The race to be in for Christmas!

Tomthumb

Great news Bargain & congrats Curley!!!

I have a horrible feeling my buyer is going to pull out tomorrow, solicitors haven't heard anything so I rang my buyer today and he said there was a glitch with finance and he'd know tomorrow whether it was all going ahead!! Great stuff - why not tell us before now??? It will be a major disappointment for us losing the shop and for the elderly couple retiring from the shop

If it does fall through we won't put the hotel back on the market though, it's actually a really good investment property so we'll just live here and look for a leasehold business instead - It's just horrible having things on hold!

chicarg

I am sooooo happy I just had to post: we have just heard our mortgage application was approved and an offer issued!!!!

As FTBs we were so anxious waiting for this, it is a great feeling knowing that at least that part has gone right...:beer:

now lest hope vendor's sols get his act together so we can move soon!

mrsc_4

Slight update, title deed pack received paperwork we needed isn't there (we knew this anyway, we know there isn't any planning permission or building regs) Vendor going into see Solicitor later EA thinks she is going to need to go to the Council to see whether there is any planning permisson or building regs - ARHH we know there isn't!

So one step forward and one step back its like the hokey cokey

Roma_3

TomThumb ....distraught for you and really hope that you will have a pleasant surprise??
Cicarg.. delighted for you .. I remember (vaguely!! ) how exciting it is to be a FTB!! :T
Mrsc ...I hope and pray that we will all have great news from you very soon ...the "nothing happening" is just the worst part!!
Meanwhile I am getting more and more nervous about seeing the solicitor at 4pm!!

pawpurrs

:j Woohoo, congratulations BR,:j

Your going to be in before me!:rolleyes:

sallywl

Yaaaay postie yesterday delivered a HUGE envelope full of survey reports, deeds, how much we need to cough up *eek* LOL actually is a little less than anticipated , the fixtures and fittings stuff a contract thing to sign etc.... sooo excited .... till we read it.

Sooooo boring esp the deeds.... and !!!!!! are Chattles?

Anyway Ive signed, BF has signed just got to get the witnesses to sign (ppl at Bf's work) and then thats going back in the post

How long now???
anyone any ideas on average time and what happens next?

mrsc_4

Good luck this afternoon Roma don't forget to update us

leftieM

Congrats! I hope noone is still on this thread in Jan.
I think we're nearly there.
Our solicitor leaned on our buyers sending a letter saying they'd better get their act together or the sale was off. The leaning worked as the mortgage offer has been faxed over from the Halifax to their solicitor but in the meantime our anxious FTBers thought we were going to change our minds re sale.
I haven't been paying much attention to house prices here in NI since we agreed the sales but I gather (from sols) our buyers will have clocked up 10k or more of equity by the time we complete. So at least they'll feel they made the right decision and have a bit of a cushion. They're nice people. I hope it works out for them in the long run.
I feel confident enough to pack a few more boxes now!

angel1976

Congrats chicarg! I know we were most worried about the mortgage offer so we were thrilled to finally receive it so congrats to you. Just hope the rest of the journey is a good one! :j

Hey mrsc, don't get discouraged... Any step forward is better than none!

Roma, congrats on signing the contracts (read it on another thread!). We have signed ours as well, just waiting for the exchange bit now. Hoping it would happen early next week. Do you think we will be jinxing it if we went and ordered some furniture this weekend? :rolleyes: I mean, our sellers have already packed pretty much all their stuff, they can't pull out now!

:rotfl:

chardhouse

chardhouse wrote:

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.

Update-
9/11/06 Vendor has offer accepted on house
Bad news is her seller now has to find a property.
And the chain disappears into the sunset..