The nervous wait to exchange....

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Our sale and purchase seem to be going find, we have had the contracts back and signed those but not dated as the exchange/completion not sorted yet. Had our buyers surveyor around on Friday so hopefully nothing will come of that, so all looks to be going in the right direction.
 
Viewed an Ex-Mod house near us that we really like. When the area was developed, the MoD snapped up a big chunk of them for their families and so on.

Now they are selling them off.

Generous sized home, nice quiet area where we want to be.

I imagine they have been looked after during their life, it was in a good state when we viewed and is also empty and ready to go. Tempted
 
We've still not heard anything back from the buyers of our house re. plume deflector - our solicitor has chased them twice now - I can see this all falling through as the buyer seems in no hurry but we are as the house we're buying needs re-rendering before it gets too cold.

On another note, we've spotted a house we looked at back in March is back on the market again. I drive by it every week and it's said sold for ages. When we looked at it we spotted a worrying crack going diagonal from a window all the way down the wall so decided then 'nope' - makes you wonder if the new buyer's surveyor spotted something else wrong with it? They've now reduced it from £380k to £360k .
 
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Viewed an Ex-Mod house near us that we really like. When the area was developed, the MoD snapped up a big chunk of them for their families and so on.

Now they are selling them off.

Generous sized home, nice quiet area where we want to be.

I imagine they have been looked after during their life, it was in a good state when we viewed and is also empty and ready to go. Tempted
Offer accepted on this one after a bit of back and forth :D

End of chain too, and our buyers are first timers so could make for a quick process... Doubt it
 
Our buyers solicitors are trying to shift the blame to us for the delays in getting everything together to exchange in the coming weeks.

Great thing about email is that everything is time stamped so immediately provided time stamps of us replying within hours of all of our solicitors emails and them responding promptly too.

These are the same solicitors who didn’t start their searches until 4 weeks after the offer was accepted on our property!
 
FTB here, after having an offer accepted in mid June, we've finally exchanged contracts and have a fixed completion date for the 10th Oct :D does that mean we'll 100% get the keys this coming Friday?
 
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Offer accepted on this one after a bit of back and forth :D

End of chain too, and our buyers are first timers so could make for a quick process... Doubt it
Due to the absolute cluster **** of a system we have there is no such thing as a 'quick sale'

And garbage conveyors seem to be the norm

Rest of the world must look at us and laugh
 
Due to the absolute cluster **** of a system we have there is no such thing as a 'quick sale'

And garbage conveyors seem to be the norm

Rest of the world must look at us and laugh
Yeah definitely agree. It's our first time selling to buy, so I'm excited to see this first hand :D

Filled out our buying questionnaire yesterday but a question about a deposit had me confused.

10% deposit required on exchange? Well I can't provide that as it's all tied up in equity of the actual sale of ours.. but Google tells me not to worry, the exchange deposit effectively comes from the FTB at the start of the chain (our buyers) and works its way up as our deposit onwards too? Is that right?

Just a vague confusing few questions on this form, will contact them directly Monday as no answer over weekend
 
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Due to the absolute cluster **** of a system we have there is no such thing as a 'quick sale'

And garbage conveyors seem to be the norm

Rest of the world must look at us and laugh

I'm interested in your experience of how the rest of the world approaches this.
 
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