Timeline of buying a house

Chelseals123

Hi all

We are in the process of buying and selling a house. We are the only link in the chain. FTB is buying our property and vendor on our house purchase is moving in with family due to health reasons. So - memorandum of sale was issued last week. I had all forms back to my solicitors, formally instructed them by last Wednesday (a week ago) I've had no progress at all since then. Both seller and purchasers solicitors haven't been in contact with my solicitor at all and when speaking to estate agents the answer is "there's forms to fill out" I appreciate it's only a week into getting the sale memorandum but there's yet to be a valuation booked for the mortgage (ours already sorted and offer waiting) which I feel is a bit slow!?

Does someone have a rough timeline of when I can expect to have an update of some kind? . Draft contracts are waiting for our sale but without any contact we can't issue them obviously. We were initially working towards end april/early May but I feel this isn't do able any more (everyone was aware of this)

Thanks

TamsinC

Have a look at the Waiting to Excahnge thread - it can be as quick as 6 weeks (sold our house in that time - no chain FTB and we are in job supplied quarters ourselves so didn't need to complete on our purchase at the same time) or as long as 9 months (friend of mine is still waiting to exchange)

Chelseals123

Thankyou i have looked at that but was hoping for some specific advice regarding what's expected to be achieved in what time and if it's unreasonable to think a bit of progress should have been made in a week?