How long did it take you from offer to exchange?

[bessr]

We’re 5 weeks in and things seem to be moving slower than I had expected. How long did it take you to exchange?

Offer which completed the chain to completion, three months exactly. We were very lucky!

Offer made in June, exchanged early Jan, completed 17th Jan.

Chain was first time buyer, us, the property we bought and one above.

no real reason it took so long, it was painful.

If we exchange on the date we currently have agreed, it'll be 13 months! 3 house chain - delay entirely due to the one I'm buying. Luckily my buyers have been waiting patiently for mine.

Last time I moved, I had an offer end of June and argued back and forth about price until mid July. It took until September for the upward chain to be put in place. It then took 6 weeks Until mid October for their survey, then arguing back and forth about results of the survey and renegotiating price. It was from mid October until early December for legalities with exchange early December and completion one week later.
Solicitors and estate agents were all quite efficient. Most delays were due to my difficult buyers and, to some extent, the length of the chain.

Three properties and three months.

12 weeks cash purchase empty house no chain, but we specified the timeline as our money was coming from redundancy and pension drawdown so had a specific date for money hitting the bank, also both solicitors were from the same firm but different branches so probably made it easier exchanged and completed on same day but moved in over the next month as we were renting so no rush

My dc offered in September, they hope to exchange end of the month with completion 2 weeks later. Buyer moving out after onward purchase fell through.

5mths, chain of four. Stressful, as moving always is. I hope you aren’t relying on moving before the SDLT changes OP, that would be cutting it very fine. Fingers crossed the move goes smoothly for you, it’s a lot of stress but worth it when you are in your new home. Good luck.

Five weeks to exchange and six to completion. We were on a deadline for a big discount on our new build and we made it! Sold to an estate agent.

Just managed it back end of last year in 10 weeks. Was a short chain of 3, and could have been done sooner if my seller had responded to some enquiries sooner!!

6.5 months offer accepted to exchange. Completed on day before mortgage offer expired. Chain of 3.

From end of Jan to 1st July. Empty house (previous rental), no chain and both v eager to complete ASAP.. No idea why it took sooo long

13 months 😭😭😭

Someone in the chain (not me) had to go to court to force ex to sign paperwork as they weren't engaging. Eventually judge signed it.

We are never ever moving 🤣 the stress nearly killed me

I'm 8 weeks in with no sign of exchange.

I'm a cash buyer of an empty property.

Ours took 5 months, mostly due to my seller's solicitor being useless. It's so stressful because something so important to your own life is entirely outside of your control.

Ten months. Never try and buy a house from someone who doesn't want to sell it.

Got there in the end, but never again.

14 Weeks

5.5 months, 2 house chain. Was very stressful at the time, seller threatened to pull out, threatened to sue our surveyor, we almost pulled out, several times thought we weren't going to get to exchange.

But.

We moved into our forever home in late November and its the best choice we ever made. We love it here and haven't looked back or regretted it once.

Hang in there. Everything worthwhile takes time! It will be worth it.

6 months and it was down to us. We had the slowest most useless lawyers.

6 weeks last time, but I had to manage the hell out of it. The time before that, 3 months, but the solicitor was excellent and the mortgage provider was not (bank).

On our first purchase 10 years ago, as FTB; absolutely no chain whatsoever... just shy of 6 months!!
We've accepted an other 5 weeks ago from a FYB, and we've just had an offer accepted on Wednesday just gone. Our vendor is hoping to buy a property that is vacant, so hopefully a complete chain.
It hasn't exactly got off to a flying start from our end; our estate agent hadn't instructed solicitors we were ready to proceed (husband always insists on going with the agent recommended solicitors). So naff all has been done in regard to our sale or purchase as yet.
After last time, I don't have very high expectations that this will be done promptly.

About 5-6 months.

ETA: no chain.

Pulled out of first purchase as sellers hadn't found anywhere to move to over three months after we put out offer in. Next house then took us almost 6 months from offer to exchange!

I've found it's normally around 12 weeks.
But... every couple of days ask the estate agent or solicitors what's going on, it works, the old squeaky wheel gets the oil saying, keep the pressure on and they do too.

Even with no chain on either side it took 12 weeks to get here and I was continually chasing. My solicitor was really good but it was an estate sale and that side were slow.

Selling my house before with no chain took 16 weeks. Again my solicitor and the EA were very good but the buyer used a cheap online solicitor who have form for being very slow and then very urgent.