The NEW waiting to exchange thread...

esubbs

One step closer, maybe... 
EA just phoned to say that searches, mortgage and enquiries all satisfied on our buyer's sale so their solicitor are compiling their final report and looking at exchange this week. Everyone seems happy with completion on the 21st but that just needs agreeing through the solicitors. 
Now just to await the call from the solicitor and hope what they tell me is the same 🤞🤞

justcat01

esubbs said:

One step closer, maybe... 
EA just phoned to say that searches, mortgage and enquiries all satisfied on our buyer's sale so their solicitor are compiling their final report and looking at exchange this week. Everyone seems happy with completion on the 21st but that just needs agreeing through the solicitors. 
Now just to await the call from the solicitor and hope what they tell me is the same 🤞🤞

It's good to know that it really can be that quick! We're waiting for one final enquiry and our seller is waiting for a couple and then we can go!

charlotteo1988

stillwaiting1 said:

I have decided, after our offer getting accepted in June that I am putting my Christmas tree up soon. I am fed up of waiting for enquiries and conveyancers and exchange dates. I got told 2 weeks ago that it should all be done in a couple of weeks and still nothing.

I’m in this boat aswell. I want to move on the 17th Dec but not sure if it is possible, after selling our house in July I thought we’d be moved by now too. 

I’ve got a 3 and 1 year old and the 3 year old really understands this year and desperate for our tree to go up now. 

Don’t know if I’ve jinx it but we did empty some kitchen cupboards and drawers and pack that all away in our moving boxes and we took down the trampoline. 

Still no update from my solicitor which is really annoying and the estate agent who I’m purchasing through isn’t really a chaser and only chases the sellers solicitor and doesn’t get any update from mine. 

Just some sort of acknowledgment would be nice. I’m always quick to reply with responses and paperwork but it’s not reciprocated lol. 

Feel like another week with no real update on progress from anyone in the chain.

stillwaiting1

How do you all go about getting updates? Do you ask the EA or your conveyancer. I have asked my conveyancer a few times but its like she's annoyed with me even though I barely make contact unless it is important. I want to ask about the final enquiry but I last spoke to the solicitor on Friday. Would you contact again or get the EA to ask?

charlotteo1988

stillwaiting1 said:

How do you all go about getting updates? Do you ask the EA or your conveyancer. I have asked my conveyancer a few times but its like she's annoyed with me even though I barely make contact unless it is important. I want to ask about the final enquiry but I last spoke to the solicitor on Friday. Would you contact again or get the EA to ask?

Well the EA I sold with always asks me for updates and also emails my solicitor for updates so she usually has an update for me regarding my sale however the EA I purchased with has never asked my solicitor for a update so I have emailed my solicitor a few times asking for a update as to where we are and if all questions have been answered yet but I haven’t had any reply regarding it. 

You could just ask both I guess and hopefully get an answer. It is frustrating when you get no answer or a reply but it’s not a direct answer. 

Duck345

Hi all, really pleased to see the exchanges and completions since I last posted! 

Unfortunately we've had a turn of events where it turns out our vendor (who is elderly) got confused and hadn't actually completed on their onward purchase despite us being informed constantly by the EA that she had completed already. 

We are pretty disheartened as you can see from our timeline we've been waiting a while. 

Our vendors solicitor is slow, our vendor is slow but our vendor has surprised us by suggesting they go into rented (renting the house they are buying) and to complete in a couple of weeks time. Apparently they have organised this with their vendor who are fine with it (the house is empty). 

This was suggested last week but nothing has happened. Our solicitor chased the vendors solictior who said they hadn't been told this plan. So back I go to the estate agent asking them to chase the vendor up to ask them to relay their plan to their solicitor. 

We are now at the stage where we don't know if the vendor has informed her solicitor because they won't even acknowledge my solicitor. 

I'm just so disheartened, we thought all along it was a no chain purchase, the vendor even put in her property info form that it was no chain, we thought we would've completed by now and started work (its a fixer upper) 

Oh and our mortgage offer expires in a month and all this back and forth feels like we will need to mess around trying to get this extended. 

I know there's nothing we can do except keep chasing every few days but it feels good to vent! Anyone been in a similar situation? 

badger09

Duck345 said:

Hi all, really pleased to see the exchanges and completions since I last posted! 

