The NEW waiting to exchange thread...

Lemonyrose13

Update... So for the first time since instructing our conveyancer 15 weeks ago, her direct line actually connected and I spoke to her!!! She's waiting on the green light from our lender (which she's going to chase after lunch) and is hopping we can exchange either this afternoon or first thing tomorrow! We have a small chain (2 houses) who told us last week they wanted to make the Stamp Duty Holiday and now it's just us holding things up, they are all ready to exchange and the estate agent has been chasing me several times a day for an update for the last 4 working days! Fingers crossed exchange happens and we do actually complete on Monday! Just a case of holding my breath now and keeping my fingers crossed 🤞🏻

laura_lau

So many people expecting to exchange today, this is amazing! Fingers crossed it happens smoothly for everybody!
Don't really know if it's an update, but I've called the agent and they said the documents from property management, according to the seller's solicitor, have arrived, so it's just a matter of lender confirming they will be releasing funds in 5 days and, of course, of the solicitors doing their bit in time. She said her colleague emailed both solicitors today as they were kind of expecting to exchange today. Not holding my breath, as I haven't heard anything from my solicitor, but let's call it a glimmer of hope!

bellabella

And we have exchanged completion is the 30th and breathe just need to carry on with the packing and a quick clean through next week after the removal people have been

laura_lau

@bellabella congratulations!!! big relief and time to celebrate! Really happy to see exchanges happening!

Firsttime2021

bellabella said:

And we have exchanged completion is the 30th and breathe just need to carry on with the packing and a quick clean through next week after the removal people have been

Amazing!! Well done 

clare19811

I've been reading this thread for a while and thought I'd join in if that's ok as somewhere to vent, ask advice and keep track of what's going on!

We're currently renting, but we had a property that we rented out which we've sold to a cash buyer. We need to funds from this sale for our purchase but we don't need everything to happen at the same time! We had the offer on 2nd June and it's now all in the hands of the solicitors. There have been a few issues from the survey and we're still waiting for those to be ironed out, two out of three issues have been checked and are nowhere near as bad as the survey suggested, just waiting on the third issue now. Solicitors are doing their thing in the background too.

We had an offer accepted on a property on Friday and we're doing a full mortgage application with Clydesdale tomorrow. Feeling very, very nervous about the whole things as it's taken us 6 years of clearing debts, repairing credit files and saving to get to this point, and it really is our dream house! Our sellers are moving to a new build which will be ready in September but they're happy to move out as soon as we're ready, so we're really hoping to meet the September Stamp Duty deadline. I'm quietly hoping for August but I know that might be very unrealistic!

I'm loving reading all your stories and it's great to know we're not alone in finding all this very stressful!

CLJ2986

Does anyone else get anxiety before calling solicitor for an update or is it just me? I worry that they will tell me to go away and stop calling them 🤣🤣🤣

Kaysee24

CLJ2986 said:

Does anyone else get anxiety before calling solicitor for an update or is it just me? I worry that they will tell me to go away and stop calling them 🤣🤣🤣

I know what you mean. I find it worse when you get an unexpected call from the estate agent though, always go straight to worst case scenario (the buyers have pulled out) in my head 🤣🤣

laura_lau

CLJ2986 said:

Does anyone else get anxiety before calling solicitor for an update or is it just me? I worry that they will tell me to go away and stop calling them 🤣🤣🤣

Yes I get that every time, and also when I call the agent! To be honest, I'm one of those people who've always hated making phone calls, if I need to call the bank etc I always rehearse what I'm going to say ahead of the call! So all this calling daily agent, solicitor etc, is really quite an achievement on my end!  

CLJ2986

laura_lau said:

CLJ2986 said:

Does anyone else get anxiety before calling solicitor for an update or is it just me? I worry that they will tell me to go away and stop calling them 🤣🤣🤣

Yes I get that every time, and also when I call the agent! To be honest, I'm one of those people who've always hated making phone calls, if I need to call the bank etc I always rehearse what I'm going to say ahead of the call! So all this calling daily agent, solicitor etc, is really quite an achievement on my end!  

Ha i do that too, I hate talking on the phone! I hate it even more when it's someone calling me and I have no idea who's on the other end 🤣🤣🤣 no one answered anyway. I tried twice. Sent an email this morning that is so far unanswered, now debating an email to the EA but I think she is definitely getting fed up of me lol!