Is there a new thread for “Anyone putting their home on the market in early 2025”?

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The other thread is full 😏

@OtiMama congratulations!!

@ThisTooShallPassApparently I am in the same situation as you! We sold to FTB 6th June and had offer accepted the same day on our empty onward purchase. Everyone is pushing for end of August completion. Searches are back, mortgage valuations and offers done and we’ve completed all enquiries raised by our buyers they come back with a few further questions which we answered Friday. Spent the weekend packing everything we don’t need and sorting out clothes so really hope it is the end of August!! EAs both sides have been pushing quite hard our buyers and the person we’re buying from are using the same solicitors company and it’s them that seems to be slow, with the responses to first lot of enquiries going to the wrong typing queue and being held up for over a week. The EAs found this out and pushed for this to be resolved and it got turned around the same day not sure why they just sit on things and don’t act on them as they come in!

Jumping on the thread
we have been on the market 9weeks (feels like a lifetime) had about 8 viewings all positive butit seems like every viewer who comes to see the house is waiting for theirs to sell so we are just at a standstill.
Our EA hasn’t been the best, but we are stuck with them, they are saying the market for our price bracket is very slow. Houses under 350 are selling fast but at 430 our bracket isn’t moving. Looking on RM that seems to be true, all the houses within our price range are still up and we are all slowly reducing our price.
so frustrating and depressing.
we have a viewing tomorrow and Tuesday but I’m not holding out much hope as they all seem to say the same thing or ghost us completely

I've just given authority to exchange - I'm now daring to believe this may actually happen; completion Monday!

Estate agents are valuing as I type.
New build is due ready just before Christmas.
Here I go.

Just had another 3 viewings on our house- all need their house to sell first. I feel like there isn’t anyone in our area actually able to proceed.

Genuine question - why do the searches take so long? Solicitor has said the average is 12 weeks. What is it about the process that takes 12 entire weeks?!?

@IDontDrinkTea maybe it’s area dependant but our buyers searches took 4 weeks max. I would ask your estate agent for the average time locally as you might find your solicitor is slow and managing your expectations by using searches as an excuse!

@IDontDrinkTea our searches took 3 weeks. Our solicitor advised us their average time from beginning conveyancing to completion was 8-12 weeks. We’re on week 7 and the delays so far have been the snail’s pace of our mortgage lender and our vendors solicitor being on holiday twice in the space of a month…

Our searches were back in a week our buyers took 4 weeks same council 🤷♀️

EAs said we can expect to discuss dates for exchange/completion at the end of next week. Waiting for solicitors to also agree that they have everything in place to be able to do this.

Got home last night to a load of post for our buyers including some NHS letters aibu to be pissed off when we haven’t even exchanged yet that they’ve updated their address with multiple people including the NHS?!

@Vie8126 thats pretty presumptuous of them tbh! We only put a postal redirection in place once we had exchanged and even then, only from our completion date.

We haven't actually changed our address on anything yet (completion is this Friday).

Our searches took 10 weeks, big delays locally. The chain completed at the start of April and we still haven’t exchanged. Our buyers made their offer in January. Waiting for the top of the chain who are so slow. All the agents involved are crap. Our sellers solicitor doesn’t respond to anyone. No one has any sense of urgency. There’s only 3 bloody houses involved too. We wanted a July completion, think we’ll be lucky if it’s September now. Absolutely infuriating. 😩

First quote for removals in at £3500 - I am shocked. It’s a relocation move and a 4 bed house. I was expecting £2-2500. I have two more quotes booked in later this month but this amount threw us. Anyone else had comparable quotes?

We have had the same quotes for moving a 3 bed house 200 miles. Another £500 to pack as well.

@canyon2000 oh dear, I was hoping it was an anomaly - there was another £500 of add ons with this.

@Timwith2noses how far are you moving?

About 150 miles

@Timwith2noses @canyon2000 how far in advance have you got quotes? We are also relocating about 300miles and wondering whether to start enquiring about getting quotes. But feels like tempting fate! Our sellers want to complete either last week sept or first week Oct.

We haven’t started seriously talking dates yet but I wanted to get quotes and understand how such a move would work in reality because it’s obviously not going to be a DIY/all done in a day job. We are hoping for the first half of October.

@Timwith2noses thank you. I might take the plunge then and get some quotes. I was thinking £3k so maybe time to manage my expectations 😂

We are hoping to move in the middle of September. The company went have gone with said they will come and pack all our stuff up the day before completion, then deliver our stuff the day after we complete. Something to do with not being guaranteed to get the keys early enough to unpack and then drive back the same day.

@canyon2000 yes I was thinking it would be over two days to accommodate the distance and driving. Good luck hope everything goes well for you.

Despite giving authority to exchange on Tuesday, still no exchange and we’re supposed to complete on Monday.

Bottom of the chain solicitor (my buyers’ buyer) at the 11th hour decided they weren’t happy with something and my buyers’ solicitor is now sorting out an indemnity policy which apparently they say they will be happy with.

Monday is the buyers’ buyer’s deadline as she starts her new job Tuesday in her new location, so I’ve no idea what the consequence is if we miss Monday. When it’s her solicitor that raised this last minute, despite apparently having had all documentation since late May.

It’s now Thursday and I have about 3/4 of a house still to pack because I’ve not dared do too much too soon.

The stress and strain of it is really starting to take its toll now. Saw every hour on the clock last night!

Well received an offer on our house - we accepted and now they are ghosting us.
its just so frustrating.. back to square one

We had a viewing last Friday, the people are very interested but their house isn’t yet on the market despite us being certain that the estate agent told us that they’d sold!

Another today, a cash buyer in rented accommodation. I told the estate agent to tell her that we’re pretty sure we’ll be going for a new build and will also be cash buyers.
There’s a viewing lined up for Sunday, we’re told it’s a family with their house on the market with a number of viewings booked in. Might as well let them have a look I suppose.

I ended up getting 5 quotes, not a relocation, only a few miles but a big 4 bed house. We’ve gone with a 2K quote after having 3 around the same, one at 3ish and one at almost 4K, none of these included packing which I had very much hoped for but just couldn’t justify.