Is anyone moving now?

[lizardbrain]

IME Zoopla seems to have quick access to mortgage survey valuations, which are much less laggy but often conservative. Then are much slower to register the actual land registery price. When we last sold it took a few months for the price to be revised back up

[GT3Manthey]

Sheets Tabuer said:

Everything round here is dropping by 25k, wonder if it's the whole market or people don't want to live in villages anymore.

I think it's a small reversal of covid where people ran from larger populated areas.

I'm trying to sell a coastal flat. Had 2 viewings in a good few months now.

Market is definitely tougher than it was.

We are changing agent hoping that draws some new interest and the sun comes out .

[milfordkong]

2 weeks in to the process now, we sold in December, and it took us to a couple of weeks ago to find a house ... Absolutely cannot wait as we absolutely love the house we're buying but of course there's a mountain to climb first with the wonders of the British conveyancing system.

Our buyers are in rented so no chain beneath them, above us there are four others though so there's room for issues higher up.

Hoping we get to enjoy some summer in our new garden!

[okgo]

GT3Manthey said:

I think it's a small reversal of covid where people ran from larger populated areas.

I'm trying to sell a coastal flat. Had 2 viewings in a good few months now.

Market is definitely tougher than it was.

We are changing agent hoping that draws some new interest and the sun comes out .

When I hit rightmove and see a property I’ve seen before I don’t even register which agent it is with or was with. I just do not think it makes a difference these days. Though a fresh and different perspective on the pictures I do notice and that makes a difference, but existing agent could do that I guess.

Of course it’s most likely the price that’s the issue but nobody wants to admit to themselves

I’ve just had a gang of KFH round to look at the place as photos being done shortly. Quite exciting - i wanted to tell them that speed was more important than price given whether I get what we paid 4 years ago or whether I get the new price really is a drop in the ocean of the inward move but figured if they heard me say it they’d be taking the piss.

[GT3Manthey]

okgo said:

When I hit rightmove and see a property I’ve seen before I don’t even register which agent it is with or was with. I just do not think it makes a difference these days.

Of course it’s most likely the price that’s the issue but nobody wants to admit to themselves

You make a good point and I say the same myself.

We used an out of town agent so are now going local again .

I have also reduced the price but being a coastal flat I don't think the weather has been on our side .

I dunno , maybe just a fresh advert and some sunny weather might help.


We managed to sell our house last year without it even touching the market so got very lucky there. Think we're the wrong side of it this time.

[Fast Bug]

okgo said:

Means not a lot without knowing what you paid

Uplift of circa 20%. Like I say we've spent money on the house, but nowhere near what it would seem to have gone up by

[skinnyman]

NomadicTurbo said:

Contracts finally exchanged this afternoon.

Moving date confirmed for this Friday.

Offer was accepted January 29th.

Our searches took 8 weeks to come back

8 weeks! Christ our solicitor is hoping to have ours turned around in 3-4 weeks.

We did get an email from our sellers solicitors to say their contract pack was ready, and we 'needed' to exchange by 1st May, our solicitor hadn't even sent off for the searches at this point.

I keep trying to push everything along, making everyone aware that we're away for most of July, so if we're not completed by the end of June then it'll have to be August. I'm perfectly happy with August, I don't mind spending the majority of the summer in our current house, but our sellers are buying a new build, so the builders keep pushing them to exchange.

[LuckyThirteen]

Might be worth making it clear that you'd be happy exchanging end June to complete in August if it comes to it.

The builders standard MO is to target end of financial quarter (if large developer) and if smaller then just ASAP(!).

But, any uptick in market activity and the builder may be happy to relist the pad (especially if it's ready) and that could hurt you.

If, if, if it comes to it make it very clear to all parties you'd be happy to exchange, even if completion was more than a month later.

[okgo]

Two viewings already booked for our place. Quite pleased with that given it’s not on the web yet and photos just been done.

