The NEW waiting to exchange thread...

BountyBlink

Josephgousto said: 

@Caz_Mnaz we have two related sales, one being my house where we currently live and the other being my partner´s property which is a buy-to-let. We are planning to go ahead with the sale of the buy-to-let still, and will unfortunately have to tell my buyer (a FTB) about the news.

Oh so sorry to hear this... this happened to us in the house we are currently in... I thought all was lost so had nothing to lose so I ended up writing a little card to the then vendors saying “sorry to hear you cannot proceed, we love your home and would like to still buy your home and if there is anything we can to do help please do call” blah blah 
popped it through their door and a couple of days later they text to say that they did still want to move but it wasn’t the right time and didn’t want to waste our time but maybe in a couple of months would go back on the market..
so we replied and said we would wait as we were in rented and 6 weeks later they were back in a better head space and asked if we still wanted to proceed. 10 weeks after that we got the keys to our now house (which we are now selling) 
so all I will say is, don’t give up on things yet and maybe drop a note round, because you don’t have anything to lose and much more to gain. Hope it all works out for you 

3or4magpies

Josephgousto said:

Just received the worst call ... our vendor decided to pull out "due to very private family reasons". Gutted isn´t even the word 

Oh my gosh, I'm so so sorry  you must be devastated

lozenlady

We had an unexpected but positive update today. Our sellers have suggested 1st April for completion. We are still waiting on some outstanding paperwork, but this seems like a step in the right direction and at least something to be working towards. I'm not sure what happened to the upper chain who wanted 4 weeks between exchange and completion though *shrugs*

Coopsy85

We've only gone and exchanged!! Completing on Monday  

stone03

Have been stalking this thread for months but finally posting! Am due to exchange and complete simultaneously tomorrow which I’m very nervous about- can somebody reassure me that this will (hopefully) go well?!  

3or4magpies

Coopsy85 said:

We've only gone and exchanged!! Completing on Monday  

Yippee, congrats! 
Still waiting here, maybe tomorrow/next day. Still have Monday 29th as completion day though.

3or4magpies

stone03 said:

Have been stalking this thread for months but finally posting! Am due to exchange and complete simultaneously tomorrow which I’m very nervous about- can somebody reassure me that this will (hopefully) go well?!  

Ooh super exciting, hope it goes smoothly!

3or4magpies

lozenlady said:

We had an unexpected but positive update today. Our sellers have suggested 1st April for completion. We are still waiting on some outstanding paperwork, but this seems like a step in the right direction and at least something to be working towards. I'm not sure what happened to the upper chain who wanted 4 weeks between exchange and completion though *shrugs*

Thats fab news, fingers crossed it goes well.

dungabeagle

Have had confirmation our homebuyers survey has taken place! 

It says we should get the report by the 30th but fingers crossed for sooner (I am impatient!) 

I feel like a lot of people kind of ... want to find issues with their property so they can use it to negotiate price, I am just sat hoping it comes back okay as I love this house and I think we paid a fair price for it! If something major is wrong with it we would consider negotiating but... I really don’t want to! 

3or4magpies

bigkenny1975 said:

I am pretty new to this whole house buying stuff. Our searches were ordered on 11th and should be back on Thursday if they follow the turnaround that was quoted. Hoping to not have too many queries.
I have a question though. Should my conveyancer have sent over the draft contract pack? I know they have had it since the 9th, I'm just not sure if I should chase for it or wait until the searches are done. I have not been massively impressed with them so far, they have never answered an email and the only info I have had has been when I call them - this has been off the back of requests they have sent me btw, not me harrassing them.

I'm not sure, I'd email and check with them. My solicitors are pretty slow too, I think they're flat out busy this and next week.