It then took 3 months to the day since my offer was accepted on the house I just bought which considering it was empty and there was no chain I think is ridiculous.
I certainly won't be moving again any time soon.
Its just a really ****** process. We have a first time buyer for ours and have had minimal issues but our seller has been utterly awful. We have been clear from the start that we would like to move quickly and they said they were happy with that. Since then they appear to have done nothing but stall and be a nightmare. There is literally us, first time buyers and our sellers who are moving into rented.
They didn't do anything for the first month post sale agreed. Then they made up some BS about their solicitor being away on holiday for 3 weeks. They then didn't do any paperwork until the day before the solicitors disappeared for nearly 3 weeks over Christmas. They have then been largely useless with any queries we have and their general attitude is "look at your survey" and "suck it up" when we query anything.
They are going into rented accommodation yet they are taking pretty much everything from the house including fitted curtain poles and wooden blinds (for bay windows which are segmented and all the wooden blind panels are different sizes to fit the different panels). They are taking a load of plants from the garden as well.
It all just feels like they are dragging their heels and generally being a bit ****** with us but hey ho. Hopefully it will all be over in the next few weeks.
If they were just honest with us it would have helped massively but I guess that wouldn't be good for them if we didn't like their honesty. If they just said "we don't want to move over christmas because of our young child" or something along those lines we would have said "thats fine, no worries" but their time wasting and lack of communication is frustrating.
Still, exited to have a house instead of a flat and to be moving closer to friends.