Timeframe from looking for a property to getting the keys?

Moved from rented into buying a house that was vacant, so basically no chain at all. It took about a month to sort all the paperwork.

Next move was a chain of 3, first time buyer getting ours, we were buying a house that was being sold by people buying a house that was formerly a rental property. Should have been pretty easy, took 4 months! Never underestimate how long things can take and how slow things can be. Also how incompetent estate agents and solicitors can be!

Short answer: How long is a piece of string!

Dave
 
I made my best and final offer on 23rd of October, and was lying on the empty living room floor of *my* house on the 9th of feb

this was with

  1. useless surveyors
  2. hopeless conveyancers
  3. the world's most useless mortgage broker
 
As a FTB it took 3 months, which I think is about as quick as you can get (unless buying with cash and no chain but thats quite rare).
 
When you talk about 'looking for a property' it depends what you mean, you should be looking online now to get a feel for the market and what sort of properties you want, but you may want to hold fire on actually viewing properties until you have your ducks lined up in terms of mortgage etc.
 
5 weeks to sell my last house, 10 weeks until new house was ready, I had to chase solicitor daily to gee the other parties along.
Guy at work was 6 months from agreeing to buy to moving in !
 
FTB. No onward chain. Spent two months viewing actively, two/three months from picking a place to getting the keys.
 
POB said:
If using H2B you are buying new. So it depends on when it is being built.
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This.

We looked in June, decided on the New Build development, got a memorandum of sale for the flat, kept bugging them about the next phase when the property type we wanted would be available, October we reserved, exchanged contracts in December, continued to watch the house be built over the months, and completed at the end of March.

Obviously if the house had already been fully built and we didn't have to sell a flat, the process would have been much quicker.
 
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