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JCR982 said:I haven’t asked our solicitor & will do on Monday but I was just wondering how many weeks the sale will take / I know it’s a total estimate but we have our fingers crossed that we are in our new place by Christmas!
It also depends on the upward chain. How much of a chain is there? (Or is there no chain?)
Is everyone in the chain ready to go, and/or do they all want to move by Christmas?
You can only exchange contracts when the slowest person in the chain is ready to.0 -
Depends on chain as much as anything.
I've bought a number of properties cash, fastest was 3 weeks as no chain at all, longest was about 14 weeks due to issues up the chain.0
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