How long from offer to completion

Bonfire_Bride

We accepted an offer on our house on August 13th. Sellers (with mortgage) were in by 28th October. No further chain and it was pretty smooth.

They were lovely buyers fair play...

ladymarmalade222

Our house went on the market on 15th September, offer accepted on 17th September from open day viewing.

We made and offer for our purchase on 20th September which was accepted same day.

We exchanged last Friday and complete this Friday 11th November. It would have been a week earlier but one of the solicitors dropped a major clanger and then ignored everybody's calls.

Both buyers and our vendor have been really lovely. We all kept in touch and supported each other.

I think we have been very lucky that everybody has been so nice and helpful.

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SG27

Took us four months. Simple purchase no chain. Took my brother in law 9 months (awkward vendor) Depends on many thinks. Is your solicitor fast or slow (ours was slow needed constant chasing) is the other sides solicitor fast or slow, does the vendor have all the information ready to supply does the buyer have a mortgage approved. Plus many more...

ComputeAngel

Took us four months. Tenant in the chain free property refused to leave but eventually left. Depends upon your circumstances

GLM71093

Hi,
Me and my partner put an offer on our house middle of July and completed 30th September, so was about 10 weeks. However we did have some problems along the way with the survey etc which did add some time on to it. Our solicitor was very efficient however I don't think the other sided was.

Good luck!!!

ap1985

I guess it varies on various factors. No case will be the same....

cwhaley1

Hello. Just wanted to add my experience to this as a first time buyer and how I think there can be no accurate estimate of timelines. It varies per case.

Partner and I currently live in a rented house and we were looking for a house to buy. We found somewhere we loved, made an offer of 4% above asking and had it accepted two days later. From then on it was the usual processes, searches, etc. and we now have a move-in date.

Summary of timeline: Offer accepted on 14th October and everything completed by 18th November which was exactly 5 weeks. We've agreed a completion date of 9th December but this could have been earlier.

Sellers were a couple moving back in with their parents and I was fairly hot on ringing for updates. So no chain and mortgage approved in principle from the start. The survey took place on 25th Oct. and was sent back that very night to be approved the following morning. Very, very quick turnaround on this.

It wasn't all plain-sailing though as this was our 4th house we made an offer on! First house went to sealed bids, second house the seller pulled out, third house we were gazumped.