Property buying/selling timeline - currently into week 21
04/12/20: Both properties listed for sale
11/01/21: Offers
accepted on both sales & on our joint purchase
25/01/21: Identity checks completed, solicitors instructed
27/01/21: Purchase survey & valuation complete, mortgage offer
received
05/02/21: Reduction agreed on partner's sale (under-valuation) & on
purchase. Mortgage offer amended
08/02/21: Buyers pack returned to solicitor - sellers packs already returned
26/02/21:
Partner's sale contract signed
10/03/21: Purchase searches all back
16/03/21: My sale contract signed
28/03/21: Purchase enquiries satisfied, Title
Report & contracts issued, contracts signed & returned
11/05/21: Still waiting on final enquiry in the adjoining chain to be resolved. Consent to break the chain granted, instruction to move to exchange given.
17/05/21: All parties agreed to June 3rd for completion
27/05/21: Exchanged on my sale only
28/05/21: ALL EXCHANGED!
03/06/21: Completion
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The "have a look at this!" thread II
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Ditto, down to the front door. http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-62130997.html :rotfl:
Bring back colour!
Not sure I have ever seen that sort of bathroom/utility arrangement before. Makes sense I suppose in the limited space but doesn't seem a very relaxing way to take a bath lying there thinking about whether the washing will dry for morning.0 -
Bring back colour!
Not sure I have ever seen that sort of bathroom/utility arrangement before. Makes sense I suppose in the limited space but doesn't seem a very relaxing way to take a bath lying there thinking about whether the washing will dry for morning.
I've often thought the bathroom is the ideal place for the washing machine - clothes straight off and into the machine.
The house we've just bought has a huge utility room; if we cannot make it up the stairs when we're old we plan to convert it into a bedroom with ensuite shower room, the washing machine may well end up in the shower room.Make £2025 in 2025
Prolific £617.02, Octopoints £5.20, TCB £398.58, Tesco Clubcard challenges £89.90, Misc Sales £321, Airtime £60, Shopmium £26.60, Everup £24.91 Zopa CB £30
Total (4/9/25) £1573.21/£2025 77%
Make £2024 in 2024
Prolific £907.37, Chase Int £59.97, Chase roundup int £3.55, Chase CB £122.88, Roadkill £1.30, Octopus ref £50, Octopoints £70.46, TCB £112.03, Shopmium £3, Iceland £4, Ipsos £20, Misc Sales £55.44Total £1410/£2024 70%Make £2023 in 2023 Total: £2606.33/£2023 128.8%0 -
it was all going so well, nice and "authentic", then I got to pic 46 and thought, err, magnolia has its uses
http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-48272625.html
Ok so the slime green bedroom and 1950's kitchen are not much fun but what a house! That is my dream place0 -
No grey here, but a little unexpected black and white :rotfl:
http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-67057733.html0 -
No grey here, but a little unexpected black and white :rotfl:
http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-67057733.html
Poor effort on their behalf. Either in all photos or in none IMO.
Also the Gollys in pic 14 may not be to all tastes (obviously unlikely to come with the house I do realise).0 -
http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-67375112.html
Kitchen/diner ok until see the wall of the diner end not plastered etc
Beige loo and lime green basin and bathThis is a system account and does not represent a real person. To contact the Forum Team email forumteam@moneysavingexpert.com0 -
ScarletMarble wrote: »http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-67375112.html
Kitchen/diner ok until see the wall of the diner end not plastered etc
Beige loo and lime green basin and bath
Oh dear - lotta work to be done on both house and garden.
My mind boggled at the piping thing to cookerhood being out "on show" like that. Guess that equals a DIY(not) person in the household fitted that kitchen - as tubing like that is hidden by wall units in a properly-fitted kitchen (yep...when I had mine done recently - all that piping is up in the loft - courtesy of it being a bungalow). If it had been a "house" - then the wall units would have gone up to the ceiling to hide it.0 -
No grey here, but a little unexpected black and white :rotfl:
http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-67057733.html
Crikey. There are panda toys* in one of the photos so I can only imagine it’s the vendor who though it would a tremendous wheeze. What a lot of fun they must be. I suspect that 'You don’t have to be mad to live here, but it helps!' is written on something in that house.
*and gollies, which, at the risk of starting a political correctness row, I’d have kept out of the photos.0 -
No grey here, but a little unexpected black and white :rotfl:
http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-67057733.html
Do people think this is a good idea and more importantly, why do EA's let them do this? Its just odd.0 -
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