Property buying/selling timeline - currently into week 21
04/12/20: Both properties listed for sale
11/01/21: Offers
accepted on both sales & on our joint purchase
25/01/21: Identity checks completed, solicitors instructed
27/01/21: Purchase survey & valuation complete, mortgage offer
received
05/02/21: Reduction agreed on partner's sale (under-valuation) & on
purchase. Mortgage offer amended
08/02/21: Buyers pack returned to solicitor - sellers packs already returned
26/02/21:
Partner's sale contract signed
10/03/21: Purchase searches all back
16/03/21: My sale contract signed
28/03/21: Purchase enquiries satisfied, Title
Report & contracts issued, contracts signed & returned
11/05/21: Still waiting on final enquiry in the adjoining chain to be resolved. Consent to break the chain granted, instruction to move to exchange given.
17/05/21: All parties agreed to June 3rd for completion
27/05/21: Exchanged on my sale only
28/05/21: ALL EXCHANGED!
03/06/21: Completion
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Habitat in Leeds sale

williham
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Habitat in Leeds are getting rid of all the sale stuff cheap - they said the reductions were just in the leeds store.
For example we got:
3 duvet covers for £10 reduced from £69 (these are £34.50 in other stores)
Kids cat soft toy thing for £5 reduced from £35 (these are £17.50 in other stores)
And I saw:
DVD cube storage things reduced from £12 to £1 (£6 in other stores)
CD cube storage things reduced to the same
Blue plastic acrylic CD and DVD storage reduced from £59 to £12 (£24 in other stores)
All sale pillowcases £2.50
All sale duvet covers £10
All sale sheets £5
All sale throws £30
For example we got:
3 duvet covers for £10 reduced from £69 (these are £34.50 in other stores)
Kids cat soft toy thing for £5 reduced from £35 (these are £17.50 in other stores)
And I saw:
DVD cube storage things reduced from £12 to £1 (£6 in other stores)
CD cube storage things reduced to the same
Blue plastic acrylic CD and DVD storage reduced from £59 to £12 (£24 in other stores)
All sale pillowcases £2.50
All sale duvet covers £10
All sale sheets £5
All sale throws £30
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Comments
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Where abouts is the store? It used to be by next clearance, down that back bit, down behind M&S, is it still there?0
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It might be this store, which I posted last week:
http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=1414085&highlight=habitat+sale0 -
theronkinator wrote: »Where abouts is the store? It used to be by next clearance, down that back bit, down behind M&S, is it still there?
Must be the one in Birstall, near Ikea0 -
Is there not still a store at the bottom of Briggate - next to the big McDonalds on the corner?0
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uh oh, I feel a trip to my local one coming on to see if they are doing anything similar..... heeeeeeelp.0
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Just shows when the last time I went into the city centre was then LOL!Property buying/selling timeline - currently into week 21
04/12/20: Both properties listed for sale
11/01/21: Offers accepted on both sales & on our joint purchase
25/01/21: Identity checks completed, solicitors instructed
27/01/21: Purchase survey & valuation complete, mortgage offer received
05/02/21: Reduction agreed on partner's sale (under-valuation) & on purchase. Mortgage offer amended
08/02/21: Buyers pack returned to solicitor - sellers packs already returned
26/02/21: Partner's sale contract signed
10/03/21: Purchase searches all back
16/03/21: My sale contract signed
28/03/21: Purchase enquiries satisfied, Title Report & contracts issued, contracts signed & returned
11/05/21: Still waiting on final enquiry in the adjoining chain to be resolved. Consent to break the chain granted, instruction to move to exchange given.
17/05/21: All parties agreed to June 3rd for completion
27/05/21: Exchanged on my sale only
28/05/21: ALL EXCHANGED!
03/06/21: Completion0 -
It might be this store, which I posted last week:
http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=1414085&highlight=habitat+sale
That's right - it's near the Leeds Ikea etc.
Sorry didn't realise it had already been posted.0 -
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