The NEW waiting to exchange thread...

birdmadgirl8

@T_J_A_8691 Blimey - sounds messy and frustrating. You're doing all the right things in terms of chasing and keeping on top of things. I find that short & direct emails are most likely to get a response. I keep all parties in the loop and try not to show my annoyance, even when I'm truly wound up. No concrete advice to give really. Just hope it works out for you.

mat1964

birdmadgirl8 said:

@mat1964 Oof - cannot believe the saga with your girlfriend's sale is plodding like this. The rudeness of that solicitor is totally out of order. I can't recall whether you went ahead with your purchase in the end, so hope this isn't holding everything up. I seem to remember your GF was going to ditch these buyers, but I guess she thought better off it. Really hope this gets sorted soon. 

thanks :-)  yes the purchase is still going ahead completing 1 September - my sale has exchanged and if my GF's doesn't work out, I have a mortgage as back up (but then we would have to pay additional stamp duty an an early repayment charge, so would rather not).  She intended to ditch the buyers but then they reappeared with a mortgage offer and given they had their searches etc, we really had to carry on.   The buyers refuse to communicate at all, relying on their solicitor, and the solicitor has been impossible.  We are now concerned that if it does exchange, there might be issues on completion day given she takes weeks to do anything.  

At least our new build house is looking good - we visited it last week and are very pleased with how it has turned out.  Berkeley Homes have been excellent thus far and touch wood it seems the 1/9 date will not slip.

goodwithsaving

@WorriedKirkels
All was fine in the end, my buyer has had the mortgage approved. The EA hadn't told me but I am in touch with the buyer. I sincerely hope it goes through to completion because I can't imagine anybody better suited for my house.

ss2020jd

birdmadgirl8 said:

I'm so done with this whole process. Trying to be cheerful, but we'll be hitting 9 months of this soon and everything is chaotic again. We came into latest purchase with buyer intact & contracts signed. We did everything within a week of offer being accepted on 1st June (searches & survey booked, refinanced). BUT, 8 weeks on and we still don't have contract pack from vendors' solicitor & we have no idea where onward chain is with searches etc. We've also been given conflicting information about vendors' onward purchase and yesterday reached a new low of misinformation from agents we're buying with. On the upside, our brilliant agent is making phonecalls, but I'm seeing signs of stuff that collapsed our previous purchase. We have to be sorted by early September, cos I can't take leave after that and my workload goes through the roof. We're doing EVERYTHING we can to update all parties, push for action/ info when necessary, preempt problems, etc. But here we are 🙄

So sorry to hear this @birdmadgirl8. I don’t understand how people can think that is okay. Even more frustrating as you are trying to do everything quickly your end. I thought things would speed up after 30 June.

I hope that things start moving and speed up for you soon. It’s natural to worry that things look like they are going in a less than positive direction but sometimes things can speed up when you least expect it. That’s what I keep telling myself anyway! 

Keeping all crossed for some positive progress for you soon, 

ss2020jd

WorriedKirkels said:

goodwithsaving said:

I was hoping to hear today about my buyers mortgage - it was valued using an AVM hence the worry. It's my second buyer, the first one pulled out after their (much higher sale price) mortgage offer was issued (not SDLT related and it was valued in-person). I feel really low. The not knowing, lack of control, the stress....it's horrible. 

I know that feeling! Last night I told my EA via email to remarket our property as it was week 6 since offer accepted and no survey/valuation/ conveyancing had commenced! They told me not to worry in a text at 10pm and by lunch today my
buyer had their mortgage offer. Totally different this time around selling due to COVID as we had a virtual valuation (glad I didn’t know as I would have stressed over how you can value a property without seeing it)! The EA hasn’t said there are any issues with it and that our buyers are committing to the early/mid September I want to complete by….so hoping we hit that date 😬 x

Wow that got them going! Well done @WorriedKirkels. But six weeks no survey or anything is completely bonkers. We instructed ours as soon as we got the memo (but of course that was after we exchanged and before all the issues with completion but I would still want to show willing and show we are committed and serious).

I hope things start moving for you now and keep moving! xx

ss2020jd

davilown said:

So having completed on our sale on 30th June, we offered on a property the week before.
Hoping to complete by 6th August (cash sale) and be living in our own place a again 

Wow congratulations @davilown. Gives the rest of us hope. Please keep us posted on how it goes and when you get there. 

ss2020jd

Hebblethwaite said:

Two months after my offer was accepted and my solicitor has finally received the draft contracts after it seems the unregistered leasehold issue has been sorted (and I think it was registered all along as I seem to have been sent a copy of the leasehold registration from the 1950s). Lots of paperwork for me to read through this weekend, but the fixtures and fittings form looks good The oven is broken so won't tide me over until I can have a new kitchen fitted, but the vendor is going to leave the curtains, the freestanding fridge, the freezer, the greenhouse and shed for no extra cost, so I'm pretty happy. The existing curtains aren't necessarily my taste and some look a little old, but they will be helpful as temporary window coverings until the mess of the rewiring is over. And my used-for-only-a-few-months (and now in storage) fridge-freezer runs really cold so that the lower part of the fridge is basically unusable (and I couldn't get it fixed within warranty because I didn't want anyone traipsing through my house in early COVID) so having a fridge and freezer left for me is really helpful. Of course, they may be broken or smelly, but the vendor has been honest about the broken oven and didn't strike me as someone who would tolerate a smelly fridge!

Also being left some fitted wardrobes that aren't really fitted and that I will want to take out, but I think they may be a pain for my (elderly) vendor to get rid of, so I won't quibble. Hopefully, I can reform them into a potting bench for the garage, and some plant shelves for the greenhouse.    

It finally feels like this purchase may actually be happening. As long as my vendor's new-build stays on track, things are looking okay!

Sounds like progress @Hebblethwaite. Fingers crossed all stays on track for you. 

I like the idea of repurposing the wardrobes for potting bench and paint shelves too. 

birdmadgirl8

@ss2020jd Thanks for the kind words. I manage to stay hopeful most of the time, but I think the prospect of going back to DIY on this house after another frustrating week just got to me. We thought we'd finished with that when we first got the house ready for the market. Ah, well - hopefully there's a happy surprise for some of us round the corner, as you say. 

birdmadgirl8

@mat1964 At least there's some good news for you around your new build. Those buyers sound hellish, but let's hope they come through in the end. 

WorriedKirkels

goodwithsaving said:

@WorriedKirkels
All was fine in the end, my buyer has had the mortgage approved. The EA hadn't told me but I am in touch with the buyer. I sincerely hope it goes through to completion because I can't imagine anybody better suited for my house.

Fantastic news, so pleased for you! Now we can worry together about getting to completion 😬 I viewed the place we are buying again today to measure up and the vendor confessed to a lot of things not working and asked if we want to renegotiate the price. Nothing was a show stopper for us but tempted to go back and say happy to continue to proceed at the offer we made if they firmly commit to our completion date. Hoping that motivates them as today they seemed to be trying to change the date the whole chain has agreed to in principle 😢 Xx