Help with house buy taking far too long!

babyblade41

lots of impatient people around !!
To give you some insight with my last purchase... My buyer had sold and was in an air bnb, me and my vendor  was in a home and house empty.
No mortgages on any property and no surveys done.  Took 3.5 months 

It is what it is and unless you go through with pulling out frightening them will do nothing for your cause 

Tiglet2

JessiceHope03 said:

We put an offer in to buy a property back in October and are still waiting for a date to exchange and move in. My solicitors are rubbish and update me with the bare minimum as I call them everyday; the most recent was the top of the chain are still waiting on enquiries. So I speak quite regularly with the estate agent as they have a lot of insight but have been promised each week it will be the following and then it doesn’t happen.
The chain is relatively small with us at the bottom as first time buyers, my vendor, the property they’re buying and then my vendors parents at the top (which is an empty property). So my vendor has a lot of exposure to what’s going on! 

We’re now in a situation where we need to sign for an extension or new rental property if it doesn’t happen next Friday which will be for a minimum of 6 months which we obviously cannot afford if we then complete a week later. 

Is there anymore I can do to push this forwards or do I just need to wait? My other concern is my mortgage offer runs out soon as it has taken so long! 

I’m tempted to start looking at other properties to scare them slightly? 

Thanks in advance for any advice!

OP you may have been waiting since October, but if enquiries are still ongoing with the top of the chain, it is likely that they have been part of the chain for a lot less time than you, so their transaction is not as far progressed as yours.  If that is the case, there is not much you can do to speed it up.  

You may think you have rubbish solicitors, but there is no connection between them and the top of the chain solicitor waiting for enquiries from A.N. Other Solicitor.  Calling your solicitor every day is borderline harrassment, no wonder they give you the bare minimum.  Would you harrass someone every day for another service, e.g. a Wedding Photographer?  Wedding photographs from the date of the wedding to the date a bride and groom get their album can be around 4 months.  Would you expect the photographer to update you every day with a progress report?

As previously advised, you should just stay in your rental until it suits you to give notice.  You will only have to give 1 month's notice, once you have exchanged on your property.  The landlord will not be able to evict you for at least a year from now.

If you are a FTB, you have the most flexibility.  Once you decide to move again in the future, you will be selling as well as buying and co-ordinating the two can be far more stressful.

teachfast

These analogies don't work. If the photos had been promised or expected after a month, and there was no contact from the photographer after this date, then yes, you would expect to call. 

Ridiculous. 

Tiglet2

teachfast said:

These analogies don't work. If the photos had been promised or expected after a month, and there was no contact from the photographer after this date, then yes, you would expect to call. 

Ridiculous. 

I doubt very much that photographers would have made any such promises.  Nor would they think it acceptable for you to call every day.  Most people work to an estimate.  In the case of solicitors, they do not promise or estimate.  The vast majority of promises and estimates are driven by the clients themselves or by EAs and are mostly a desire to be "in" by whatever date suits them, without any knowledge of the process or listening to advice given to them by the conveyancer as to how long the conveyancing will take.  It always takes longer than you think it will and there should be awareness that conveyancers do have other clients and other work and do have to work alongside third parties over which they have no control over timescales. 

What kind of job do you do, that is so perfect compared to conveyancing?  What gives you the right to bad-mouth conveyancing, when you're not a conveyancer and do not work at a law firm?  It's about time you backed up your allegations with facts and the background to whatever it is that caused the huge chip on your shoulder.

JessiceHope03

Thanks everyone for your advice! As I stated I am a first time buyer and am sure everyone knows how little you know when you head into the world of buying your first property! 

Although quite blunt I do appreciate the responses!

teachfast

Tiglet2 said:

teachfast said:

These analogies don't work. If the photos had been promised or expected after a month, and there was no contact from the photographer after this date, then yes, you would expect to call. 

Ridiculous. 

I doubt very much that photographers would have made any such promises.  Nor would they think it acceptable for you to call every day.  Most people work to an estimate.  In the case of solicitors, they do not promise or estimate.  The vast majority of promises and estimates are drive by the clients themselves or by EAs and are mostly a desire to be "in" by whatever date suits them, without any knowledge of the process or listening to advice given to them by the conveyancer as to how long the conveyancing will take.  It always takes longer than you think it will and there should be awareness that conveyancers do have other clients and other work and do have to work alongside third parties over which they have no control over timescales. 

