What was your completion time??

picklepick

Ours has just taken 3.5 months from the chain of 3 being made to completion.

Some survey issues held us up from to 2 months at first. Then after thinking everything was ready at 2 months to exchange, a surprise piece of apparently nontransferable, leasehold land at the end of our new garden popped up from nowhere!
Sometimes things aren't always as simple and straightforward as they first appear.

mqandy

From seeing on rightmove to moving in, 8 weeks.. No chain, FTBs...

There were a lot of busy lunchbreaks in those weeks!

blargh

3 months and counting :mad:

No chain, no complications whatsoever. Just useless and slow solicitors losing stuff and not responding and making excuses etc. If I wasn't so incredibly desperate to complete I'd be ditching them for someone else.

P.s. :mad::mad::mad:

hazyjo

Chain of 3 - took 5 months (despite aiming for 3 weeks to exchange to start with!).

Was a problem with the leasehold garages assigned (or not assigned, as the case may be!) to the freehouse house we bought. Took ages to resolve. Would have taken around 3 months anyway though, I think. That's generally the average.

Jx

fluffymuffy

No chain and we were cash buyers. Still took 5.5 weeks to complete. Why?

greenhill

blargh wrote: »

3 months and counting :mad:

No chain, no complications whatsoever. Just useless and slow solicitors losing stuff and not responding and making excuses etc. If I wasn't so incredibly desperate to complete I'd be ditching them for someone else.

P.s. :mad::mad::mad:

I'm in the same situation......and screaming with frustration along with you:mad:

blargh

greenhill wrote: »

I'm in the same situation......and screaming with frustration along with you:mad:

I'd high-five you in solidarity but I fear we'd break each other's hands from the force of the impact...

:mad::beer::mad::beer::mad:

Mrs_Z

We've made 2 purchases both took 3 months from offer to completion. No chain involved in either.

seven-day-weekend

My son's flat purchase took three months to complete. He was a FTB moving into an empty flat.

However, the reason for the delay was there was some sort of query about the management company's business practices and accounts, which the solicitor had to investigate and sort out, so that was why the delay.

colourfulway

18 weeks. Chain of 3.

The vendors of the house we were buying were moving into rented; the buyers of my flat were first time buyers.
The problem was the buyers' solicitor - who managed to drag out a pretty straightforward sale to over four months. He was even asking [very basic] questions on the day of completion (not like he'd had 18 weeks to raise those queries...)

It was a nightmare! Thankfully our solicitors were fab, and the memories of all the stress has faded since we moved in..