Hopefully completing soon

moneypuddle

Hello!

I read this board a lot at the minute but dont usually contribute as I'm normally on my iphone and typing takes far too long!

Just to let you know about my story, my house went on the market last June at £245k -http://www.globrix.com/property-details/30243982-wharfedale_avenue-harrogate-hg2-3_bed-semi_detached_house - and after a couple of changes with estate agents (the first couple were doing nothing at all it seemed) and dropping the price to £230k which was far more realistic, a sale was secured at £222k on 1st of March this year, after a lengthy 9 months on the market. My buyer is a cash buyer (as the person buying hers is a cash buyer), so I was hoping it would all go through very quickly but the buyer's buyer seems to be doing things at a very slow pace.

My new partner and I found a house we were very keen on mid March, on the market at £189k, put it an offer at £185k and it was accepted http://www.nicholls-tyreman.co.uk/property/Hill+Top+Close,%0D%0AHarrogate,%0D%0AHG1/1095.html. The vendors are moving cities into rented accomodation so there is no onward chain.

So now we're a few weeks down the line, going on holiday on friday, back on the 29th and seem to closer to completing. I am so worried that everything is just all going to collapse and every time my phone rings it makes me really nervous. In reality its only 7 weeks since we agreed a sale on my house, and 5 weeks since my partner and I put our offer in on the house we want, but its getting very stressful. I can't wait to go on holiday for the first time together but feel like it's come at a really bad time just in case we need to be doing anything important at home!

Is there any way of hurrying along my buyers buyer? I speak to either the estate agents, mortgage advisor and solicitor at least three times a week and everyone is aware that we want to exchange asap, but I'm so worried that going slowly means the first person in the change is changing their mind and the whole thing might come crumbling down

megzmam

i could've so wrote this thread lol it's just like us time wise and stresswise!! only difference is the house prices 9a lot cheaper this side lol).
we put our house back on the market beginning of this year. . . it had been on market last year but everything fell through at the last minute . . . which i think adds to the stress this time cos i'm always expecting things to go wrong again!!
anyway we accepted an offer on our house from a couple of ftbs beginning of february and a few days later we put in an offer on a house we liked which again was accepted. the house we are buying is without a chain and the couple buying our house this is their first and are in rented accomodation at the minute so we thought!!?? things would go fairly easily and things would move quickly. because we'd already practically sold our house just before xmas last year most things were in place with solicitor so we've been ready to sign for a while as has the owner of the house we are buying its just the buyers of our house thasts holding things up, there mortgage is approved but their solicitors are doing an awful lot of faffing about to say the least plus EA keep ringing up all the time asking daft questions and every time they say its them (the EA's) i panicand think here we go whats gonna happen now!!

no real advice you seem to be trying to keep track of everything the same way as we are i just wanted to say i know exactly how you are feeling and hope you get the good news soon

moneypuddle

Thanks megzmam - its good to know someone else is in the same boat. We too had it all fall through once already. We put our house up for sale in June 2010, and two days later accepted an offer, which dragged on for 3 weeks before falling through as the buyer couldn't get her finances in place. I hadn't found somewhere else at that point but it was still so annoying and heartbreaking. Just can't wait to have the house sold now really. I bought it for £177k in 2008 and have done it up, so it's been 'ready' since June last year to be sold. Fingers crossed for your sale and purchase too!