What kind of job do you do, that is so perfect compared to conveyancing?  What gives you the right to bad-mouth conveyancing, when you're not a conveyancer and do not work at a law firm?  It's about time you backed up your allegations with facts and the background to whatever it is that caused the huge chip on your shoulder.

The best bit is that I only ever respond about conveyancers and conveyancing solicitors on threads where people are already having issues. The fact that I respond so much demonstrates the depth of the problem. They are a blight on the industry and anyone trying to say otherwise needs to give their head a wobble. 

teachfast

Also, according to you and others it's always the clients' problem and issue. You do realise you sound like IT techies who believe the issue always lies between the screen and the chair. Supercilious nonsense. 

TBG01

It would be much easier if clients' didn't have unrealistic and double standard expectations. 

Clients can take days or weeks to respond/return documents. When we do the same the same it's "terrible solicitor", "I had to chase everything!!".

Clients also don't realise just how long the process takes. Even the simplest of transactions can takes months to complete no matter what the estate agent or the other side says.

Tiglet2

teachfast said:

Tiglet2 said:

teachfast said:

These analogies don't work. If the photos had been promised or expected after a month, and there was no contact from the photographer after this date, then yes, you would expect to call. 

Ridiculous. 

I doubt very much that photographers would have made any such promises.  Nor would they think it acceptable for you to call every day.  Most people work to an estimate.  In the case of solicitors, they do not promise or estimate.  The vast majority of promises and estimates are drive by the clients themselves or by EAs and are mostly a desire to be "in" by whatever date suits them, without any knowledge of the process or listening to advice given to them by the conveyancer as to how long the conveyancing will take.  It always takes longer than you think it will and there should be awareness that conveyancers do have other clients and other work and do have to work alongside third parties over which they have no control over timescales. 

What kind of job do you do, that is so perfect compared to conveyancing?  What gives you the right to bad-mouth conveyancing, when you're not a conveyancer and do not work at a law firm?  It's about time you backed up your allegations with facts and the background to whatever it is that caused the huge chip on your shoulder.

The best bit is that I only ever respond about conveyancers and conveyancing solicitors on threads where people are already having issues. The fact that I respond so much demonstrates the depth of the problem. They are a blight on the industry and anyone trying to say otherwise needs to give their head a wobble. 

Evading answering the questions again.  

Your many responses repeating the same nonsense are neither backed up by facts, nor are they constructive or helpful to the people on these threads asking for advice.  Unlike you, some of us are trying to be helpful by unravelling the problem.  

teachfast

Tiglet2 said:

teachfast said:

Tiglet2 said:

teachfast said:

These analogies don't work. If the photos had been promised or expected after a month, and there was no contact from the photographer after this date, then yes, you would expect to call. 

Ridiculous. 

I doubt very much that photographers would have made any such promises.  Nor would they think it acceptable for you to call every day.  Most people work to an estimate.  In the case of solicitors, they do not promise or estimate.  The vast majority of promises and estimates are drive by the clients themselves or by EAs and are mostly a desire to be "in" by whatever date suits them, without any knowledge of the process or listening to advice given to them by the conveyancer as to how long the conveyancing will take.  It always takes longer than you think it will and there should be awareness that conveyancers do have other clients and other work and do have to work alongside third parties over which they have no control over timescales. 

What kind of job do you do, that is so perfect compared to conveyancing?  What gives you the right to bad-mouth conveyancing, when you're not a conveyancer and do not work at a law firm?  It's about time you backed up your allegations with facts and the background to whatever it is that caused the huge chip on your shoulder.

The best bit is that I only ever respond about conveyancers and conveyancing solicitors on threads where people are already having issues. The fact that I respond so much demonstrates the depth of the problem. They are a blight on the industry and anyone trying to say otherwise needs to give their head a wobble. 

Evading answering the questions again.  

Your many responses repeating the same nonsense are neither backed up by facts, nor are they constructive or helpful to the people on these threads asking for advice.  Unlike you, some of us are trying to be helpful by unravelling the problem.  

I don't consider continually denying the issue might be with the solicitor to be helpful. And I'm not sure who made you the forum police?