The NEW waiting to exchange thread...

birdmadgirl8

@Rach273 🌼 Really hope this is light at end of the ridiculously long tunnel & you get that September wedding free of house stress.

WorriedKirkels

Tiddleshalifax said:

Congratulations to all exchangers and good luck for completion!! 

We got the keys around 2.30 and we’ve been busy sorting the kitchen and putting up beds etc - we are buzzing!! 

Good luck to those not quite there yet!! It will happen - I’m positive!! And I’ll be checking to see how you all do ❤️‍🔥

Fantastic news - so happy for you 😁 Enjoy your new home 🏡 x

birdmadgirl8

Tiddleshalifax said:

Congratulations to all exchangers and good luck for completion!! 

We got the keys around 2.30 and we’ve been busy sorting the kitchen and putting up beds etc - we are buzzing!! 

Good luck to those not quite there yet!! It will happen - I’m positive!! And I’ll be checking to see how you all do ❤️‍🔥

Happy news at the end of a long week. So pleased for you 🌻💛🌻

Cookie211

Congratulations all who have exchanged and completed, so happy for u all, good luck to the rest of us, hopefully we will have good news soon 🤞🤞🤞🤞

[Deleted User]

So how far are we all right now
for us
mortgage offered, searches due back next week draft contracts sent to buyer and received from our purchase 

buyers valuer due any time today 

TheScone

Congrats to all who have exchanged this week and I hope a few more of us get lucky today!

Today is 3 weeks since our offer was accepted and we have asked our sol to order searches and had our mortgage offered.

Need to arrange a survey but can’t decide whether to go with a full structural survey as recommended since the house is about 70 years old… it looks in great condition though, not a renovation project in the slightest, so just wondering if the extra money is worth it. What have other people experienced with surveys?

E_D_FTB

TheScone said:

Congrats to all who have exchanged this week and I hope a few more of us get lucky today!

Today is 3 weeks since our offer was accepted and we have asked our sol to order searches and had our mortgage offered.

Need to arrange a survey but can’t decide whether to go with a full structural survey as recommended since the house is about 70 years old… it looks in great condition though, not a renovation project in the slightest, so just wondering if the extra money is worth it. What have other people experienced with surveys?

We went for full structural - not that there seemed to be signs of issues, but to just give us the fullest picture of what we were buying and what maintenance we might need to do in the next few years. 

For the sake of a hundred or so extra quid, it seems worth it to me to get the most detailed report - better that than spend hundreds of thousands to find out there's a major issue.

Toots0293

Hi, just wanting to hear of others experiences at this stage. My solicitor emailed me earlier this week saying that they are finalising the Report on Title, which they will send to me for signing along with the contract papers and completion statement (in readiness for exchanging contracts). They mentioned once I have those I should contact the seller to arrange a completion date.. does this mean I am nearing the end?! There is no chain and I’ve been told the seller is willing to go at my pace, but how long did you guys wait to get the keys after this point? Thank you!  

greensalad

TheScone said:

Congrats to all who have exchanged this week and I hope a few more of us get lucky today!

Today is 3 weeks since our offer was accepted and we have asked our sol to order searches and had our mortgage offered.

Need to arrange a survey but can’t decide whether to go with a full structural survey as recommended since the house is about 70 years old… it looks in great condition though, not a renovation project in the slightest, so just wondering if the extra money is worth it. What have other people experienced with surveys?

We just had our survey back on a 55 year old house that looked in great condition. Our surveyor was incredibly thorough and it has 100% been worth it. There are so many things on it that you'd think were fine but are not. I 100% recommend going FSS. It gives you a full picture and a list of maintenance tasks for your new home.

TheScone

E_D_FTB said:

TheScone said:

Congrats to all who have exchanged this week and I hope a few more of us get lucky today!

Today is 3 weeks since our offer was accepted and we have asked our sol to order searches and had our mortgage offered.

Need to arrange a survey but can’t decide whether to go with a full structural survey as recommended since the house is about 70 years old… it looks in great condition though, not a renovation project in the slightest, so just wondering if the extra money is worth it. What have other people experienced with surveys?

We went for full structural - not that there seemed to be signs of issues, but to just give us the fullest picture of what we were buying and what maintenance we might need to do in the next few years. 

For the sake of a hundred or so extra quid, it seems worth it to me to get the most detailed report - better that than spend hundreds of thousands to find out there's a major issue.

That's what I'm thinking, it does take what we had budgeted for the survey over by £170, so I'll have to recheck that we can actually afford it first!

But for the surveyor we have been recommended (who seems to have glowing reviews) even the homebuyers survey is significantly more than we budgeted. I thought about going elsewhere but when someone hasn't been recommended how can you know they will do a great job...

Might just have to take the hit to make sure it is done right.