The NEW waiting to exchange thread...

Regina.filangie

Congrats Ougat!

Did you exchange Pumpkim????

I have good news - we have all finally agreed to completion this Friday 17th with exchange tomorrow - the day before! My vendor has also kindly offered to leave the washing machine and fridge freezer which is a bonus as I’m having to leave mine for my buyers. One less thing to have to buy. She’s also getting the boiler serviced tomorrow as requested.
Can’t bekieve this is actually happening. More packing and cleaning for me tonight....

Pumpkim

We've exchanged:j
Completion on 8th December.
It's been a long old slog since offering and accepting an offer in July and I feel like a weight's been lifted!
Now to get on with the organising
Good luck tomorrow Regina and everyone else aiming for this week!

Cheery_Daff

Congratulations to those of you who have exchanged! :j :j :j Most jealous

We're booked to see the solicitor to sign stuff tomorrow, and to do a final viewing of the house on Monday :j

Building society still haven't sent official reply to solicitor about the issue they said was fine on the phone yesterday - I assume (hope) it will arrive tomorrow...

And if the seller's estate agent emails me one more time with 'your solicitor says he hasn't got your mortgage offer!!!' I might have to throttle her! :wall:

dancing_star

High five to Ougat and Pumpkim - I finally exchanged today too and complete on 29th!

Didn't go without drama, the EA emailed me first thing to say he was ringing the conveyancers every hour on the hour until they got their act together.

I was in meetings most of the day so couldn't check my phone. Then at 4pm my solicitor rang and said "thank **** for that, we've exchanged!"

Did a little dance round the office.

Fingers crossed for all still waiting.

RXT156

Great to hear lots of people have exchanged (slightly jealous though:cool:!!!)

Waiting for the searches to come back now. How long is this likely to be? What was your personal experience?

Ringing Solicitors weekly for updates. Hoping that if I am annoying enough they will get a shufffle on with everything to get rid of me :rotfl::rotfl:

Scotbot

My searches took 4 weeks but it depends on the council. I hope to exchange on Monday but I have such cold feet about the house I wouldn't care if it fell through! I am not good with commitment....

Pumpkim

Our searches came back pretty quickly, a week or two at most. it was the queries that were raised from the searches that took all the time!

raiyar

Any first time buyers who have exchanged this week and completing this month?

juniordoc

I exchanged last Friday and will be completing 1st December.
Still haven't started packing but don't need to be out of our rental until the 8th.
Does anyone have a mortgage and NOT have life insurance? Ours doesn't seem to stipulate we must have it....

Cheery_Daff

Ours doesn't stipulate that either juniordoc. However there are two of us, and if one of us dies it will be nice for the other not to have to be worried about the mortgage on top of everything else.

If we weren't buying such an expensive house we might not have bothered, especially as we don't have kids, and have a 50% deposit so we'd be able to just sell up and move somewhere cheaper. But I'd rather have time to think about that than be forced into it after a death.

Not getting critical illness or unemployment cover though - I have decent sick pay and redundancy so were hoping (should anything happen) they will cover anything...