Unfortunately we've had a turn of events where it turns out our vendor (who is elderly) got confused and hadn't actually completed on their onward purchase despite us being informed constantly by the EA that she had completed already. 

We are pretty disheartened as you can see from our timeline we've been waiting a while. 

Our vendors solicitor is slow, our vendor is slow but our vendor has surprised us by suggesting they go into rented (renting the house they are buying) and to complete in a couple of weeks time. Apparently they have organised this with their vendor who are fine with it (the house is empty). 

This was suggested last week but nothing has happened. Our solicitor chased the vendors solictior who said they hadn't been told this plan. So back I go to the estate agent asking them to chase the vendor up to ask them to relay their plan to their solicitor. 

We are now at the stage where we don't know if the vendor has informed her solicitor because they won't even acknowledge my solicitor. 

I'm just so disheartened, we thought all along it was a no chain purchase, the vendor even put in her property info form that it was no chain, we thought we would've completed by now and started work (its a fixer upper) 

Oh and our mortgage offer expires in a month and all this back and forth feels like we will need to mess around trying to get this extended. 

I know there's nothing we can do except keep chasing every few days but it feels good to vent! Anyone been in a similar situation? 

Don't want to be negative, but even if your vendor & their vendor have agreed to this renting proposal, I'm pretty sure the vendor's vendors' solicitor will advise against it. 

Duck345

badger09 said:

Duck345 said:

Hi all, really pleased to see the exchanges and completions since I last posted! 

Unfortunately we've had a turn of events where it turns out our vendor (who is elderly) got confused and hadn't actually completed on their onward purchase despite us being informed constantly by the EA that she had completed already. 

We are pretty disheartened as you can see from our timeline we've been waiting a while. 

Our vendors solicitor is slow, our vendor is slow but our vendor has surprised us by suggesting they go into rented (renting the house they are buying) and to complete in a couple of weeks time. Apparently they have organised this with their vendor who are fine with it (the house is empty). 

This was suggested last week but nothing has happened. Our solicitor chased the vendors solictior who said they hadn't been told this plan. So back I go to the estate agent asking them to chase the vendor up to ask them to relay their plan to their solicitor. 

We are now at the stage where we don't know if the vendor has informed her solicitor because they won't even acknowledge my solicitor. 

I'm just so disheartened, we thought all along it was a no chain purchase, the vendor even put in her property info form that it was no chain, we thought we would've completed by now and started work (its a fixer upper) 

Oh and our mortgage offer expires in a month and all this back and forth feels like we will need to mess around trying to get this extended. 

I know there's nothing we can do except keep chasing every few days but it feels good to vent! Anyone been in a similar situation? 

Don't want to be negative, but even if your vendor & their vendor have agreed to this renting proposal, I'm pretty sure the vendor's vendors' solicitor will advise against it. 

No not at all I'm grateful for any insight! I think I read something on another post about someone's seller suggesting this and it just fell to pieces.

I think that's why I'm just feeling so disheartened as we will probably just have to wait for her purchase to go through.

LizaVCook

We’re having a bit of a nightmare regarding a culverted watercourse in the garden of our purchase property. We’ve asked the vendors to carry out a cctv survey of it (manhole down to it is within their boundary) before we’ll continue with the purchase. Long story short, house on same road went up for auction yesterday and it turns out they have carried out illegal works on the section of culvert that runs within their boundary. We now want reassurance that it hasn’t affected the house that we are in process of buying! I just hope the vendors agree to commission the survey. We have struggles to get any information on the watercourse because the local authority and environment agency will only deal with the current occupiers. 

In other news, our new buyer’s survey on our property came back ok and they are now wanting to exchange.

LizaVCook

stillwaiting1 said:

How do you all go about getting updates? Do you ask the EA or your conveyancer. I have asked my conveyancer a few times but its like she's annoyed with me even though I barely make contact unless it is important. I want to ask about the final enquiry but I last spoke to the solicitor on Friday. Would you contact again or get the EA to ask?

I tend to email both my sol and EA with whatever update I have, then put a note on asking what else needs to be done next. My EA is really good at keeping me up to date and chasing everyone in the chain. I used to think my solicitor hated me because she was always very Curt in her emails, but have since realised that she’s just trying to save time and so doesn’t bother with pleasantries such as Dear… and kind regards. 😜