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  • Mrs_CP
    Mrs_CP Posts: 50 Forumite
    edited 16 January 2017 at 3:52PM
    We have a really short chain and everything so far has been straightforward but we are now into week 11 since our offer was accepted. We are nearly there, with loose ends being tied up as I type, but our solicitor is still very hesitant to commit to confirming we are on the home straight. As has previously been stated, it seems to be the searches and the resulting queries that delay things.


    I keep telling myself that this is just a short wait, and I will have lots of time to sit back and enjoy being in my new home.... once I get there!


    Good luck
  • Good news!! Searches shall be done by Friday...We are away on holiday next week so that's a nothing week...But we could be signing on the Monday...Then is it true you have to wait 2 weeks before getting keys??
  • Elfbert
    Elfbert Posts: 578 Forumite
    Ninth Anniversary 500 Posts Combo Breaker
    No, you wait whatever time is agreed by you, your solicitor, the buyer and the buyer's solicitor - depending on money being available (drawn down) from the mortgage, and last bits of moving, packing, booking vans/removals trucks and who can be off work when etc.

    You could do it same day. You could wait a month.
    Mortgage - £[STRIKE]68,000 may 2014[/STRIKE] 45,680.
  • G_M
    G_M Posts: 51,977 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Name Dropper Combo Breaker
    You keep asking basic questions.

    Why not follow the advice in post 8 so that you fully understand how this complex, and highly important (not to say expensive) process works?

    And where did you get 14 steps? More like 84.
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