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The NEW waiting to exchange thread...
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Woo hoo - sounds really close 😁arrows123 said:Had all the conveyancing report paperwork through today, all looks fine, next up to start talking dates. Hang in there everyone. Feeling a bit more confident about completing before the end of September 🤞1 -
It seems to have worked!WorriedKirkels said:
That’s positive, I know my EA did similar and just helped alleviate my stress as I knew they were on it 😁SaucySecrets said:
They have just come to life! Chased the buyer and BCC'd us into a chasing email to them & their solicitor. No reply yet, but hopefully we'll get something...WorriedKirkels said:
Gosh that sounds like a nightmare 🤯 can you push your EA to be more proactive? I know we were worried as 5 weeks in we had heard nothing about our buyers mortgage and no valuation but it came together in the end. Hope it’s something similar 🤞SaucySecrets said:Good luck @House_owner and @nekr0mantik!
We've had an update from our solicitors... we've now got another new solicitor. He feels that our lender should be made aware of the partial loft conversion, so has sent that to them for urgent response. He's also not totally satisfied with one of our enquiry responses...
But he's not aware of any outstanding information for our buyer's solicitor and says the hold up is that they are having "mortgage issues", which our estate agent is denying but saying they can't contact him.
I'm starting to feel like this is destined to go wrong...
5 weeks sounds like such a long time too! Glad you got it sorted - any news on your exchange?
Nope, no news so I guess it’s waiting for tomorrow to come around now it’s so late in the day 😢
His solicitor has been in touch with some truly bizarre further enquiries, but it's progress, I suppose. No news on their mortgage.
I'm shattered, I feel like I've done 4 peoples work today. My fingers are very crossed that tomorrow is the day for you!Signature down for maintenance :rotfl:1 -
I’m just beyond fed up now, still no contract pack 😩
the vendor EA emailed them on Friday and said all parties need to complete by end of September so hopefully they will answer queries at lightening speed!Good luck to everyone this week!0 -
That’s fantastic - I suppose bizarre enquiries are better than none! 😂SaucySecrets said:
It seems to have worked!WorriedKirkels said:
That’s positive, I know my EA did similar and just helped alleviate my stress as I knew they were on it 😁SaucySecrets said:
They have just come to life! Chased the buyer and BCC'd us into a chasing email to them & their solicitor. No reply yet, but hopefully we'll get something...WorriedKirkels said:
Gosh that sounds like a nightmare 🤯 can you push your EA to be more proactive? I know we were worried as 5 weeks in we had heard nothing about our buyers mortgage and no valuation but it came together in the end. Hope it’s something similar 🤞SaucySecrets said:Good luck @House_owner and @nekr0mantik!
We've had an update from our solicitors... we've now got another new solicitor. He feels that our lender should be made aware of the partial loft conversion, so has sent that to them for urgent response. He's also not totally satisfied with one of our enquiry responses...
But he's not aware of any outstanding information for our buyer's solicitor and says the hold up is that they are having "mortgage issues", which our estate agent is denying but saying they can't contact him.
I'm starting to feel like this is destined to go wrong...
5 weeks sounds like such a long time too! Glad you got it sorted - any news on your exchange?
Nope, no news so I guess it’s waiting for tomorrow to come around now it’s so late in the day 😢
His solicitor has been in touch with some truly bizarre further enquiries, but it's progress, I suppose. No news on their mortgage.
I'm shattered, I feel like I've done 4 peoples work today. My fingers are very crossed that tomorrow is the day for you!
Thanks and I will have everything crossed too as I just can’t focus on anything else at the moment and it’s driving me insane 🙏 🤯😜0 -
Al searches back now and enquiries fully underway. Vendor's solicitor seems to be responding quickly at least, but the solicitors seem to be having a bit of a disagreement over what I consider to be minor details which is frustrating. All I'm hoping for is exchange by the end of the month. Solicitor still doesn't want to give any timescales. Also still in a no-man's-land with repairs and I haven't heard from the vendor via EA in a while. I think I will ask to speak to them directly (in a really relaxed and calm way to let them know how keen I am) if they allow it and I still don't have answers this week.0
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Well exchange did not happy today.
My solicitor did call me for 1st time to give an update. Apparently my buyer was only asked to pay deposit today (although I was told this had been done last week, but whatever) so they're hoping to exchange tomorrow and presumably still complete Friday.
Everything being so last minute is making me feel so uncomfortable.12/03/21 - House put up for sale
05/04/21 - Offer accepted for sale of house
10/04/21 - DIP approved
13/04/21 - Offer accepted on purchase of house
28/04/21 - Mortgage application made
30/04/21 - Mortgage offer received
15/06/21 - Searches ordered
28/06/21 - Searches received
22/07/21 - Enquiries raised
03/08/21 - Enquiries returned, 1 outstanding issue
19/08/21 - Enquiries on purchase satisfied. Ready to exchange
08/09/21 - Exchanged
10/09/21 - Due to complete0 -
Good news - we exchanged today.
However, everything went tits up with removals. Managed to find someone who can now do it, but obviously paying a premium. I just want to be in on Friday and never move house again!!!!5 -
Congratulations 🥳Elle83 said:Good news - we exchanged today.
However, everything went tits up with removals. Managed to find someone who can now do it, but obviously paying a premium. I just want to be in on Friday and never move house again!!!!1 -
We didn’t exchange either so I completely understand how you feel…stressed is probably an understatement! Hopefully tomorrow will be more positive and exchange will happen for you 🙏neydejean said:Well exchange did not happy today.
My solicitor did call me for 1st time to give an update. Apparently my buyer was only asked to pay deposit today (although I was told this had been done last week, but whatever) so they're hoping to exchange tomorrow and presumably still complete Friday.
Everything being so last minute is making me feel so uncomfortable.3 -
We also failed to exchange today. Hoping to try again tomorrow. Completion is set for the 20th.... good luck everyone!1
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