The nervous wait to exchange....

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As a chartered surveyor I fully endose that approach :D (although any chartered surveyor would revert any structural issues to a separate chartered engineer).

So after almost 2 and half weeks of radio silence from my solicitors (and leaving messages on their voice mail system) I final spoke to someone today. Seem my solicitors have transfered my conveyance to a new team without telling me. Now waiting for the new solicitor to make contact and let me know what the heck is going on (all searches complete and mortgage offer received 2 weeks ago but still waiting on completed PIF and FFE form from my purchase and STILL waiting for more information on the PROW.

Selling and buying property is very stressful.
 
Getting annoyed with mine too, not that its been long in to the proocess. Paper work all up to the solicitor, waiting to hear any feed back from the buyer. Just ahd an email this morning advising that the Monthly service charge is going up £25/m. Had to feed this off to the solicitor, hoping it neither puts the buyer off (or tries to make them ask for a discount) or starts the almost inevitable set of delays in bakc and forth between lawyers. The buyers mortgage company came round this morning to feed back about their application, hoping that goes fine. Gas and electrical engineer coming out to check the place over next Saturday too. I hate all the waiting and suspense in it. Just wish i didnt have terrible luck with things happening at the wrong time

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Closing date today at midday, offer is in. 14.5% above home report.

Hopefully find out late afternoon. It’s a stunning house, far too big for us but we’d never need to move again. Plus there’s definitely room for a second dog and chickens!
 
Ahleckz said:
Closing date today at midday, offer is in. 14.5% above home report.

Hopefully find out late afternoon. It’s a stunning house, far too big for us but we’d never need to move again. Plus there’s definitely room for a second dog and chickens!
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Thought everyone else should see this for a laugh. This is the gable wall that is 'visibly bowing above the level of next door's roof', that I'm having to pay for a structural engineer survey to look at.

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mid_gen said:
Thought everyone else should see this for a laugh. This is the gable wall that is 'visibly bowing above the level of next door's roof', that I'm having to pay for a structural engineer survey to look at.

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It's very slight and probably been like it for 50 years. I guess the surveyor is giving you everything, however minor.

If I were the seller, I'd be telling you to jog on and buy yourself a new build.
 
Bug One said:
It's very slight and probably been like it for 50 years. I guess the surveyor is giving you everything, however minor.

If I were the seller, I'd be telling you to jog on and buy yourself a new build.
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Probably 100+ years. He didn't do any 'normal for a property of this age' in the survey, it was just, 'the gable is bowing, it needs a structural engineer to report before proceeding'.

On the one hand, I'd rather he was diligent than negligent....but his report is next to useless as it's written as if should be in the state a new build is.

Will just keep the report from the engineer on file in case I come to sell it and an overzealous surveyor calls out the same thing.
 
Mason- said:
Mortgages atm are nuts. We're trying to get a 90% LTV, go to my broker and they say the only people doing it are HSBC but you have to go direct to them. So we did and we have to wait until 3rd August for a Zoom consultation :(. Survey is booked for 29th July and the secretary said the report wouldn't be done until the following Monday (which is 3rd of August), so we'll be waiting until at least then before I can stop stressing.

Plus side is Nationwide are bringing out their 90% LTV mortgages next Monday, so hopefully it will coax a lot of the lenders back out next week, and if the rates are comparable to HSBC then we'll probably jump at one of those.
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17 July applied
08 September approved.

Only took a month and a half -.-
Searches all back from the solicitor now too. Seems to be a clear road to exchange now! Fingers crossed.
 
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