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  • Cuddlybearman
    Cuddlybearman Posts: 208 Forumite
    Eighth Anniversary 100 Posts Name Dropper Combo Breaker
    edited 4 March 2021 at 2:17PM
    At the same time (this is like a bad film) - official email from buyers EA that no exchange today means deal is off.

    For the 20th time? 
    yeh i know - sick of him now

    If i didnt love our new house so much i would love to tell him to do one
  • mathdotrandom
    mathdotrandom Posts: 33 Forumite
    10 Posts Name Dropper
    edited 4 March 2021 at 2:50PM
    Finally all done myself...after weeks of delays and constantly changing exchange and completion dates I finally put my foot down last Thursday and said if we didn't exchange the next day I'd pull out.
    To my own surprise it worked!!! Exchanged last Friday, completed today and about to pick up the keys now!! 
    Good luck to everyone out there, hang in there the end is near and it does all work out in the end.
    Initial property found & offer accepted: 24/09/2020
    Full application: 25/09/2020
    ...everything feel through due to a missing EWS1 form in late October...
    New property found and offer accepted: 9/11/2020
    Change of property request: 10/11/2020
    Mortgage offer received: 15/11/2020 
    Searches back: 06/12/2020
    Exchange: 26/02/2021
    Completion: 04/02/2021 - wohooo!
  • Just heard.....Seller has given authority to exchange.......................
  • UnderOffer
    UnderOffer Posts: 815 Forumite
    Fifth Anniversary 500 Posts Name Dropper
    Just heard.....Seller has given authority to exchange.......................
    Brilliant news. 
  • Anty21
    Anty21 Posts: 78 Forumite
    10 Posts Name Dropper
    Finally all done myself...after weeks of delays and constantly changing exchange and completion dates I finally put my foot down last Thursday and said if we didn't exchange the next day I'd pull out.
    To my own surprise it worked!!! Exchanged last Friday, completed today and about to pick up the keys now!! 
    Good luck to everyone out there, hang in there the end is near and it does all work out in the end.
    Just heard.....Seller has given authority to exchange.......................
    Congratulations 🥳 
  • Just heard.....Seller has given authority to exchange.......................
    Congrats, you're close now!
    Initial property found & offer accepted: 24/09/2020
    Full application: 25/09/2020
    ...everything feel through due to a missing EWS1 form in late October...
    New property found and offer accepted: 9/11/2020
    Change of property request: 10/11/2020
    Mortgage offer received: 15/11/2020 
    Searches back: 06/12/2020
    Exchange: 26/02/2021
    Completion: 04/02/2021 - wohooo!
  • Becksina
    Becksina Posts: 78 Forumite
    Fourth Anniversary 10 Posts Name Dropper Combo Breaker
    Still no exchange for us even though the solicitor assured us we will be completing next week. Apparently Help to Buy haven’t issued the authority to complete yet so we can’t sell ours until they have it, looking at their timescales they want 15 working days to do this so I hope the solicitor has already sent the required forms to them. 

    God why does everything take so long 
  • Seashell517
    Seashell517 Posts: 275 Forumite
    Third Anniversary 100 Posts Name Dropper
    At the same time (this is like a bad film) - official email from buyers EA that no exchange today means deal is off.

    I don't understand this logic. Why start the whole stressful process all over again when you're so close to the end? Unless they're planning on just staying where there are and not moving at all, I guess...
  • Gods sake - been trying to facilitate two solictors calling each other for an hour
    Each one just keeps saying they have left a message!!!!

  • houghton91
    houghton91 Posts: 104 Forumite
    10 Posts First Anniversary Name Dropper
    Can't see ours happening today - apparently buyer is now waiting for a closure statement from his Help to Buy ISA.....
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