The NEW waiting to exchange thread...

Thanks FloppyDisk.....I hope so! Hope yours comes good soon!

Congrats black cat

RXT156 wrote: »

Hellooooo all! I’ve been quiet for a while as nothing was happening but after several calls to solicitors today I found out that my solicitor has gone on holiday for a week...!! But it turns out that the man who is looking after the files for the week has actually returned one of my phone calls (this has never happened before, I’ve always had to chase them) and has proved himself more in a two minute phone call than my solicitor has done in 10 weeks!
Offer accepted 10th October. All searches/paperwork etc begins. Phones today for an update and the helpful stand-in solicitor has told me that I am awaiting one piece paperwork that was missing. Once that is back we can set completion dates :j yipeee!

I'd be telling them you dont want to deal with the other solicitor and keep in touch with that one ...!

Firsttimebuyers wrote: »

We're in a similar position, can only give notice on 1st of the month so we need to exchange before 1st Feb, then leave a couple of weeks before completion so that we're only overlapping by 2 weeks or so. Still waiting to here back if the Vendors Solicitors are happy with this timescale.

I think we are pretty much there now. The other side have agreed to cover our rent so we can complete in January.

We should hear back today about contracts having been exchanged :T :T

Regards

Mailman

I was going to do that too...but just threw the question at the vendors because the worst they could say was no (as we would have moved anyways).

All worked out in the end which is great

So vexing when things keep dragging on...

Good to see some folks have exchanged though :j Hooray! :j

No news here. Our timeline looks something like this (edited highlights...)

Early July - house on market, accepted offer in a week
Mid July - buyers sold their house
9th August - offer accepted on house we're buying
17th Aug - full mortgage application in
31st Aug - mortgage amount for £20k less than asked for
(lots of messing about and arguing)
11th Sept - new house valued at £0 because land area is bigger than building society limits
21st Sept - building society FINALLY agreed original mortgage amount after I paid off student loan and had a pay rise
(lots of messing about with solicitors changing title deeds to get mortgaged amount under the right acreage and arrange to buy the rest for cash - in this period everything else was done, searches back, everyone else ready)
6th Nov - our full buildings survey done
9th Nov - finally received mortgage offer :j
16th Nov - signed all docs with solicitor including mortgage deeds :j
17th Nov - bottom of the chain (our buyers' buyer) pulled out :mad:
30th Nov - our buyers found new buyer for their house - all back on :j
21st Dec - new person's survey done on our buyers' house

And then everything stopped for Christmas... so now we're all just twiddling our thumbs waiting for the new person to catch up. In the meantime, the gas tank has run out on the place we're buying (which is empty) and the sellers have drained the heating system to stop the pipes freezing. It's going to be bloody freezing by the time we finally get there!

Hoping to exchange in January, move early Feb. But then we were hoping to move before Christmas so who knows??

Yawn