The NEW waiting to exchange thread...

James-may

Just to add that like others I nearly signed the wrong part of my contract, but the seller randomly has almost the same name as me, and my name is kind of rare, luckily I noticed his middle name.

Also my current landlord started the selling process for my current rental just as I scraped together the deposit, when I told him I reckoned I'd be gone in a month he was amazed, as he started the process months before me, and he's still nowhere near exchange.
Strange how things work.

baileykxo

Fingers crossed for everyone this week! Due to complete on Friday but I haven’t heard anything about exchange as of yet! Super nervous but hoping for a positive start to the week 🤞🏻

slightlyfoxd

Happy Monday everyone! Hope everyone's weeks go well on all fronts.

At the end of last week I got gazumped - an old bidder came in weeks (and a lotta money) into the process and upped the price. I've offered to match it to keep going, but don't want to get into a bidding war. I'm FTB and we had signed nearly everything, whereas the other person is in a chain. I'm hoping that's enough to cinch it for me?

The only thing is that, if I lose this property, there's nowhere else on my radar and I'll have to start saving to replace all the cash I'll have lost so far. So it sets me back quite a bit. Fingers crossed - I should hear something from someone today 🙏

Cookie211

Solicitor emailed me and have apologised that’s her secretary put wrong address on there as she put the old house that fell through, the amount was done by sellers solicitor so I have been told to cross it out and put the price we agreed on, going to drop them to her later and hopefully she will email to say they are fine 🤞🤞

Cookie211

heartofzinc said:

Cookie211 said:

Yay it’s Monday, I really hope we all move forward this week and have good news, good luck everyone 

Fingers crossed! Currently waiting on a moving date..all searches are done, mortgages sorted, no chain their end. Not sure what the hold up is 

Fingers crossed u will hear today, I would give them a little email to see where your at 

neydejean

In my house we've started betting food and snacks on whether we'll get an exchange/completion date that week. I've won two weeks in a row with a pessimistic 'no' and voted that again this week. My sweet drawer is overflowing but I am secretly hoping for a loss this time

clare19811

clare19811 said:

We found out yesterday we're not going to make the stamp duty deadline as our seller's new build has been delayed. So that's an extra £2,500 which is a bit painful to swallow but we had budgeted for it just in case. We're now aiming to exchange early September with a completion date mid October. Their solicitor was asking for exchange with an open ended completion (at least I think that's what they meant), but we're not going to be tied in like with no end in sight, but it seems they're now happy to set a completion date around 14th October. 

I keep telling myself it will all work out and be worth it in the long run!

Our solicitor is back today after a week off and we had an email before 8am saying our sellers are happy to break the chain so that we can be in before the end of September. No idea what's caused the change of heart but I suspect they might have been told about a further delay with their new build.

I've emailed our solicitor back to find out when we can exchange on our sale so that we can propose some dates for exchange and completion in September. I'm really hoping for some positive movement this week. Have to say that our solicitor has been absolutely amazing all the way through. She replies to our emails within minutes, always answers her direct line and is really good at keeping things moving. Can't fault her at all.

It's such a roller coaster all of this! I'd gone from being in tears about the delay to accepting the extra cost and the October date, and now feeling hopeful we'll get in next month. It's hard to concentrate on anything else!

WorriedKirkels

slightlyfoxd said:

Happy Monday everyone! Hope everyone's weeks go well on all fronts.

At the end of last week I got gazumped - an old bidder came in weeks (and a lotta money) into the process and upped the price. I've offered to match it to keep going, but don't want to get into a bidding war. I'm FTB and we had signed nearly everything, whereas the other person is in a chain. I'm hoping that's enough to cinch it for me?

The only thing is that, if I lose this property, there's nowhere else on my radar and I'll have to start saving to replace all the cash I'll have lost so far. So it sets me back quite a bit. Fingers crossed - I should hear something from someone today 🙏

Good luck and hoping you get some positive news 🤞x

WorriedKirkels

Cookie211 said:

Solicitor emailed me and have apologised that’s her secretary put wrong address on there as she put the old house that fell through, the amount was done by sellers solicitor so I have been told to cross it out and put the price we agreed on, going to drop them to her later and hopefully she will email to say they are fine 🤞🤞

Glad it’s worked out! 😁 x

WorriedKirkels

clare19811 said:

clare19811 said:

We found out yesterday we're not going to make the stamp duty deadline as our seller's new build has been delayed. So that's an extra £2,500 which is a bit painful to swallow but we had budgeted for it just in case. We're now aiming to exchange early September with a completion date mid October. Their solicitor was asking for exchange with an open ended completion (at least I think that's what they meant), but we're not going to be tied in like with no end in sight, but it seems they're now happy to set a completion date around 14th October. 

I keep telling myself it will all work out and be worth it in the long run!

Our solicitor is back today after a week off and we had an email before 8am saying our sellers are happy to break the chain so that we can be in before the end of September. No idea what's caused the change of heart but I suspect they might have been told about a further delay with their new build.

I've emailed our solicitor back to find out when we can exchange on our sale so that we can propose some dates for exchange and completion in September. I'm really hoping for some positive movement this week. Have to say that our solicitor has been absolutely amazing all the way through. She replies to our emails within minutes, always answers her direct line and is really good at keeping things moving. Can't fault her at all.

It's such a roller coaster all of this! I'd gone from being in tears about the delay to accepting the extra cost and the October date, and now feeling hopeful we'll get in next month. It's hard to concentrate on anything else!

Fantastic news - so pleased for you 😁 x