The nervous wait to exchange....
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Caporegime
I have had my offer accepted on a housePlanned exchange date is the 2nd week of May!
New build I assume. Otherwise a 6 week turnaround is a bit of an ask! Solicitors take that long to pick their noses!
Caporegime
Nope. The house was sold but the buyers pulled out 1 hour before they were due to sign the contracts, all of the sellers paperwork is done, it’s just my end that’s starting now.
Happy days! Do you know why the previous seller pulled out? That is so last minute its ridiculous. How people can do that is beyond me.
Shouldn't be an issue tbh, other houses on the road have had lamp posts relocated in order to make the driveway accessible for 2 cars.
I'd check with the council first if this is in anyway determining whether you buy a particular house.
Just because it's been done elsewhere on the road doesn't automatically mean yours will be approved.
My local council used to do it themselves but now have an approved list of contractors who they allow to do it but under stricter rules.
The driveway and the dropped curb are easy enough as the council want the cars off the road, the lamp post might be difficult but it’s not a deal breaker, I can work around it.
Caporegime
The buyers were all set to move but found a house on the morning they were due to sign the contracts. They were booked for 11am but phoned up at 10am to say they had changed their mind, wouldn’t have been happy with that!
As in they found somewhere they wanted more on the morning they were due to sign contracts? Thats madness. I would have been furious. We really need to overhaul the whole house buying system in the UK. Its a mess when it comes to dropping thousands of pounds only for a sale to fall through. We could easily have lost probably £4-5K if ours had fallen through late in the process.
Yeah lol, who even keeps looking at houses that close to completion? It is madness and I bet it’s infuriating. This all happened only 3 weeks ago, when I went to view it last week, she had everything boxed up as she was supposed to be moving on the Friday. She was gutted as she almost missed out on the house she’s moving to, I’m glad they decided not to have it because I’ve got a great house at a good price.
Caporegime
Yeah lol, who even keeps looking at houses that close to completion? It is madness and I bet it’s infuriating. This all happened only 3 weeks ago, when I went to view it last week, she had everything boxed up as she was supposed to be moving on the Friday. She was gutted as she almost missed out on the house she’s moving to, I’m glad they decided not to have it because I’ve got a great house at a good price.
Yeah, we moved from a decent sized 3 bedroom flat but we had been packing generally for a few weeks before the move and we weren't moving with wardrobes as they were built in. Its not something you can just knock out in a few days.
Did you get a good discount on the price they were originally getting?
Associate
Exchanged yesterday, I am end of chain, just selling. Very happy given the current UK stability to be out. Money is moving Overseas. Was nervous though that someone would lose nerve with the current market pressures.
Didn’t get a huge amount of money off the property but I’ve saved a lot of money as the kitchen is fully furnished, only needing small appliances like a kettle etc.
Had my paperwork through from the solicitor yesterday, haven’t heard anything back from my mortgage application that went through on Monday.
Yay now having the inevitable last minute fun and games with FENSA certification as it turns out the builders that did some work on the house are/were an incompetent shower.
EDIT: I take that back turns out while the builder was disorganised it was another party that were incompetent.
EDIT: I take that back turns out while the builder was disorganised it was another party that were incompetent.
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Caporegime
I always used local branch.
But if course that could well get closed down the next day!
I’ve gone with my local branch.I always used local branch.
But if course that could well get closed down the next day!
One issue that may arise is that my bank name is different to the name on my passport and driving license, I’m hoping it’s not an issue but it could be.
Soldato
That’s a long wait for completion now come?