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The race to be in for Christmas!
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goldbyron ... best of luck on the 30/11 ...:beer:
Pumpkin ...sorry about your experience and obvious expense too .. gotta be better next time, in the meantime you can relax for a while??!
Tomthumb ....let us know what happens ..!!!0 -
Just got off phone with dh. Exchange is ready to take place (again!) and everyone in chain has given confirmation that they want to exchange today. Praying hard it all happens today.
Lotta"One hundred years from now, it will not matter what my bank account was, how big my house was, or what kind of car I drove. But the world may be a little better, because I was important in the life of a child."0 -
Good one Lotta - that sounds promising. Should all happen at 4.59pm - normal practice!
When are you completing?0 -
Completing 28th November apparently! Will get excited once exchange has been done and not before.
Lotta"One hundred years from now, it will not matter what my bank account was, how big my house was, or what kind of car I drove. But the world may be a little better, because I was important in the life of a child."0 -
Best of luck Lotta and Roma.
NR have now told me that although they are no longer holding a retention they have downvalued the property so I am now borrowing 91% which puts me on a 0.3% higher rate - difference of about £60 per month :eek:
Too late to tell them to shove it and go elsewhere, everyone is just waiting on our mortgage offer to exchange early next week. I have instead agreed to increase our deposit to take us back up to 90% of their valuation, otherwise it was going to cost me £1700 to borrow an additional £2700 over the next two years. Just means some of the works will have to wait and be done out of monthly income :rolleyes:.
My solicitor says as long as we have a mortgage offer for the end of the week then we are on for the 8th, the other two in the chain are ready to go and are pushing for exchange, so everything crossed for a happy end to this week.
Hope everyone else is going to plan.'If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need' Marcus Tullius Cicero0 -
Good move with the deposit Hex 2! Hope it goes through next week for you.0
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Good luck Hex, hope it all happens next week for you.
Lotta"One hundred years from now, it will not matter what my bank account was, how big my house was, or what kind of car I drove. But the world may be a little better, because I was important in the life of a child."0 -
Hi Everyone,
Just cathing up on this thread as been away over weekend as our buyers want to complete in the next coupla weeks or so...No news from solictor regarding purchase but will be callin solictor this afternoon for our weekly update...
Just wanna say good luck to everyone exchanging and completing, cant wait when we will be in that position...
Can i ask, how long did it take for your local search to come through?? Still waiting on this last one..
Completed House Purchase And LOVIN' IT:D 0 -
Good news, :j :j :j
Our last and final search is back local one, I feel so happy... But what happens next??
I just felt like everything was at a standstill till this one was back...Am hoping and praying i will hear more now that all the searches are back..
Thats my update lol, will call next week now. Very pleased as i was hoping this would be back sometime soon.
Good luck everyone :beer:Completed House Purchase And LOVIN' IT:D 0 -
Quick update -
1) Yes you can't use the same solicitors due to confilct of interest. Oh well, at leats that means we looked for another one and -
2) Instructed solicitors using Abode Conveyancing - £400 saving on the one recommended by the agents!
3) Trying not to get excited in case it all falls through...
4) Making very long lists of companies to change address with, things to do, etc etc etc...0
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