First time buyer (NO CHAIN) 14 weeks now since offer accepted - Please help :(

hazyjo

Average purchase takes 12 weeks from offer to completion. Flats are often longer. I would be putting the pressure on, but it's really not that long, even though it feels like it. Took me 5 very long months to buy a house once. I've also bought in 5 weeks.


Good luck!


Jx

anto164

I went through the same - It took us just over 18 weeks to exchange, and we completed 19 weeks and 1 day from offer acceptance.

My thought is that the property that we had offered on was absolutely perfect, and we could afford the wait. The vendor was moving to a vacant property, but this was where all the delays were from, problems with the vendors onward purchase. Hang fire, i'm sure it'll work out quickly. I found that there was no movement, no movement, no movement, then a flurry and all of a sudden we had exchanged contracts and moved in 5 days later.

Brightspark87

Hi just to say - don't get disheartened just keep chasing and chasing. We had the same with ours but luckily great agent and solicitors. They will soon be getting fed up of the chasing and get a wiggle on!

also just so you know, even when we were literally there with exchange our solicitors didn;t put a time line on it. We are talking literally even 48 hours before exchange happen they wouldn't commit.

HouseBuyer77

Are you in touch with the vendor directly?

You need to determine precisely what the hold-up is on their end.

As above the inherited property could be causing issues. They may have declared themselves ready to move in because they had the keys, they might even have cleared the place out and started moving in. But their solicitor will have advised them to not continue until they have full legal ownership of the house (don't want to move into a place and then find out you don't own it after all).

nkkingston

Ours has taken four months. Sometimes vendors see being chain free as a reason not to move quickly - they've got all the time in the world to do up their new place and make it perfect, and you're not going to disappear on them. Why not replaster the lounge before they move in? Why not relay the lawn?

dc197

The following is not to be pedantic, but to assist you in setting your viewpoint and your expectations correctly.

Adrianne wrote: »

Me and my partner ... have just bought out first ever property

You have not bought it yet. You have only had your offer accepted.
As you have discovered (and I do sympathise) there are a lot more hurdles to cross before the purchase is done.

Adrianne wrote: »

been in contact with my estate agent

He's not your estate agent, he's the seller's agent. Remember who pays him, and to whom he answers: the seller.

Adrianne

dc197 wrote: »

The following is not to be pedantic, but to assist you in setting your viewpoint and your expectations correctly.


You have not bought it yet. You have only had your offer accepted.
As you have discovered (and I do sympathise) there are a lot more hurdles to cross before the purchase is done.


He's not your estate agent, he's the seller's agent. Remember who pays him, and to whom he answers: the seller.

I am only young and have never done anything like this before... I think enough people knew what I meant :T