rolled in and it rocketed way beyond her price point. She actually wishes now she hadn't seen it because it spoiled her for other properties.

She is now sale agreed on a lovely house - ok it's not all to her taste, but she had her offer accepted slightly under asking. Dream house was an end of terrace. Sale agreed house is a semi in a really small development. It's not the location she would have chosen, but it's still a good one. Bonus is, it comes with all the furniture included FOC! Some of it is is pretty new too, and everywhere is freshly painted and carpeted.

You are 100% doing the right thing. £25k could turn your home-to-be into your dream home, and it will go for way more than that!

Still stalemate here over a completion date, which are consecutive dates.

All put in perspective has just had news of a death in the family: feel like telling our buyer to stop wasting everyone’s time and just withdraw completely.

Absolutely nothing is coming on the market to view which is increasingly depressing.

Our buyer's mortgage survey is today so we shall see if she's going to try and knock money off once that is done.

Oh I'm so sorry, that's very difficult - as you say, gives perspective. I totally understand why you feel like pulling out (have felt that many times myself), hang on in there, you are nearly at the end x

Sending love that's tough!

Have you worked your way through contacting all the local agents directly instead of just waiting for things to come on Rightmove? They might have a database with people who are thinking of selling or had tried and come off to wait for next year - or even be able to do leafleting in the areas you are interested in.

@Tupster I have. My agent has leafleted around our preferred areas but nothing.

It is just generally dead!