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Why do we do this to ourselves?
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Thanks, not sure my heart can take much more ... lolHRH_MUngo said:That sounds dreadful, I have moved three times and bought/sold a couple of times other than that. We have never once been in a chain. Couldn't stand it.
Good luck, hope you get to move soon xI am a Protection Adviser. You should note that this site doesn't check my status as a Protection Adviser, so you need to take my word for it. This signature is here as I follow MSE's Mortgage Adviser Code of Conduct. Any posts on here are for information and discussion purposes only and shouldn't be seen as financial advice. Please do not send PMs asking for one-to-one-advice, or representation.0 -
I have today exchanged on an empty property, no chain, and it has taken 51 weeks.
A friend read an article yesterday that said the average time to exchange is 36 weeks, or 256 days to be precise!
I too am not putting myself through this again!!
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This is probably where the hold up is - there is a leasehold property in your chain and a landlord/freeholder/management company had to respond to the LPE1 - no doubt there will be enquiries raised in this respect.fullofcold said:True, us and our buyer are definitely ready to go on our forward purchases. Apparently my buyers buyer just has one search to return, probably some enquiries off the back of that and an LPE1 form to go and we should all be ready unless we are asked for anything else.
Thankfully the electrical report came back clear.
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Ugh, awful isn't it?dingling68 said:I have today exchanged on an empty property, no chain, and it has taken 51 weeks.
A friend read an article yesterday that said the average time to exchange is 36 weeks, or 256 days to be precise!
I too am not putting myself through this again!!I am a Protection Adviser. You should note that this site doesn't check my status as a Protection Adviser, so you need to take my word for it. This signature is here as I follow MSE's Mortgage Adviser Code of Conduct. Any posts on here are for information and discussion purposes only and shouldn't be seen as financial advice. Please do not send PMs asking for one-to-one-advice, or representation.0 -
I know. I know I should be far more patient than I am being, I just hate this process so much.Tiglet2 said:
This is probably where the hold up is - there is a leasehold property in your chain and a landlord/freeholder/management company had to respond to the LPE1 - no doubt there will be enquiries raised in this respect.fullofcold said:True, us and our buyer are definitely ready to go on our forward purchases. Apparently my buyers buyer just has one search to return, probably some enquiries off the back of that and an LPE1 form to go and we should all be ready unless we are asked for anything else.
Thankfully the electrical report came back clear.I am a Protection Adviser. You should note that this site doesn't check my status as a Protection Adviser, so you need to take my word for it. This signature is here as I follow MSE's Mortgage Adviser Code of Conduct. Any posts on here are for information and discussion purposes only and shouldn't be seen as financial advice. Please do not send PMs asking for one-to-one-advice, or representation.0 -
Sold my small 3 bed detached house in 2013. Took 10 weeks. Bought my current small 4 bed detached house in 2016. From viewing it to moving in took 8 weeks. Current house now on the market. People who have viewed so far seem to be in their early 30s and have sold to FTBs. For me, it has been so important to select a firm of solicitors local to where I live so that I can personally deliver documents to them or to be in the office to sign paperwork etc. I'd rather be an architect of my own destiny than totally rely on others when selling and buying property.0
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