The race to be in for Christmas!

leftieM

Thanks for that. We're seeing the solicitor on Tuesday so i want to have a vague idea what the terms mean and I want to know what to ask him.
We haven't been working towards a completion date as noone seems to be too bothered about when to move. Our buyers are just relieved they found somewhere and will rent until we're ready to move and our vendor thought the whole thing would take ages and doesn't need the money from the sale to get her next place so we are the 'chain'.

pawpurrs

:xmastree: We complete on the 29th November, so plenty of time for Christmas and its a real christmassy house with an Inglenook and beams. We have ordered a pole to attach to the outside on the weatherboards to slot a xmas tree in to :xmastree:

dkny_2

welcome to pumpkin pie, and leftiem to the boards make yourself feel at home, we are all in the race to be in for xmas - everything is possible eventhough many done think so, hopfully we will prove them all wrong lol...

pawpurrs looks like you will be in way before xmas, house sounds lovely...beams etc..:j

Roma_3

Pawpurrs .. well done ... don't abandon us in our hour of need now...!! We need loads of re-assurance ya know!! :eek:
We went away for a couple of days to escape the chaos ... came back to letter from solicitor re loads of questions .. don't know the answer to most!!! :mad:
Oh, well ... lets try!!
Hoping to move on Oct 27th but it didn't happen!! Still hoping!! Awaiting an elusive document re our buyer's house!!
Good luck to everyone here ... if we stick together all will be fine!! :j

stphnstevey

I know this might go against this thread - but I DON'T want to complete before Xmas!!

The property we are moving from we are going to let out. I would much prefer doing this after xmas than around xmas, so I am happy to let things take as long as they like.

pawpurrs

Promise not to abandon you all, will keep my fingers crossed.

hex2

Pawpurrs - it sounds lovely. Ours is victorian and full of beams too - fingers crossed for an old fashioned christmas. Not booking the goose till we have a completion date.

Supposed to be working towards 8th December.......

cantwaittomove

Hi - Im new to this site, Hi to everyone on this thread - good to see we are all in the same boat.

My recent history is as follows:
Accepted offer from FTB 10/10
Offer accepted on new house 23/10
Survey on our house 1/11
Survey on new house 7/11
Moving date - cant come quickly enough!

Im keeping my fingers crossed that things run smoothly and in a timely fashion. The chain is small as our buyers are first tiem buyers in rented and the vendors on our new house have already moved into a rented house (they have relocated with their job).

The only complication is that the house we are buying is currently leasehold and the vendor is buying the freehold for completion. Does anyone know if this could possibly hold things up?

angel1976

Hi hex2, we have the same completion date! Fingers crossed... Getting very excited now.

dkny, yes, £300 sounds about right for those searches... We paid £220 for the searches but who's counting? I just seem to be writing out cheques left, right and centre in the beginning! :rolleyes:

Welcome to all the newbies, Pumpkin Pie, leftieM, Roma and cantwaittomove (and even to stphnstevey, we hope you will be last in this race then so you can complete after Christmas!). Good luck housebuying luck to all! Keep us updated and ask any questions you wish... Pumpkin P, don't worry about your mortgage offer... We had a big scare with ours (hubby is on a variable pay scheme and we had to jump through hoops to prove we can offer the mortgage!) but it all went through without much delay, three weeks to get our formal mortgage offer. So don't worry, you will be fine.

Ax

chardhouse

Offer accepted 11/9/06
Solicitors contacted 12/9/06
Mortgage approved

Nothing at all since then.
Boo.
Still waiting for vendor to find a property to move to so no point in getting surveys and searches done.
So frustrating but I hope it's worthwhile in the end.
8 weeks of nothing.