The all new buyers/sellers waiting room (x 6!) thread

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Welcome across everyone!

We’ve got six nights until we move and the insomnia has set in!

It’s taken us three threads to move and I hope this thread is the one I graduate on….

Best of luck to everyone! May your agents be truthful, your conveyancers responsive, your lenders generous and your chain reasonable!!

@Getamoveon2024 blame property programmes- I think some get a buzz from thinking they are Phil and Kirsty - particularly women

Things have moved for us. Part exchange valuation done and accepted. Solicitors instructed. Chosen flooring been told exchange mid Feb and complete 1 st week in March. Mine is rented so will keep that until end of March.

Are they allowed to do that ? Isn't the house supposed to be empty ?? I am hiring a skip just to clear things like that from the garage as i don't want to take them with us !

No they are not supposed to do that. I think technically we can sue them for the cost or removing it all but DH and DS17 are acting like they have won the lottery as they love stuff like this and are thinking they will make their fortune by flogging it. Whereas all I can see is junk and effort.

We're meant to exchange on Friday but nothing seems to be happening. Although what should be happening? Do we just wait now? It's me and Ex-h selling and then Ex-h is buying so both exchanges have to be "tied in" - I sort of know what that is. How do I know if it's all going as it should? Our solicitor seems very "chilled" but she's one of a few involved - ex-h has his own solicitor, as does his vendor, and of course the buyers of our house. I think I'll believe it when I see it and I know solicitors mostly close for Christmas on Friday - I wonder how many cases they all have, all trying to exchange on that day? (Shouldn't imagine many completing though, weekend before Christmas?)

We had that for 5 months with our previous "buyer" - estate agent kept saying don't worry they're sorting it all out - actually asked us to be "fair" to this bloke, give him more time as he was such a busy man etc - turned out he was 10s of £000s short, could never have bought the house but had mortgage brokers apparently looking into it. 5 months. And now we have new buyers and to be honest, if we weren't divorced and now desperate to sell, no way I'd let it go to them. We've just had to grit our teeth and let it go sadly. If you can, hang on for the right buyers.

Eeek we are completing on Wednesday and I am nervous now. Most furniture is out of the house already but last packing tomorrow and cleaning!!

@Littletreefrog Well done for making it over the finish line. My turn tomorrow!

@BlessThisMess good luck for today! I can't sleep! Head is whirring! Let's hope our days go smoothly

Well I'm awake! Completing today and my head is going round and round. Looking forward to a good nights sleep once settled - first one in many months! Good luck everyone else and hope some of you are getting good nights sleep 💤

The surveyor is going round our home as we speak 😬 squeaky bum time!

I think I’m resigned to not knowing our exchange date until January now.

Even so, I’ve completely lost the will with tidying the house. Every time I look at something that should be put away I think “well just have to get it out again to pack it”

This is not a strategy I recommend!

I still haven't heard about my completion today! The waiting is frustrating.

The survey went well! It was a level 2 survey, which was a plus for us as I know for buildings as old as ours RICS recommends Level 3 😁 there’s a slight damp issue which he said isn’t out of the ordinary for buildings this old and particularly when you have 5 people living in it. He recommended checking our damp proofing as sometimes it can give a false positive where there isn’t really a problem. But apart from that all good! SUCH a relief to have it done.

Phew!

If it helps we’re in the same position. We’re supposed to be exchanging contracts in the morning with completion on Friday. It’s been such a long slog with other traumatic family events happening alongside that I still can’t believe it will actually happen.

American that married into this British mess:) We are trying to buy our first house together in Cherwell . After selling our London flat . We are procedable ( renting 30 day notice ) and all cash . Everybody says we are in a good position, - but nobody wants to give us a discount for this position in spite of their apparent urgent requirement to move . Do you think this is a local agent issue not communicating this to vendors ? We are offering say 25 k less than asking 550k on houses which have no other offers for say a month and being denied or the vendor takes a non procedable offer for 10 k more . What am I doing wrong ? It doesn’t feel like these local agents give a dang if it takes a year or a month . Is this the way it goes in England? Somebody said I haven’t accepted the fact that I am just going to be @&# buying in England yet :) is there a % discount you should expect being procedable ?

Absolute freaking mad panic here to get everything sorted out. Stupid arsehole rude solicitor has left everything till the last second, refusing to answer my emails and even telling me not to ring her (!) then today our buyers said if we don't complete on Jan 3rd they're pulling out. I actually had to get my estate agent to raise a complaint with the solicitor for refusing to deal with our case. They recommended them and give them a lot of business, so final flurry of activity from about 3pm today. Had to get contracts signed and to the post office, send all sorts of docs over the portal with about half an hour's notice. All the panic could have been avoided if she'd just been answering me before. Anyone hopefully will be exchanging tomorrow because otherwise I think I'll have a nervous breakdown 😬

Can I add my sorry tale of woe? Trying to sell a house I bought in error (coincided with unexpected lift change) so it's sitting empty. I am on buyer number THREE. First one was great but lost their buyer, second mucked around endlessly but agents persuaded me to keep going despite my instincts; day of exchange they disappeared and no one's heard from them since and buyer three has had endless surveys, suddenly goine quite muttering something about issues that she was aware of a month ago. I, like all of you, am desperate to sell and already taking a huge financial hit. I don't want to rent out as it's an old house and I'll be besieged by maintenance requests, although it would actually be great as a short term for someone who wanted to break their chain/renovate their own home. Of course, agents aren't geared up to rent to people like that and I'm nervous of privately renting having heard horror stories of 'fake' rentals resulting in illegal HMOs.. SO stressful..

glad it went well for you today 🙂

Good news on the survey.

Sons survey is booked for Friday. Valuation fee paid today.

Hopefully two hurdles complete for the new year when the solicitors can get stuck in.

The last survey saw him pull out. It was dreadful. His vendors have just done the same and found another house to buy. So a good survey is indeed one worry fewer!

I've completed! At last. Seven months to buy a house. Now just got to fit in painting and moving with the last few busy days of work before Christmas.

Good luck everyone!

I wouldnt accept an offer much lower than asking just because you are ready to move . Not everybody is desperate to move quickly

I agree with you. I think for some people it is a day-out! These carpet treaders!😡

Tell me that I am not the only one who is fed up with slow, unresponsive conveyancing solicitors.