Our house has been on the market since August, we had an offer at the beginning of January which we had accepted, their buyers did not have a place to sell so we thought things would get moving quickly. Unfortunately these people at the bottom of the chain are in no rush at all to move, they don't want to talk to the estate agents, they did not get a survey on our buyers house until April, they have not asked their solicitor to do any conveyancing yet, but they have been applying for their mortgage and for the last 4 weeks have been waiting for their mortgage offer -as far as we know. Our buyers and us meanwhile are just sitting waiting for them to do something although we both still have our houses on the market. My partner is working 350 miles away so we are desperate to move together - does anybody have any good advice or previous experience in this kind of situation? Have other people's house sales taken this long? Should we just stuff them and put our house up to let so we can go now? Or should I go and whack the guy at the bottom of the chain with a large iron bar? Help!!!