The nervous wait to exchange....

.Griff. · 15 May 2017 at 16:06

Still not exchanged but the buyer's conveyancer has asked my solicitor for a completion statement. Guess that's a good sign.

fastwunz · 15 May 2017 at 18:37

.Griff. said:
Still not exchanged but the buyer's conveyancer has asked my solicitor for a completion statement. Guess that's a good sign.

Yes that's a good sign although no guarantee!

.Griff. · 16 May 2017 at 16:10

Was assured yesterday we'd exchange today. 4pm, still heard nothing

.Griff. · 16 May 2017 at 16:43

Exchanged!!! Complete on Friday.

SiD the Turtle · 17 May 2017 at 08:26

Congrats! Bet that's a relief.

.Griff. · 17 May 2017 at 09:25

Definitely. We started this process the first week in January. Seems to have dragged on forever.

Van booked, packing in earnest tomorrow

thezappa · 17 May 2017 at 09:41

Congratulations. I live in our first house and although we have no intention of moving I'm not looking forward to being in a chain.

.Griff. · 17 May 2017 at 10:06

It's my first experience of being in a chain too. My current/outgoing property was my first so I was a first time buyer buying a new build so it was relatively straight forward.

This time even with a relatively small chain it's been stressful to say the least.

Scottland · 17 May 2017 at 10:45

.Griff. said:
It's my first experience of being in a chain too. My current/outgoing property was my first so I was a first time buyer buying a new build so it was relatively straight forward.

This time even with a relatively small chain it's been stressful to say the least.

We're in the same position at the moment, and having already had our first buyer pull out - every time the phone rings I'm dreading it's the agent telling us it's happened again. Fingers crossed we're hoping to exchange in the next 8 weeks or so.

.Griff. · 17 May 2017 at 10:49

Fingers crossed for you.

Our original "buyer" messed us around for six weeks. In the end we had to put the property back on the market and start again.

{SAS}TB · 17 May 2017 at 18:40

OMG after weeks of "almost there" and a stressful few weeks (and today which was horrific) found out at 3.00 this afternoon we have exchanged, removal men coming to pack up tomorrow then complete / move on Friday!!

.Griff. · 17 May 2017 at 20:19

Congrats!

thezappa · 17 May 2017 at 20:23

Well done. Must be a great feeling to put that behind you.

{SAS}TB · 17 May 2017 at 20:27

.Griff. said:
Congrats!

Thank you

thezappa said:
Well done. Must be a great feeling to put that behind you.

It is, but there is now a dawning realisation of what we need to do to move over the next two days and the work we need to do in the new place

LOAM · 18 May 2017 at 22:03

What you need is a fantastic architects practice to do an amazing extension for you....

{SAS}TB · 19 May 2017 at 05:49

If only I knew one

That's another thread

Move day today ....

tsinc80697 · 19 May 2017 at 10:40

I'm glad the house we bought this year (our first) will hopefully be our last as the stress from being in a chain looks like it'd drive me mad!

Congrats at getting it all finalised and moving in

.Griff. · 20 May 2017 at 10:27

Moved yesterday. Hired a van and did it ourselves. Feeling it today!

rexehuk · 20 May 2017 at 11:13

.Griff. said:
Moved yesterday. Hired a van and did it ourselves. Feeling it today!

I got a man with van to do most of mine... and we decided to take a load of stuff manually as we filled up his truck.

After a week of evenings after work driving back/forth to new house, I think next time I'll go for a full removal! By the end of it I was on the edge of madness.

Phantom Shadow · 23 May 2017 at 18:23

So my purchase is still ongoing since the start of December, I expect it's going to fall through either this week or next so back to looking for something else to buy. Been having a look on zoopla/rightmove etc over the past month but not really seen much of interest tbh.

Seller has moved out and can't afford to keep paying the mortgage, so unless we can exchange contracts by the end of May the estate agent has suggested the vendor is going to pull out and rent the place instead. Considering my solicitor sent 25 enquiries 3 months ago and so far we've only had replies to 4 of them I highly doubt we'd exchange by next week. They still have 8 of the outstanding enquiries to resolve before sending it all back to my solicitor, and they're also waiting on the Land Registry to register the parking space that wasn't registered in their name.

Considering how slow the other side has been, I've been half expecting this tbh. Oh well, back to house hunting.