The NEW waiting to exchange thread...

[Deleted User]

We have a completion date on the sale of ours! A week away but no exchange as yet on the sale or purchase 

cheeky-peach

arrows123 said:

Congrats to everyone who’s managed to get over the line in the last few days. I’m still waiting for an exchange and completion date but it should be imminent. Who else is hoping to complete before the end of September? 

Luckily I’ll have an overlap with my flat so don’t have to physically move on completion day but as the time ticks on I’m getting more anxious! 

We are lined up to complete on the 20th x

sacvwgolf

Deposit has now been withdrawn from LISA and paid to our solicitors.. hopefully not long now

Bookgal88

After 4 days of chasing, my vendor's conveyancer is finally replying to our queries after sitting on the responses for the last month. I've calculated that to complete on the 30th, funds would need to be requested by next Thursday at the absolute latest. So panicked that I'm now going to miss out on the remaining stamp duty relief due to her incompetence. It just doesn't feel like enough time, but I'm trying to remain positive. 

TheScone

PlumLuck said:

TheScone said:

Since our survey came back with only a few potential worries (but honestly nothing I'm really worried about) we booked to go for a second viewing last night to measure up a few bits and honestly just to have a look at the house again haha! It was the first time we've seen the house since July, and I'm so glad we did. I still love it, it felt bigger than I even remembered and have all my paint swatches ready to go! We're just waiting on the last searches and 4 enquiries before we're ready to exchange, and since I don't want to exchange until October (having an op next week), I'm really hopeful that the next few weeks will fly by.

If you're stuck in limbo and not much is moving, I'd definitely recommend booking another viewing if you can - my excitement has reignited!

Our survey is due back next week and definitely considering another viewing now after reading this! We're nearly a month since our offer was accepted and we've heard absolutely nothing from our solicitor as they're still waiting on initial docs from the vendor's solicitor Our mortgage offer came through weeks ago!

I'd definitely recommend it! We had a few things on the survey that weren't worries but it was good to go and have a look at them, and also I feel like once the survey has been done it's a good excuse to go measure things up. That seems quite long to be waiting for your initial documents, it might be worth speaking to the EA to see if they can move anything along? You can ask about that second viewing at the same time!

TheScone

sacvwgolf said:

Deposit has now been withdrawn from LISA and paid to our solicitors.. hopefully not long now

How exciting, you sound right at the end!

Bookgal88 said:

After 4 days of chasing, my vendor's conveyancer is finally replying to our queries after sitting on the responses for the last month. I've calculated that to complete on the 30th, funds would need to be requested by next Thursday at the absolute latest. So panicked that I'm now going to miss out on the remaining stamp duty relief due to her incompetence. It just doesn't feel like enough time, but I'm trying to remain positive. 

How frustrating that they have held it up for so long only to have you rushing around now to complete in time to beat the deadline. If you only have those queries left though hopefully they will be straightforward for you!

Newdrake88

Bookgal88 said:

After 4 days of chasing, my vendor's conveyancer is finally replying to our queries after sitting on the responses for the last month. I've calculated that to complete on the 30th, funds would need to be requested by next Thursday at the absolute latest. So panicked that I'm now going to miss out on the remaining stamp duty relief due to her incompetence. It just doesn't feel like enough time, but I'm trying to remain positive. 

My mortgage advisor at my lender says that they only need 24 hours notice for funds so check with your lender 

HopeAndDriftWood

Our buyer has allegedly had the wrong type of valuation, and so it needs to happen again, and go through the underwriters again, before they can value here. 

I can't see how that can happen before the end of the stamp duty holiday. Our EA has apologised and said they'll update us when they know more, but I just can't see it not collapsing from here... I don't even know what to reply with.

Veromartos

So this is my timeline 
27/7 offer accepted 
2/8 full mortgage application 
20/8 ordered searches from seller
3/9 mortgage offer 
15/9 enquires came in from buyers and still waiting from replies from seller
....I asked my solicitor for an estimate exchange date and she said she cannot tell yet

I am hoping to move by October half term.
Am I being really optimistic?

scottie21

Veromartos said:

So this is my timeline 
27/7 offer accepted 
2/8 full mortgage application 
20/8 ordered searches from seller
3/9 mortgage offer 
15/9 enquires came in from buyers and still waiting from replies from seller
....I asked my solicitor for an estimate exchange date and she said she cannot tell yet

I am hoping to move by October half term.
Am I being really optimistic?

Our offer was accepted 28/7 at the same time as we accepted offer on sale. Mortgage approved 16/8, all enquiries are answered and we have negotiated price, we are looking to amend our mortgage application and hopefully complete by 30/9, but our solicitor has been exceptional in terms of efficiency. 

Good luck and hope you get there 🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