The race to be in for Christmas!

Poppycat

Congratulations Lotta and Lucy, hope it goes well for you.

Sure is a rollercoaster ride buying and selling property.

Vickicb

Having a nightmare today. Our vendor also owns the house next door and they were knocked through at one point, now being sold seperately. When they redivided the garden our side was given a greater proportion than the original boundaries due to an immovable feature in the centre of the garden. The fence was clearly there when we all viewed and our side is more expensive to reflect this (and a kitchen extension).

The contract we signed last week showed the old bounary, but today we received the new contract with the new boundaries shown on it. So no problem....

Except the buyers of next door are disputing the new boundary. Now seeing as the fence was up before they viewed they must have known the plans would reflect this. But now they are causing a huge delay which means everything we've done to move in by Christmas and get the kids into their new schools for the start of term may all have been in vain.

:mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad:

missbee

dkny wrote:

Oh last nite was the worst nite couldnt help thinkin that the buyers pulled out

BUT just returned call to EA askin them if everythin is still ok... He said yeah everythin is good :T , the buyers are desperate to move in asap :j - THANK GOODNESS i feel happy again now , i said its not in our hands we have provided everything the solictors have asked for even signed the selling contract last week ... so EA is gonna chase the solictors this morning :T ...i have never been this worried in all my life :eek: , im usually very carm and stress free :eek:
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PHEW!!! Sounds like they want to get things moving - you might find it all quickly falls into place now. Keep us informed!;)

missbee

Descartes wrote:

Exchanged today, move Friday. I am waiting for some bad news as we havn't had any for a few weeks. Something must go wrong soon.

That's a quick time in between - not much time for things to go wrong now!! Good luck with the move!!!

Roma_3

Great news for some of you .. well done!!! :j
Dreadful news for us though and we are now out of the run for this thread " in for Xmas!" .....devastated ... (see my other post "We were about to exchnage..." Can't belive it all right now!

jamminjamaica

Descartes wrote:

Exchanged today, move Friday. I am waiting for some bad news as we havn't had any for a few weeks. Something must go wrong soon.

just be glad that nothing has happened. congrats! i guess you better start getting yourself all packed up.

let us know how you get on.

angel1976

Lucy, Lotta and Descartes, CONGRATULATIONS! :beer: Here's to a hassle-free completion!

We are still waiting to exchange on Friday, fingers crossed. dkny, fingers crossed that all your searches will be alright, just make sure you know what queries your solicitors are raising and what the progress is on those. Our mortgage broker hassled the vendor's solicitor directly (don't know if that is recommended protocol but we were at out wits' end!) and it seemed to have worked (hopefully).

Ax

Lotta_Littlies

dkny - so pleased it's all ok for you and the worrying turned out to be needless - phew!

Roma - ((hugs))

Descartes - hoping it all goes well for you with completion and you have the new keys safely in your hand Friday afternoon.

Vickicb - what a disaster! I do hope the dispute is sorted out asap. It's all such a hassle when you've got the children to sort out too. Keep us informed.

Lotta

mrsc_4

Finally mortgage provider approved the indemnity insurance so now we can exchange HOORAH!!!!

Frantic phone calls, our buyer is transfering his money and should be with solicitors on monday for exchange and then completion on the 6th Dec

I'm so excited that we are this far forward won't be happy till exchange and once we have completed I'll be...................

Still no packing is taking place till exchange!!

lewolf

Hi all,

We've been in this race since 25th October. Our vendor has no forward chain and is going back to the USA and our buyer has a chain free buyer for thier property. Despite the lack of time all parties agree they want to be in by Xmas.

Everyone has moved mountains to get all the legal issues and surveys done immediately and mortgage offers are in etc. We are still waiting for a couple of searches to come back and a few queries to be answered, but otherwise everything is fine.

This week we got the news that our buyer needs two weeks and three days between excahnge and completion because the removal firm need this for an International move and can't book a provisional date.

Now nobody wants to move the friday before Xmas - least of all the removal firms who probably want their office party before going home for the holiday. So if we move the week before Xmas - we basically have to exchange next week - which I can't see with queries outstanding and contracts to be drawn.

Unless a miracle happens it looks more like exchange December and move early january.