The NEW waiting to exchange thread...

SimpleLife

Back in here 6 years after my FTB purchase!!!

Previous purchase 2016 £215k as a single parent, self employed FTB - it wasn't easy!!

Sale £400k currently going through simultaneously to my ongoing purchase...

Purchase £825k with mortgage of £685k. Again as a self employed sole purchaser (I'm now remarried but H not on mortgage). It was touch and go but I have a fab broker! 

Now waiting to exchange on sale and purchase.... eek. My ongoing is listed so a few extra enquiries to go through.

Fingers crossed.....!!

KeepOnKnitting

charlotteo1988 said:

I really do hope so!! Finger toes eyes ears all crossed lol

Fingers crossed for you, you've had such a roller coaster.

MINNIEMOMO

God buying a house is frustrating. Our vendor is getting antsy and saying she wants to complete in the next two weeks, buyers solicitors are waiting for two more searches but have everything else ready.. it just isn't going to happen and frustrated as I worry the vendor will pull out.

MickeyFTB

MINNIEMOMO said:

God buying a house is frustrating. Our vendor is getting antsy and saying she wants to complete in the next two weeks, buyers solicitors are waiting for two more searches but have everything else ready.. it just isn't going to happen and frustrated as I worry the vendor will pull out.

Have you told the vendor that as in exactly what they’re waiting on? I only ask as I’m stuck in a chain where there has just been issue after issue at the top and had we have been kept engaged instead of in the dark we wouldn’t be so annoyed. 

It’ll take lounger than 2 weeks for them to find another person to complete.

We feel like we’re stuck in a hard place, if we pull out we know the house will be snapped up and by that point everyone else will be ready to go and we’ll have wasted 7 months but I still hate feeling like everyone is taking the !!!!!!.

GeorgianaCavendish

I've been lurking here for ages but think we're now close enough that I can join the thread  

We're FTB and buying an empty property (seller's parents used to live there but it's now vacant) so we don't have a chain. 

We've had offer accepted, mortgage approved, searches and survey results back We're just waiting on the seller / solicitors to deal with the last couple of enquiries which our solicitors say should be within 3-4 weeks. I hope that we can get a date for exchange soon. Life seems determined to test us at the moment so the house purchase has slipped a couple of places down the list of stressful things to deal with, but the waiting around is killing me! 

Twins

Hello,

Another lurker coming out here.  I've been tentatively thinking about posting on this board as I'm so anxious about our situation which has ground to a snails pace.

We had an offer accepted on a property back in October,  we were assured the sellers wanted to move quite quickly, certainly by Jan but it didn't quite pan like that as they dropped out of 3 house offers for various reasons.  They've finally found a property but their sellers are still looking so we're in a painful chain which is not complete.    We're at the bottom of the chain as we will be renting out our house so all ready to go as soon as possible.

The wait is killing me and the stress about having to renew 2 mortgage offers is also looming.   Just want to receive some good news now and get this show on the road!

Has anybody got any good news about how things have gone when in a chain?  I only seem to read about negative experiences.

Nice to be amongst people who feel the pain, stress and anxiety.  Fingers crossed for us all and positive news ahead 

amyr

Hardly ever post on here but my head is a mess and I'm in need of somewhere to vent....

We are 21 months in to our sale / purchase. Sale of our place completed 10 months ago. New purchase going through, after such a longer wait. We are ready to exchange and suddenly can't reach the seller's solicitors. 

It's been three working days, which feels like a lifetime. It's a probate property and we do know, from our friends who live opposite, that this weekend the clearance company has visited. 

But why is the solicitor silent. WHY. They've been hugely responsive throughout and today it has rattled me completely.

This is totally the byproduct of a nightmarish two years. Just. Need. Certainty. 

badger09

amyr said:

Hardly ever post on here but my head is a mess and I'm in need of somewhere to vent....

We are 21 months in to our sale / purchase. Sale of our place completed 10 months ago. New purchase going through, after such a longer wait. We are ready to exchange and suddenly can't reach the seller's solicitors. 

It's been three working days, which feels like a lifetime. It's a probate property and we do know, from our friends who live opposite, that this weekend the clearance company has visited. 

But why is the solicitor silent. WHY. They've been hugely responsive throughout and today it has rattled me completely.

This is totally the byproduct of a nightmarish two years. Just. Need. Certainty. 

That does sound stressful and I'm sure I remember your name from ages ago.

It could be that the solicitor is on leave, or ill. The fact that house clearance have been in looks like a really good sign

Can you speak to EA and aske them to contact someone else in solicitors office, or the executors/vendors urgently?

charlotteo1988

Hello everyone. 

So….


WE HAVE EXCHANGED!!!!!!! Wahoooo!!!!! 

Completing tomorrow. A weight has defo been lifted but the weather is gross so loading the house into vans isn’t much fun. 

Thanks everyone who has supported us. On this rollercoaster of a journey. 

Also good luck to anyone who is waiting. Just keeping plodding on you will get there eventually.  

8 months and we are finally there. 

Thanks everyone again. 

babyblade41

well done and congratulations ..enjoy your new home