The NEW waiting to exchange thread...

nekr0mantik

charlotteo1988 said:

Draft contracts were sent to my solicitor last Tuesday. She hasn’t sent anything to me yet like TA10 TA6. With the house we pulled out on she sent all that along with questions she was sending to the sellers solicitors. I’m wondering how long I should wait before asking when the questions will be sent?

Is it normal practice to see draft contract and queries? Last purchase I was doing before falling through last year my solicitor raised questions about draft contract but I never saw the contract when it was draft or queries. 

Nicbetty

My purchase was going so smoothly .
as a FTB everything done my end by Xmas eve . Been chasing solicitor forever update on my vendor .
pushing for exchange date …. Found out yesterday she has decided to buy a different property so starting from scratch .
it’s so frustrating 

babyblade41

I thought I might add my time line so far :...

20/11/21. House put on RM

20 viewers booked into the first week 

26/11/21 Offer accepted from a full cash buyer 

1/12/21 Offer accepted on our onward purchase , but ready to break a chain if necessary 

Normal conveyancing ensued with all of us using bricks & mortar solicitors which was a bonus .

Nothing much happened from our buyers before xmas unknown to us as such but the process of our purchase went full steam ahead .

Our buyers wanted to view again 15 th December , which we were happy to allow, then after this they wanted another viewing to see loft and drains .

This happened after xmas, but still no movement from them on searches or enquires

By 14th January we told buyers that we will put back on the market due to lack of progress . Buyers went ballistic and stated they will pull out .

House went back on the market & previous viewers wanting second viewings .

Original buyers solicitor sent over enquiries  & had applied for searches .

31/01/21 Our agent called to say our original buyers wanted to exchange this week as they are on holiday next week for 7 days, with completion 14th February.

Everything signed sealed & delivered  to our solicitor  to exchange .. now we wait 

charlotteo1988

nekr0mantik said:

charlotteo1988 said:

Draft contracts were sent to my solicitor last Tuesday. She hasn’t sent anything to me yet like TA10 TA6. With the house we pulled out on she sent all that along with questions she was sending to the sellers solicitors. I’m wondering how long I should wait before asking when the questions will be sent?

Is it normal practice to see draft contract and queries? Last purchase I was doing before falling through last year my solicitor raised questions about draft contract but I never saw the contract when it was draft or queries. 

The house I’m in now I got all the questions sent to me and different solicitor did this time and my mum brought a house in august and she got all enquiries sent to her too. So I think you should as you need to check the boundary is what you think it is etc and fixtures fittings and TA6. 

Hopefully I will get them end of this week. 

xx

amylou1107

Just spoken to estate agent - our solicitor received replies to queries from sellers solicitor yesterday.
Any ideas how long it normally takes them to review these before sending out to us with the contract? (If they are happy with replied obviously)

I'm going to send a little chase email tomorrow morning.
We are hoping to exchange before end of next week and timings are getting very tight!
Thanks! 

amylou1107

charlotteo1988 said:

nekr0mantik said:

charlotteo1988 said:

Draft contracts were sent to my solicitor last Tuesday. She hasn’t sent anything to me yet like TA10 TA6. With the house we pulled out on she sent all that along with questions she was sending to the sellers solicitors. I’m wondering how long I should wait before asking when the questions will be sent?

Is it normal practice to see draft contract and queries? Last purchase I was doing before falling through last year my solicitor raised questions about draft contract but I never saw the contract when it was draft or queries. 

The house I’m in now I got all the questions sent to me and different solicitor did this time and my mum brought a house in august and she got all enquiries sent to her too. So I think you should as you need to check the boundary is what you think it is etc and fixtures fittings and TA6. 

Hopefully I will get them end of this week. 

xx

We didnt see the queries/questions raised but did get sent out draft contact with fixtures/fittings etc pretty quickly and early on in the process

Emjaex

amylou1107 said:

Just spoken to estate agent - our solicitor received replies to queries from sellers solicitor yesterday.
Any ideas how long it normally takes them to review these before sending out to us with the contract? (If they are happy with replied obviously)

I'm going to send a little chase email tomorrow morning.
We are hoping to exchange before end of next week and timings are getting very tight!
Thanks! 

Ours took 3 days after enquiries were satisfied. 😊

amylou1107

Emjaex said:

amylou1107 said:

Just spoken to estate agent - our solicitor received replies to queries from sellers solicitor yesterday.
Any ideas how long it normally takes them to review these before sending out to us with the contract? (If they are happy with replied obviously)

I'm going to send a little chase email tomorrow morning.
We are hoping to exchange before end of next week and timings are getting very tight!
Thanks! 

Ours took 3 days after enquiries were satisfied. 😊

Great - thank you! 
I'll keep my fingers crossed that everything is okay with replies then! 

MzH_2021

I've spent the past week being bounced between our seller's Estate Agent and our solicitor. EA says all enquiries answered, solicitor says they still haven't had responses to all enquiries. Back and forth, both sides won't budge! Dragging out a simple chain free purchase that we all expected to be done by end of January. Very frustrating...

ccbrowning

Still waiting to exchange. ugh. Completion is on the 16th / in two weeks.