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

[IWasBornIn1989]

The other thread is full 😏

I’d find a local agent with really good reviews, especially for marketing and progress chasing. They need to be on it, all the time.

Sorry just read the message again and see you note Purple Bricks and similar.

Ours went online this afternoon - we had three viewings last week before it was advertised and just got another 5 views booked in for Friday. We've already found somewhere we want and put in an offer but they won't accept it until we're proceedable, understandably. They've had another offer but not accepted that as too low.

I'm really hoping we get an offer quickly as there's nothing else on the market that we're interested in buying at the moment. So stressful waiting though!

We were meant to exchange today but it didn't go ahead. A hold up with some paperwork. I'm so frustrated 😠

@Mumintheshadows that's frustrating. Hope it can be sorted ASAP.

I agree with others about going for a local well recommended EA over purple bricks etc. it's stressful enough, it's not worth any savings for the stress of doing more!

We had a reply from the EA. Vendor asked for a bit more £2.5k, but the EA said come back to him even if we can't increase. So we've stuck to our offer for now as we feel the house is empty, they haven't waited on any offers where the offer's buyer has pulled out so they are keen to sell. So another night waiting for a response. Hope we will be sorted by tomorrow either way! Part of me thinks it's pretty wondering over that much but we really have gone to more than our maximum so that is a lot for us right now!

Oh that’s so frustrating!

Another thing I’d add to my agent criteria list if we ever buy another house. Ask the agent if they have a full time sales progressor. Not like ours, a well known company, who for some reason employ a part time sales negotiator to do sales progression, who only works 3 days a week, which doesn’t include a Monday or a Friday, who only does sales progress work on one of those days 🙄

Hello 👋🏻

We accepted an offer on our house at the start of the month. Last week we had an offer accepted on the property we want - all good.

Today we were chased by our buyers asking if our sellers have found somewhere yet (!) and were told that they'd already began searches.

I'd been feeling fairly relaxed until this chasing phone call as, imo, it hasn't been very long since our offer was accepted and I felt we had found somewhere pretty quickly.

Now I'm worried our buyers (FTB) don't fully understand how long this process could take 🙃

We are doing as much as we can in that we have solicitors instructed and forms filled and our mortgage broker is ready to go once we've handed our info over.

We have also been asking surveyors for quotes but have been told they have a 4-5 week wait for appointments. We're hesitant to get a survey done when the chain isn't complete - is that the sensible thing to do?!

We are in pretty much the same boat. We accepted an offer on our house and almost immediately arranged viewings for our onward purchase. We offered on Monday and had our offer accepted.

Our sellers are still viewing properties and so while we are waiting for the chain to complete we have instructed solicitors, all memorandum of sales have been issued and we in the process of completing the paperwork and doing our ID checks. So we are being proactive and doing things as quickly as we can.

I have got quotes for a survey but not gone any further at the moment. I spoke with our solicitor today who advised us to wait until the chain was complete before arranging the survey. He also said he wouldn't be applying for searches just yet either and that it was wise just to hang on.

I know a friend of mine who rushed ahead and paid for searches and a survey before the chain was complete and then the people at the top decided not to sell because they couldn't find somewhere themselves so the chain collapsed before it was even completed.

Its a risky business. What do your Solicitors advise? Do they advise you to wait for a complete chain?

It’s going on the market today! Really don’t know what to expect as never sold before.

I wouldn’t organise a survey until the chain is complete and sales memo has been issued. As soon as that happened for us, I started looking for a surveyor and had a survey booked a week later. Once the chain is complete I’d rather know as soon as possible if there’s anything wrong with the house that we don’t know about. I know someone who waited 9 months for a chain to complete, then the survey on their onward purchase was terrible and the whole thing fell apart and they ended up not moving at all.

update from me:

survey on our has been done, poss an issue to resolve around a garden wall. waiting to hear if buyers are happy. awaiting enquiries from them.

survey booked on our onward purchase. and searches in. mortgage application in.

feels like things are moving. ish.

We’ve got quotes for a survey, just waiting for our solicitors to confirm that they’ve got the contract pack form sellers so we know the situation and if there’s anything we need our surveyor to really look at. Interesting our buyers solicitors have all the paperwork but not heard anything from them about a survey etc yet

Our FTB’s haven’t considered a survey apparently. I am a bit surprised, this house is 120 years old. I thought it was part of mortgage conditions to have a survey but I’ve now been told otherwise!

Slowly getting there - of the 17 enquiries made on the house I am buying we are down to the last three! House sold on the 25th February so nearly 3 months of this. No visibility of what is going on at the bottom of the chain - cross fingers and hope no one is going to pull out!

Finally have some good news! Offer accepted for us on a chain free house today 😊 so it's just us, our FTB and the house we are buying. Apparently a previous buyer who pulled out did searches so hoping we can get them/still in date! Fingers crossed it all goes smoothly 😆

Reduced price on probate house today. Hoping that gets it shifted.
Best of luck all.

I'm going to join.
I'm selling my dad's house. Probate sale.
Our buyer pulled out today so back on we go.
The buyers had underestimated the extent of work required and were frightened away by their survey. We're dropping the price by 15k.

Mine went up for sale today. I will not be buying so no chain. Exciting. 😁

Wahey! Amazing!

We’ve made some progress with our sale and hopefully should be discussing exchange in a couple of weeks, finally!
Survey booked in for the house we’re buying and mortgage in the process of getting sorted.
The sellers are buying something else but haven’t had their offer accepted yet, I’m really hoping there’s not going to be a long chain!

Mortgage offer confirmed yesterday and searches all ordered now a waiting game!

Hi, joining to see how the journey goes for others. We had an offer on our house back at the end of March and were accepted on our new house the week after. Our buyers initially asked for an end of May completion date (10 weeks). We said we’d move as quick as possible but obviously the chain above us would impact.

Essentially everything is done on our sale to them, except at the last minute they’ve raised a query because we marketed the house as a semi detached but some of the new build paperwork lists it as a terrace. As far as I can tell, this is just because the developer labels our model of house as a terrace. We absolutely aren’t anything other than a semi-detached, there’s literally only our two houses even near each other nevermind attached!

So now I’m super stressed because on the one hand they got our EA to get me to chase my solicitor over one other minor enquiry and completion dates, but they’ve also thrown this spanner in the works. It’s quite annoying being nagged to get a move on when the only thing holding us up is their enquiry that we’ve put to the developers but probably can’t resolve.

On our purchase, we’re waiting for them to get their management pack. I honestly don’t even care at this point, I wish I could just tell our solicitor we don’t want it and just want to exchange/complete!

Week 2 of our house being on the market and no interest whatsoever 😩

Last week we had 838 online views of our listing but no physical views and this week we have only had 155 so quite a dip. Our EA apparently emailed 77 people, 50 opened it and only 10 clicked in for further info but nothing came of it. Not going well at all.

@Alim0 sorry to hear that, it's just so stressful. I hope some interest comes in soon.

When in the process have people done surveys? Our chain is complete and we are starting the process with the solicitors. Should we get a survey on our purchase now or wait longer? Thanks

I want to know this too.

We have accepted an offer, had an offer accepted on our forward purchase and are just waiting for the chain to complete which we believe will be any time now. Solicitors paperwork all complete and funds transferred ready for the searches. We believe our buyers are having a survey on our house, which we haven't heard about yet, so do we wait for them to have their survey on ours, before we have one on our purchase?