Waiting for keys on completion day!

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For various reasons I have an awful feeling that the seller will be messing about on when we complete on Friday and we will be waiting for ages to get the keys after authority

I think they won't realise the timescales and will not be in a hurry to leave

Would be unreasonable to aske the agent or the solicitors to explain we have to be in as soon as possible on Friday after keys are available and that we need to be in as soon as they finish

Once it has completed the property is yours and they should be ready to vacate. But in one of my moves, we were sat outside from 1 till 5 and my removal guys had to help them. Fingers crossed for you.

yes it is all yours once the sale has completed, you will get a call to say this has been done. But we did and the previous owner was still in the house tidying up(!) seriously, we had to tell him he could go now😂

Either way, you can't have the keys officially until completion has taken place. If they're still there early afternoon and you incur extra removal costs, then it wouldn't be unreasonable to put in a claim.

If official completion has taken place, then it wouldn't be unreasonable to enter property with some of your items.

In our last move to our current house, the vendors hadn't even started packing when we turned up at 1:30pm. They rang their solicitor who informed them that they were trespassing. They didn't move out until the next day and also disconnected a radiator in the kitchen, the bathroom sink and the bath. They also locked all of the windows and took the keys. One bill later for the cost of a hotel, a removal van, storage and the fixing of their malicious actions (roughly £3k) and I think they learned their lesson. We could have added a charge for living I. Our house but we focussed on the actual costs we had incurred due to their stupidity.

@weathervane1 wtf who would do that!

Property purchase in the UK is nuts. Really insane process.

I too had someone basically refuse to move on completion day. They had wrongly assumed they could stay the weekend and move in thier own time...
Thankfully it was a flat I was renovating not moving into...