Chances of moving the completion date forward by a day?

sheff6107

Just ask your solicitor to ask their solictor. They'll either say yes or no.

pinkteapot

If the completion date can't be moved...

Most 'proper' removal companies don't charge extra fees unless the move goes past about 6pm (check your contract). Some don't charge extra at all. Check with your company what their policy is and what you've signed up to. The fact they offer a 1pm slot is unusual. Make sure your van isn't booked out for the afternoon and they aren't planning to empty your stuff onto the pavement! If they know you're buying, they should know it won't necessarily be sorted by 1pm.

Being ready at 11am/noon isn't uncommon. With our last move, we were mid-chain. We sold to FTBs. We finished packing up and were out about 11:30am. Our buyers arrived then and we handed the keys to them (to save us and them going to the EA). We got to our new house about noon, but the people were still moving out. We got in about 1:30pm. Our removal guys ate their lunch while they waited.

Obviously you are dependent on the financial bit, but that's usually pretty quick these days. In my last couple of moves, financial and legal completion has happened early morning. The only hold-up has been waiting for the vendor to actually move out (which has happened long after the house is legally ours). As I said, our last move we had to wait until 1:30pm. The one before that was annoying as our vendor didn't finish moving out until 4:45pm! He had a four-bed house and thought he could self-move with a hire van. :mad:

dc197

The removals men will be used to delays. Buy them lunch or some cans of pop while they soak up the sun in your new driveway. That's what we did.
If their work runs past 5pm they might charge you extra; you can often buy an insurance against this for £50 or so whereby you pay nothing more even if it takes all night to get the keys and unload. All this will be detailed by the removals company.

arbrighton

When we moved, as our sellers were moving several hundred miles and wanted their purchase to complete early, our sol sent funds the previous day held to order. We were happy to do this although the cheek of their conveyancer to suggest this after he flatly refused to exchange one afternoon only to do it the next morning, after numerous hold ups caused by him, was a little hard to take

FrankE

Well we've had news that the vendor is happy to complete a day early. Hurrah! The bank has confirmed that the funds will be transferred that day too so all is good Hope I haven't just jinxed it, lol.