Anyone want to be my house-buying buddy?

Tony_R

Hairdye and Sharon, you both seem to be slightly ahead of me in the process. As a matter of interest what date was you offer on your purchase accepted?

sharon1982

Hi Tony - my offer was accepted on 17th May.

Tony_R

Thanks, ours was the 29th April. So you seem to be going along a lot quicker than us. Saying thats having checked its only been just under 7 weeks, but seems a lot longer, the sellers suggested an 8 week turnaround (but I'm not sure if that was to exchange or completion).

Hopefully we should get an exchange date this week, I hope.

9wizard9

hairdye wrote: »

, does anyone know how long it will be before we transfer the deposit and get the keys?

It could be days, it could be months. On my last purchase I think it was about a week between handing over deposit (and signing contract) and actually exchanging contracts, then another week or two to completion.

On my current purchase I'm expecting several weeks between exchange and completion, and getting to exchange is becoming a challenge - my solicitor says everything is done from our perspective, but we're still waiting for answers to enquiries that were raised in mid-May!

Just been chasing vendors directly as we exchanged contact details for precisely this sort of reason.

All you can do is ask EA and solicitor for estimates of timescales, but I'd take what they say with a pinch of salt - there's nothing sure in this property game...

hairdye

Tony_R wrote: »

Hairdye and Sharon, you both seem to be slightly ahead of me in the process. As a matter of interest what date was you offer on your purchase accepted?

Hi tony

our offer was accepted may 17th also!

thanks wizard, i hope we will find out everything we need to know on friday. i told the solicitor we wanted it all done by 1st of july so fingers crossed!

wessexw

Well I had some bad news in the post when I got home today The property I'm buying is leasehold, the freeholder is the local council. My solicitor had put in a request to find out what work the council intend doing to the property and got the result back today - they intend replacing windows, doors, fascia etc in about 3 years to the tune of £25k!!!! :eek:. My solicitor has gone back to get a detailed breakdown of this as it's a crazy price but I have a really bad feeling I had intended to do some of the windows and door myself anyway but not all of them. :(

neas

My offer was accepted on 11th June (last week lol). Already got accepted for mortgage, had to change solicitor once (as were struck off mortgage company register), homebuyer survey being completed today.. and my 3.99% 5 year fixed rate has been reserved for me.

I know the 3.99% fix is going to go up to 4.19% tomorrow so even if stamp duty goes back to normal i guess i will have to absorb it.

sharon1982

I now have an exchange date of this Monday, and completion date of 30th June. Yay! Fingers crossed it all goes smoothly... Should receive draft contract in next couple of days.

Karmacat

OOh, I'm envious! Well done Sharon!

I'm stuck on decluttering, so I have less to transport; I've got web-quotes for removals firms, got to follow them up properly now.

Tony_R

Solicitor has now received the answers to the final questions and it looks good.

He is going to supply a report today, which details everything and I'm hoping the exchange date.