The NEW waiting to exchange thread...

cherrypancakes

Natbag said:

I can't believe it! Completion is next Thursday (3rd June).
Honestly thought it would never happen after 9 stressful months and after everything we've had thrown at us.
So happy. Thank you everyone for the support, hand holding, frustration sharing, it means so much.

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO congratulations!!!!

amyr

@Natbag that is fabulous news!!!! Absolutely thrilled for you! 


Our news, we've completed! Wahoooo!! Everything now in storage, moved out, keys handed over! What a relief.

BountyBlink

Natbag said:

I can't believe it! Completion is next Thursday (3rd June).
Honestly thought it would never happen after 9 stressful months and after everything we've had thrown at us.
So happy. Thank you everyone for the support, hand holding, frustration sharing, it means so much.

Back of the net!!!!!!!! WOOOOOO HOOOO!!!! 

I will catch up this evening with everyone else! Mad panic to organise a friends birthday at a beach hut!! 

Thrugelmir

Josephgousto said:

Solicitor send over completion statements today and asked me to transfer monies. My chaps limit is 50k, but the amount due is 4 times that! How do I go around that? Just transfer parts of it for the next few days? Thanks!! 

CHAPS can only be performed by your bank and the sums are unlimited.  Not to be confused with the daily limits you can transfer from your own current account yourself. 

cherrypancakes

@amyr congratulations have a lovely weekend in your new home!

olgadapolga

Thrugelmir said:

Josephgousto said:

Solicitor send over completion statements today and asked me to transfer monies. My chaps limit is 50k, but the amount due is 4 times that! How do I go around that? Just transfer parts of it for the next few days? Thanks!! 

CHAPS can only be performed by your bank and the sums are unlimited.  Not to be confused with the daily limits you can transfer from your own current account yourself. 

@Josephgousto

Just to add, my bank transferred £250k for me when I purchased my house, for free, but it took a while to reach the solicitor's account. It took three short phone calls and was a nerve-wracking 24 hours whilst waiting to hear that it had reached their account but it was absolutely fine in the end.

naomibm

@Natbag
YAHOOOOO!!!!! I'm so so chuffed for you! Couldn't have happened to anyone nicer!!!

Bad news here, our solicitor just rang...top of the chain missed their appointment to sign the paperwork so we couldn't exchange. Our movers are now threatening to pull out unless we exchange on Tuesday. I'm so so frustrated...I feel like I'm doing all the chasing and calling round...and noone else is. How did our vendor NOT know that the top of the chain hadn't signed the contract yet? 

Saddlerstu

No further news on my chain today despite many calls to solicitors and estate agents. Top of the chain apparently pushing for an exchange date of Wednesday at the latest, however, they are apparently the ones holding things up with their buyers solicitor (an indemnity clause required so I've been told but not forthcoming). My contracts & transfer docs are all signed and with my solicitor, who's now closed until Wednesday, not quite 5 o'clock yet though so still a little hope left for me lol 🤞

Caz_Mnaz

@Natbag you beautyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!!!!!!!!

Long anxious wait over the bank to hol for us... Top of chain Inc my sellers have neither confirmed or denied 11th is OK for them 😬

caz_cardiff87

@Natbag - I've exchanged too! Completion on the 2nd! YAY FOR US!!!