The NEW waiting to exchange thread...

youth_leader

I spoke to my vendor on Sunday 10 January and she said she was going to email her solicitor that evening with her proposed exchange/completion date of Thursday 11 March. I haven't heard anything from my solicitor yet, I know he is very dynamic and hasn't heard yet.  So frustrating, I would like to book my removals company.

FTB_Help

Peppermint90 said:

Hello everybody,

I need some advice. I want to complete asap, but vendors side are taking long with replying to enquiries. What should I do to push things to pick up pace? Who do I push and how? 

Hi peppermint

Have you been in touch with the vendor throughout this process? I.e did you exchange email/ number if so maybe drop them an email to let them know your solicitor is waiting on a few bits from their solicitor and if they could help chase. I've kept in touch with my vendor via email just to give them updates / piece of mind on mortgage approval/ surveys etc and found that its been a godsend when we're waiting on draft contract/ enquiries/ other docs to drop them an email which then triggers them to chase their solicitors.

If not try calling the EA to see if they could get in contact with the vendors side to chase

Peppermint90

FTB_Help said:

Peppermint90 said:

Hello everybody,

I need some advice. I want to complete asap, but vendors side are taking long with replying to enquiries. What should I do to push things to pick up pace? Who do I push and how? 

Hi peppermint

Have you been in touch with the vendor throughout this process? I.e did you exchange email/ number if so maybe drop them an email to let them know your solicitor is waiting on a few bits from their solicitor and if they could help chase. I've kept in touch with my vendor via email just to give them updates / piece of mind on mortgage approval/ surveys etc and found that its been a godsend when we're waiting on draft contract/ enquiries/ other docs to drop them an email which then triggers them to chase their solicitors.

If not try calling the EA to see if they could get in contact with the vendors side to chase

Thank you @FTB_@FTB_Help
I managed to get through to EA. Who has only now decided to tell me that vendors are a divorcing couple. I feel quite upset/confused now because I've read how divorcing house sales can be long and messy....duno what to expect now. 

FTB_Help

Peppermint90 said:

FTB_Help said:

Peppermint90 said:

Hello everybody,

I need some advice. I want to complete asap, but vendors side are taking long with replying to enquiries. What should I do to push things to pick up pace? Who do I push and how? 

Hi peppermint

Have you been in touch with the vendor throughout this process? I.e did you exchange email/ number if so maybe drop them an email to let them know your solicitor is waiting on a few bits from their solicitor and if they could help chase. I've kept in touch with my vendor via email just to give them updates / piece of mind on mortgage approval/ surveys etc and found that its been a godsend when we're waiting on draft contract/ enquiries/ other docs to drop them an email which then triggers them to chase their solicitors.

If not try calling the EA to see if they could get in contact with the vendors side to chase

Thank you @FTB_@FTB_Help
I managed to get through to EA. Who has only now decided to tell me that vendors are a divorcing couple. I feel quite upset/confused now because I've read how divorcing house sales can be long and messy....duno what to expect now. 

Try not get too bummed down by this, it might be that they're both in a rush to just sell off and move on. If you were hoping to make stamp duty, I'd start saving for stamp duty just in case it drags on to past March.

Keep in touch with the EA to get them to chase enquiries and do all you can to get everything sorted yourside quickly.

Olive3

Cuddlybearman said:

Olive3 said:

Hi all, I'd like to join you all please. I've been reading your tales of joy, hope and woe. I'm rooting for you all! Our timeline is 
08/12 Made offer on our (hopefully) new house, accepted subject to us selling - sellers are moving into new build
10/12 Put our house on the market - Decision in Principle obtained
15/12 Accepted offer on our house (we were really lucky!) - purchaser has sold, and has accepted an offer from a FTB. 
16/12 Solicitors appointed
24/12 Mortgage application completed
04/01 All documents (fixtures & fittings, TR1, ID etc) sent to solicitors, questions from buyers solicitors answered
11/01 - confirmation mortgage offer agreed subject to valuation, valuation booked
18/01 - valuation carried out
Survey on the house we are buying is booked for 22/01. 
I'm waiting for an update from the mortgage company now that the valuation has happened. The buyers of our house have requested all searches. I'm not sure where we are on the searches for our new house - but we are waiting until we get the survey back in case its a shocker, as the house is almost 100 years old - so we have gone for a full structural survey. 
Also hoping we will make the stamp duty deadline, and things seem to be going well so far. All parties are aiming for mid/end March. But I'm not overly optimistic! 
I keep thinking we have missed something. We haven't spoken to a removal company yet, but that feels too soon. What do you all think? 
Olive x

