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Timescales for house purchase
Xclare_2
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Hi all I am sure my question is like asking how long is a piece of thread but it's been a while since we brought a home and just wondering how long a no chain house sale can take .
We are going from rented to purchase and the sellers are going into rented .Our solicitor has had our mortgage offer ,requested local authority searches and had environmental searches back already,he has also had our sellers draft contracts (he got this thursday/friday just gone )and our survey has been done . We have raised a query from the survey regarding some damp ,the estate agents weren't great and advised the seller to get a quote to remedy the damp but can't do it for two weeks ,we went back to measure some bits this weekend whilst their we explained to the sellers we are happy to have any company quote that is local as we just need to make sure it's not going to be a massive expense as if so we would need to renegotiate prices .
So basically just trying to get a gauge of how long this could take . We are leaving military housing so have to go through a few processes before we hand the rental back . Thank you
We are going from rented to purchase and the sellers are going into rented .Our solicitor has had our mortgage offer ,requested local authority searches and had environmental searches back already,he has also had our sellers draft contracts (he got this thursday/friday just gone )and our survey has been done . We have raised a query from the survey regarding some damp ,the estate agents weren't great and advised the seller to get a quote to remedy the damp but can't do it for two weeks ,we went back to measure some bits this weekend whilst their we explained to the sellers we are happy to have any company quote that is local as we just need to make sure it's not going to be a massive expense as if so we would need to renegotiate prices .
So basically just trying to get a gauge of how long this could take . We are leaving military housing so have to go through a few processes before we hand the rental back . Thank you
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So it could take as little as 3 weeks (if you're going to wait 2 weeks to get an answer to your query), or it could take 6 weeks or more if you can't reach an agreement over the damp issue any time soon.0
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Or even longer if the vendors decide they don't actually want to move into rented so are going to look for somewhere to buy before they leave their current property so then a chain appears!0
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I would get my own quote to remedy the damp, I am not sure I would rely on a quote the seller obtained.0
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If the damp does not worry you, then don't bother about it. Deal with it later.
If it does worry you, then do your own investigations.
Employ a specialist yourself to find the cause of the damp and recommend, and cost, the solution.
Do not get a free [STRIKE]survey[/STRIKE] sales report from a damp proof company - they will simply recommend work to be done by their own company. Get an independant damp specialist who does not do remedial work so has no conflict of interest.
Above all, do not accept a report paid for/provided by the seller which will doubtless identify a simple and cheap solution. It is you, nt them, who will be living with the consequences for the next 5, 10, whatever years.0 -
We aren't to worried about the damp as we have been back with a damp metre and it is in one place with not much drainage out the front. Also the house was built some 300 years ago so we expected some problems.0
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If it was built 300 years ago a conventional damp course is probably the EXACT wrong way to go .Remember damp meters measure resistance not actual damp and should only be used on timbers, not wallpaper or plaster. An old house needs to be able to breathe, Lime render, lime plaster etc. A conventional damp curse will actually push damp into the walls. I am in the process of buying a 300 year old stone cottage and have done masses and masses of research into this (also forces). PM me if you fancy.“Isn't this enough? Just this world? Just this beautiful, complex
Wonderfully unfathomable, natural world” Tim Minchin0 -
We aren't to worried about the damp as we have been back with a damp metre and it is in one place with not much drainage out the front. Also the house was built some 300 years ago so we expected some problems.
In that case why
and what is the point of his thread?We have raised a query from the survey regarding some damp...... ,
Enjoy your new home!0 -
Ive had ones taken 8 weeks (which is pretty quick), and ive had one taken 6 months, both no chain, the 6 month one there was issue over land that the seller said was owned by them but turned out wasnt.
Keep chasing solicitors, if they say they are waiting on the others solicitors get on to the estate agent and ask them to chase the other party... What you can end up with is solicitor A waiting on X so not giving Y, solicitor B waiting on Y so not giving X... I swear conveyance solicitors live in the 1920's0 -
It can take 6 weeks or 25 weeks - who knows - it can be in the laps of the gods“Isn't this enough? Just this world? Just this beautiful, complex
Wonderfully unfathomable, natural world” Tim Minchin0
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