Anyone planning to move in spring or earlier.

[mrssunshinexxx]

Been in current home almost 8 years want to upsize and move location to where my dc’s go to school. Got a couple viewings booked this coming week.
reminding myself of the headache that comes with moving

Fingers crossed everything keeps progressing @Singleoldermum & @ForPinkCrab

The end is near @CreepingCrone, well done for getting through that! Hope the move goes well.

Well, we've put a date forward to the sellers for exchange and completion (I need to exchange and complete simultaneously for complicated reasons I don't want to go into), so fingers crossed. I can then get the decorator in to get it all redone before moving furniture in.

Please can I join for some moral support?
We’re not experienced house sellers/buyers, put our house on the market earlier this year, ‘sold’ quickly, started the (horrible) process, felt like we were paying money left & right, solicitors etc, found a lovely new house, offer accepted, all going well we thought even if pretty stressful.
Towards the end of last week we were told our buyers buyer has pulled out for personal reasons - I got a feeling about this buyer four weeks ago that they might be a bit of a tricky one from a comment made by our agent that I stupidly didn’t address looking back on that. We were in a chain of five, our sellers buying a house with vacant possession. Whilst I get that the whole process is what it is, it’s a business transaction & all that, I am an absolute mess, was so cross & have now woken up this morning very upset as we really want to move & don’t know what to do for the best, re-list, give our buyers some time to try to find a new buyer etc..we have a call with the agent tomorrow afternoon but I just feel helpless, it’s consuming my mind & I haven’t slept a wink 😢 give the current economic climate & the fact that it’s now pretty much the Easter break so allowing a few weeks at this point might be a fruitless idea.
Good luck everyone too!

Hi @Sellinghouse2026 - how long did it take your buyers to find a buyer? If they weren't on the market for long, I'd give them some time, if the rest of the chain can wait. It's all so stressful. It's also so hard to know what to do in the current mortgage climate - we have a good deposit but the rate we have been offered is not great, but will they just get worse? I think so. So I'm hoping the market doesn't collapse with people getting cold feet and pulling out.

We had an offer accepted on my house a month ago, I'm buying a house with my boyfriend. It has added stress because I really love my house and I'm very emotionally attached to it and wouldn't be moving except he really wants a garage and we need a garden for our dogs. I'm also worried about taking out a big mortgage having had a tiny one for ages. I'll be moving away from my friends (although only twenty minutes) but it was nice having a lot of old friends living nearby.

I thought our chain was fairly straightforward, just a chain of four with FTBers at the bottom, us at the top (we're buying an empty probate bungalow in need of full renovation which has never sold before so likely to have lots of expensive conveyancey quirks). However our vendors are useless - three inheritors who took three weeks to accept our offer and then another age to find a solicitor. And then yesterday I found out the FTBers are not, they lied to the agent - one of them owns a house with their ex and that has to sell first so there are two simultaneous chains going on.

We tried to move two years ago but it all went tits up and I pulled out. I know I need to just suck it up this time even if we end up moving in with my father in law for a bit.

I also started a new job a month ago and they are piling stuff on top of me so I feel ready to explode!

This happened to us a few months ago and we gave our buyer time to find a new buyer. It was November so not the best time, and they didn’t find a new buyer. We waited till after Christmas and still nothing so we went back on the market in February. We found a new buyer a month later. In the meantime we lost the house we wanted but we have now found a much better house. For us the timings worked out very well in the end as we went back on the market in the spring when more people are looking, and we had been off the market long enough to come back on Rightmove as a new listing. We lowered our price when we went back on. The whole saga was all so stressful but in the end we got a better buyer - a first time buyer and there’s a very small chain this time. If you decide to give them some time I wouldn’t give them too long, for us it was different because there was Christmas in the middle of it all. Can you afford to lower your price to attract a new buyer? I hope you’ve got a good support network as there’s a lot on top of you with all of this. I’ve started going for hypnotherapy sessions and seeing a counsellor as our buying/selling situation has been so stressful on top of other upsetting life events. Sending big hugs

Things are finally moving here.
We've virtually exchanged 🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼 My solicitor hoped to today, but she hasn't called so maybe tomorrow 🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼
I've spent 3 days packing up my ceramics studio and sorting things out. Fortunately I'm paying for the removals to pack my house stuff. My ex moves out tomorrow. His house is held up, but he's staying at a relative's empty house. My girls are moving with him - but they haven't even started packing!!! 🙄🤦🏻‍♀️🤬
In fact, they've spent the last day sleeping off hangovers and refusing to do their rooms (they are uni age).
Everything will be a bit of a rush and stressful, so I've booked a cleaner to whizz round on the morning of move day (Thursdya 2nd), as I can't do it all on my own. My head feels like it's going to explode with everything I have to do and remember, but the end is near 🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼

So got the contents paperwork from the vendors yesterday and they are charging for the upstairs carpets .. I just feel like this is unreasonable ? Also charging for all the curtains and electric blinds which also I wasn’t expecting as we’ve left all ours as so unlikely to get a window of the same size especially for electric ones ?

