General rant, everything seems so slow

[dilemma456]

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I share your frustration! We are in a small chain and the whole thing is taking aaaagees, even now, when all parties are ready to exchange!

Could you basically tell the estate agents you are worried that the vendor isn't serious about selling to you because your solicitor is getting nowhere with the paperwork, and if he isn't serious then you need to withdraw sooner rather than later.

Any hint that they aren't going to get their commission will get the estate agents worried and you can suggest they chase the vendors solicitor directly (they will have the sols contact details).

It's been interesting in the last few days with our chain how helpful the estate agents on both the sale and purchase have suddenly become - they just want the sale to go through now, asap, almost as much as we do!

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All so familiar to me. As Wigeon says, estates agents are the ones to badger in this situation, they have all contact details and will do the ringing and nagging if they believe you are going to walk away.

All familiar to me, too! Nothing was happening for 7 weeks after our offer was accepted. I was going crazy! Then all of a sudden things started moving and we completed in 10 weeks. My moral: don't stress yourself, you are likely to get there one way or another!

All familiar to me, too! Nothing was happening for 7 weeks after our offer was accepted. I was going crazy! Then all of a sudden things started moving and we completed in 3 more weeks (10 weeks in total). My moral: don't stress yourself, you are likely to get there one way or another!

My sympathy to you!

We are in exactly the same position - trying to buy a house that is dragging and dragging. There are no chains on either side (they have already moved into rented accomodation so the house is empty) and it's just the bloody garage negotiation - it's on a peppercorn rent so there are third party solicitors involved. They did nothing for 3 weeks. Grrr. I was so hoping to be in before Christmas.

My solicitor has been on holiday for 2 weeks, so we have our buyers solicitor and our vendors solicitor at her heels now to get things moving.

I deliberately chose a solicitor that was very near meaning I can get into their offices to hand deliver anything from us, and badger is necessary Just so I could not be blamed for holding anything up.

Ours is a 2 house chain. We have done 2 previous moves with only 2 houses involved so hopefully it is a good sign.

Fingers crossed for you some people are just very slow at paperwork.

I agree about the EA needing to move things along, if they start pestering the vendors solicitor they may start pestering the seller.

My EA is commission free and they are chasing it all through.