Holiday in the middle of house purchase

rosie383

As others have said, make sure that everything possible is signed before you go and that you are contactable at least by email. You could cancel your holiday only to find that no one is able to complete for months anyway.
From accepting an offer on our property to actually completing, it took 15 months!
In the end, we completed by email while on holiday in Africa.

seven-day-weekend

We sold a flat whilst living in Spain, did everything by post and e-mail.

We sold a house last year, it was online conveyancing, everything done by internet, email and post.

I can't see that there would be anything that two week's holiday at the very beginning of the transaction would hold up.

Make sure your solicitor has everything to do with your ID and proof of deposit etc before you go, anything that needs signing you can do when you come back; anything else can be done by email.

Kynthia

As long as your holiday isn't a surprise to everyone, right at the end of the process when things need doing and agreeing, and you go without signing things that could have been signed before you left, then it will be fine. Buying takes 3 months or much more in the case of leasehold properties and chains, so people go on holiday all the time.