No harm in getting some removal quotes in. Try and go for three as they do seem to vary wildly. I have quotes between £1400 and £2700 for all doing the same thing! Give you an idea of what notice the need when you do get nearer - seems to be about 3 weeks notice for booking for most.

As for the time - its too difficult to predict and you'll have to just go with the flow. Some people getting done quick some people taking ages. For me between me and my vendor we could have transacted in probably 4 weeks - but my buyer has been trying to get a mortgage offer since 26th of October...........and still doesn't have one yet.

I think if you get everything in by the stamp duty deadline based on when you started the process you would have to count yourself very lucky - but its possible if everyone in the chain just has a "normal" circumstance.

Thanks Cuddlybearman, I'll try a few removal companies. What a  difference in prices! I'm sorry to hear about your buyer, I hope they get an offer soon. I wonder if some mortgage companies are just so busy as the stamp duty deadline has caused more people to move. Fingers crossed for you. 

tigerlily74

badger09 said:

tigerlily74 said:

Well it seems my solicitor has done nothing for the past week on our purchase. I think she thinks there is no point as Purplebricks are so hopeless, she may as well work in cases that have a hope of completing. Meanwhile our buyers who were ‘ready to exchange’ so we said, great, we will move in with family, suddenly have a two week delay with only vague reasons given, so there is no point chasing her anyway. I give up.

Don't give up!
Can you get your EA to do some digging? They want their commission, so its in their interest to keep things on track.

Thanks Badger! The EA for the house we are selling is doing some digging but not getting anywhere, they are saying confidently it will be two weeks but giving be nothing tangible to back it up. Of course for my onward purchase, the EA is hopeless, their business model is that they don’t do post sales support and get their commission regardless!

Peppermint90

So my vendors are a divorcing/divorced couple...on the memorandum of sale and land registry, they are both Mr and Mrs, and both share a surname. EA though tells me they divorced 12 years ago. How comes they both still share a surname then and she still goes by 'Mrs'? Is this normal? Am I missing something? 
Only he lives in the property they are selling. The title deeds are in her name, but there's a notice of home rights in his name...EA assures me they both do want to sell.
When we went to view the property both were in the house with a few months old baby. A baby's swing chair is permanently there, as I always see it through the window when driving past. But apparently they divorced 12 years ago....I'm totally confused...

Peppermint90

Also...what does 'working on the matrimonial home rights notice on title deeds' mean - how long is this likely to take!? 

babiesmummy

Peppermint90 said:

So my vendors are a divorcing/divorced couple...on the memorandum of sale and land registry, they are both Mr and Mrs, and both share a surname. EA though tells me they divorced 12 years ago. How comes they both still share a surname then and she still goes by 'Mrs'? Is this normal? Am I missing something? 
Only he lives in the property they are selling. The title deeds are in her name, but there's a notice of home rights in his name...EA assures me they both do want to sell.
When we went to view the property both were in the house with a few months old baby. A baby's swing chair is permanently there, as I always see it through the window when driving past. But apparently they divorced 12 years ago....I'm totally confused...

I would say quite normal. My mum & Dad divorced 30yrs ago & my mum still goes by her married name using Mrs

Peppermint90

@Land_Registry
Hi Land_Registry, please could you shed some light on, currently, how long on average it will take for land registry to remove home rights notice - assuming it's a straight forward application?