Can I push back on this?

Was the property empty otherwise when you viewed it @mrssunshinexxx?

In general, I wouldn’t expect the sellers to take carpets, but I’d probably expect them to take curtains. The electric blinds seem like more of a grey area.

So I suppose it depends on how much they’re asking for these things.

That’s barefaced cheek. I would absolutely not agree to this.

Not huge amounts much cheaper than a new carpet would cost but I don’t think that’s the point what’s the chances of them fitting in their new rooms exactly right ? To add we’re paying asking price it’s an expensive property so not like we’ve ’got anything off ‘ there

Cheeky fuckers!! I hate people who rinse you on fixtures and fittings, unless you really drove them down on price. My vendors charged me for loads of stuff I thought would be included (fireplace surrounds etc!) and it still riles me to this day.

My buyers are coming round for another viewing this weekend and I'm going to walk them around and ask them what they want including, I have no intention of charging them for curtains that fit those windows and not my new house, etc. I think the better you treat people in the process, the better the outcome for everyone, when times get stressful. You want to keep that good will alive!

Unbelievable!! I would be so tempted to refuse! How much do they want in total?

Yeah I’m surprised as I’ve met them and all seemed good. Less than £200 for 3 carpets it doesn’t really make sense for a property of over a mil , we’ll just suck it up as I’m not going to risk tanking the sale over it but very unreasonable for sure , I’ve left everything for our buyers x

Hello thread, I've been delayed in joining in due to wanting to read the full thread and know everyone's situation. to those going through this.

My house went up for sale last week. Priced it at £160k as neighbour has theirs up for £180k and recently dropped to £170k. I get it, last year houses down here were being marketed at £180k but sales were more like £165k. It got us two viewings last Saturday and two offers. One more viewing on Saturday and we're going to best and final offers next week.

I have a mystery condition that becomes debilitating with stress, so the plan is to move in with DP, who is going to take a year between tenants to do his house up. Hopefully this means no chain, but I have seen somewhere I quite like and am viewing on Saturday.

I am determined to keep this as low stress as possible. Ha!

Going to catch up with the last page of the thread now...

OP you've made me think twice about my fittings and fixtures. I've said all curtains for £200 but if the sale goes through fine, I'll let them have them (if they want them - I love your idea of walking through and itemising what they'll make use of!). I've also included a brand new £500 fridge freezer as I couldn't face the hassle of trying to get it out of the kitchen.

I'd fantasise about saying "no thank you" to the £200 carpets and see if they bother with the hassle of having them removed! But of course, you've made the right decision.

Ladies, I'm am very happy to announce we finally exchanged yesterday and moved out today. I've had a few incredibly stressful days packing up my studio and basically packing for my ex. I forked out a fortune for movers to pack my stuff, and he made no arrangements for himself 🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️
I'm currently sat in a Tescos carpark near the estate agents, waiting o complete, then I can get the keys. My fantastic movers are parked outside my new house.
it's taken 3 incredibly long and fractious years of divorce and trying to sell the house, whilst living and wfh with my difficult ex.
Hallelujah!!!!

P.s. I left the house 2.5hrs ago and he's called me 3 times already.... 🙈

Good luck @CreepingCrone for your new beginnings! Mine will also be a fresh start for many reasons I can't go into on here after a difficult few years. It's 5 months since I offered on my house, so keen to be able to get on with it now. We've had a short delay, but hopeful for exchange next week or the week after.

Thank you! I hope your's goes ahead as quickly and smoothly as possible!

I would love to hear more about your story @CreepingCrone. 3 years? What will your involvement be with your ex now that you've moved?

well done! Here’s to new beginnings

Congratulations @CreepingCrone, hope you are now in your new house with a glass of wine!

After a very smooth beginning, reality struck yesterday. After spending some time getting the house ready for a third viewer, and planning our day around an 11am slot, they didn't turn up. Trying not to be irritated, because anything could have happened, but I'd have spent my Friday and Saturday differently had I known. Could also have accepted an offer earlier in the week. My estate agent wants to go to best and final offers after the bank holiday but I think we should just go for the current best offer. In fact, I will do that if viewer 3 is out of the picture completely.

We also went to look around a little cottage in a village and the reality of house-hunting hit me. I just want to scurry back to my house and hide there forever. Or possibly live in a hotel or holiday park.