The NEW waiting to exchange thread...

amylou1107

ccbrowning said:

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

How do you have a completion date before you have exchanged?
Curious to know as we are almost at exchange and havent discussed a completion date (although i'm told we are aiming for mid Feb...)

Thanks.

ccbrowning

amylou1107 said:

ccbrowning said:

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

How do you have a completion date before you have exchanged?
Curious to know as we are almost at exchange and havent discussed a completion date (although i'm told we are aiming for mid Feb...)

Thanks.

It's a sort chain and we agreed the completion date, I guess anything could happen until we exchange, though.

MickeyFTB

ccbrowning said:

amylou1107 said:

ccbrowning said:

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

How do you have a completion date before you have exchanged?
Curious to know as we are almost at exchange and havent discussed a completion date (although i'm told we are aiming for mid Feb...)

Thanks.

It's a sort chain and we agreed the completion date, I guess anything could happen until we exchange, though.

I hope it happens soon, I feel like I’ve had so many of these ‘we’ll complete on this day’ conversations and then the date passes so I’m only interested in a date when we actually exchange and legally agree to it now!

I just want to order furniture but imagine - I’d be sat here in my rental filled with sofas and beds 🤣

ccbrowning

MickeyFTB said:

ccbrowning said:

amylou1107 said:

ccbrowning said:

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

How do you have a completion date before you have exchanged?
Curious to know as we are almost at exchange and havent discussed a completion date (although i'm told we are aiming for mid Feb...)

Thanks.

It's a sort chain and we agreed the completion date, I guess anything could happen until we exchange, though.

I hope it happens soon, I feel like I’ve had so many of these ‘we’ll complete on this day’ conversations and then the date passes so I’m only interested in a date when we actually exchange and legally agree to it now!

I just want to order furniture but imagine - I’d be sat here in my rental filled with sofas and beds 🤣

Ugh, I hope not. It was very difficult to find removals that weren't booked like a month in advance here! However, I won't do some things until we exchange. Supposedly just been waiting on confirmation of release of funds from my mortgage lender, and it's been four working days now!

Laurelii

BalanceTransferDude said:

We're exchanging on Thursday (3rd) and completing the day after, if all goes to plan. Good luck @Croon979 and everyone else this week!

Have you exchanged ??

22FTB

Hey @ccbrowning I am in the exact same position by the sounds of it! 

Completion has been agreed for 14th feb, contracts signed and returned, just waiting for lender to confirm release of funds before we exchange. 

My solicitor requested this tuesday afternoon once completion date had been agreed, my lender is HSBC- who is yours?

ccbrowning

22FTB said:

Hey @ccbrowning I am in the exact same position by the sounds of it! 

Completion has been agreed for 14th feb, contracts signed and returned, just waiting for lender to confirm release of funds before we exchange. 

My solicitor requested this tuesday afternoon once completion date had been agreed, my lender is HSBC- who is yours?

Halifax here. I think the exact numbers are still being crunched as I had another query about something yesterday.

BalanceTransferDude

Laurelii said:

BalanceTransferDude said:

We're exchanging on Thursday (3rd) and completing the day after, if all goes to plan. Good luck @Croon979 and everyone else this week!

Have you exchanged ??

Not yet - ready to go but we're just waiting on the vendors solicitor getting back to his office as he's out for a meeting. I've been told that'll be shortly after 1pm so not long to go now!

Bank have released the mortgage money, so everything is in place.

Super excited, but slightly anxious until exchange has taken place.

greensalad

Finally did it, told our sales progressor that if we don't get some real progress or real dates in the timeline we'll be looking elsewhere. After 7 months with barely any progress over the past 2 months I'm just so frustrated. 

Every time I enquire it's just "a small issue", "some small issues that need to be fixed but should only take 2 days". I've heard that for the entire of January and I've got no assurances that we're getting anywhere so I need to put the pressure on.

We reaaalllly don't want to pull out but I told them we're "keeping an eye on the market" which is completely true. We need to see some solid assurance that something is going to happen or we may be tempted elsewhere.

I've given them a date of 3 weeks from now, which is when we need to serve notice on our property to not be liable for rent until the end of April. If we don't exchange in 3 weeks I guess we'll keep trying with this property but I won't feel bad about booking some viewings elsewhere. 

CBat

Finally exchanged contracts today! Been trying for a couple of weeks - so relieved it's finally done. 
Roll on completion in 2 weeks.