The NEW waiting to exchange thread...

charlotteo1988

@RS2OOO @Moneybear congratulations. 

It’s so funny how Friday seems so close to me as it’s like another week gone and not much progression but now it’s seems so far away for you now you are ready to move. I can’t wait for that feeling lol. 

Enjoy the move

Emjaex

Congratulations all that have exchanged and completed! First time poster here ! We are very close to the end now.. finally! We are FTB. Buying a vacant property, we had an update yesterday from our solicitors to say all enquiries are satisfied and that they will be producing a contract report shortly. So just a question how long did this take for you to receive? Thanks! 😊

amylou1107

Emailed our estate agent and sellers estate agent on Monday morning.
Not heard anything back yet.
Our solicitor is waiting on replies to enquires on our onward purchase.

Rang our estate agent who was busy - waiting for them to call back!

I know its not just us they have to deal with but i just wish everyone else chased things up a little.
Really want to move next month so we can be in before baby arrives in March!
If we dont move next month then i've said everyone will need to wait until April - cant risk going into labour on completion day!
Trying very hard to not stress about it!

How often does everyone check in with/ chase estate agents and solicitors? 

Laurelii

I am getting extremely impatient now, we have agreed on the completion date of 18/2, so has our sellers and apparently the sellers seller has agreed also as when I contacted our seller she said her solicitor emailed them to say 'looks like the 18th is agreed' but I haven't heard anything from our solicitors in regards to the exchange date. Is it worth asking the EA if they know anything or will they not have any information about the sellers seller? or should I just wait to hear from the solicitors ? 

greensalad

Well we are still attempting to exchange. First we thought early December, then late December, then early Jan, then last week, now next week...

Our vendors have had serious problems with their solicitors, it sounds like they've just been terrible and impossible to get doing anything. Ours have been fine throughout, not exceptional but generally expedient. Funnily enough our current solicitor used to work for our vendor's solicitor up until just last summer so I wonder what happened there lol, I looked her up and she only stayed there 6 months. I wonder if they were too slow and crap for her!

So the "errors" made on their report are still outstanding and though a few of them have been fixed up, there are still some outstanding. Sales progressor says should take 2 days to sort them out. So let's hope Monday it'll be done and we can exchange next week?!

My vendor has promised to reduce their initial 4 weeks between E&C down to 3 weeks which makes me feel slightly better. 

Loges1966

Laurelii said:

I am getting extremely impatient now, we have agreed on the completion date of 18/2, so has our sellers and apparently the sellers seller has agreed also as when I contacted our seller she said her solicitor emailed them to say 'looks like the 18th is agreed' but I haven't heard anything from our solicitors in regards to the exchange date. Is it worth asking the EA if they know anything or will they not have any information about the sellers seller? or should I just wait to hear from the solicitors ? 

Yes, you call your estate to chase it up. I mostly got more information from estate first than solicitor. 

UnderOffer

Laurelii said:

I am getting extremely impatient now, we have agreed on the completion date of 18/2, so has our sellers and apparently the sellers seller has agreed also as when I contacted our seller she said her solicitor emailed them to say 'looks like the 18th is agreed' but I haven't heard anything from our solicitors in regards to the exchange date. Is it worth asking the EA if they know anything or will they not have any information about the sellers seller? or should I just wait to hear from the solicitors ? 

You may find you don’t exchange until a week before, so 11 Feb? As long as everyone is working to same date of 18 Feb to complete then should go as planned. 

Dom25

Hello, everyone. I have followed this for long time and read every single comment and it is really helpful. 

I just want to share my timeline:
FTB Offered accepted on 03/10/21
mortgage application submit  on 13/10/21
Mortgage offer received on 25/10/21
Solicitor instructed on 27/10/21
Search ordered on 12/11/21
searched backed on 17/11/21
after long time delay on first property fell through back on May and did a lot of mistakes and COVID pandemic delay my plan since 2020. We finally got a call this morning to authority to exchange from my solicitor. We will complete 31/01/2022.
now just waiting for my solicitor to confirm exchange successfully.
feeling so nervous now. I am not sure solicitor will call me or email me to confirm exchange done ! 😖
good luck to everyone waiting and congratulations to ppl exchange and complete today ! 

Laurelii

Laurelii said:

I am getting extremely impatient now, we have agreed on the completion date of 18/2, so has our sellers and apparently the sellers seller has agreed also as when I contacted our seller she said her solicitor emailed them to say 'looks like the 18th is agreed' but I haven't heard anything from our solicitors in regards to the exchange date. Is it worth asking the EA if they know anything or will they not have any information about the sellers seller? or should I just wait to hear from the solicitors ? 

10 minutes after i wrote this the solicitors called to ask if we can exchange OMG!! money now been sent, im shaking !!! AHHHH  

Laurelii

26/01/2022 - WE EXCHANGED YAAAY !!