The state of London always amuses me - they’re both first time buyers…5 bed house and we will list at £1.2m. Nice place to be for them

[ooid]

NomadicTurbo said:

Our searches took 8 weeks to come back

Blimey, which LA is it? I might just go mad if that happens to me, been three weeks already. Some LA just coming back in less than 48 hours.

[NomadicTurbo]

ooid said:

Blimey, which LA is it? I might just go mad if that happens to me, been three weeks already. Some LA just coming back in less than 48 hours.

Cheshire East.

We were waiting so long for searches that our sellers who were initially chain free ended up finding a house, making an offer, had it accepted, had their searches back and were ready to go all in the time that we were still waiting for our searches to be returned.

[CT05 Nose Cone]

Well they finally got their act together and exchanged yesterday, so everything is set to move on Friday. Plus my package from America showed up and, most unbelievable of all, the retention form I had to send to the DVLA by post showed up as well.

Although it was a rather fraught start to the day, when we were asked to attend a work meeting with 10 minutes notice and the managers were sitting there looking solemn I nearly had a panic attack. But it turned out to be letting us know that someone who I've barely work with has left.

[NomadicTurbo]

Move competed yesterday. Sat in the garden enjoying the morning sun and countryside views now (a big change from the city centre terrace with no garden we've moved from)

There was some talk on here about moving vs paying removal companies, this was our experience.

We moved everything ourselves (with the help of some family).

We didn't move any appliances as we sold them with the house which made it alot easier. There is just two of us and a dog so no kids things to move.

We filled:
1x 18 seater LWB minibus (with seats removed)
1x VW Caddy van
1x BMW 5 series estate with the seats down
1x Audi A4 estate with the seats down
1x Volvo XC40 with the seats down
1x Audi A1 with the seats down

We packed the two vans on Thursday in preparation for moving yesterday.

Wasn't too difficult, more just time consuming. We did a bit the packing over a few weeks in the build up.

There were only two items that were difficult to move, one was one of the sofas which we struggled to get out of the living room doorway in the old house and a super king-size mattress which we struggled to get up the stairs in the new house.

Next time, we will most likely hire a removal company (if we decide to take all of our appliances too)

[oblio]

We are going with GB Liners who moved us into our current property 6 years ago. Came in 800 quid cheaper than a local indie in the end. They are delivering our boxes, tape etc a week on Monday. We are hopeful of a completion date at the end of the month.

[Skodapondy]

It's been a mad few weeks. Went on the market in the second week of April, the first viewer offered full asking (desperate to come back to the area) and a cash buyer. We had our offer accepted on a bungalow in the estate we wanted, but we got cold feet about it (by we I mean SWMBO) so we backed out. Then had an offer accepted on a house on the same estate accepted for a lot less than the bungalow that needs the same amount of updating. Now in conveyancing purgatory, why is that bit so bleeding slow?

[Skodapondy]

NomadicTurbo said:

Cheshire East.

We were waiting so long for searches that our sellers who were initially chain free ended up finding a house, making an offer, had it accepted, had their searches back and were ready to go all in the time that we were still waiting for our searches to be returned.

That's because Cheshire East think they are the superior authority in the county. They are not, sorry Halton and Warrington but Chester and Cheshire West hold that title.

[Tomm3]

We've been in our new place 2 weeks. Still feeling blessed because the process was so fking painful.
Normal conveyancing issues plus our buyer sold to an investment company after being messed about by another buyer. That buyer dropped 40k after initial agreement so they could take the lowball offer from the company.
This in turn was freaking me out expecting a last minute price drop to our buyer. So glad we did this move now, 70 now ffs, and not 5 yrs time.
1st time we've paid for a mover, so glad we did. Very happy now we're in, place is lovely. Got my shed up, hoping to clear garage so I can get my Z4 back inside, never been left out in 4 yrs.
Two people we know should have completed same time, one lost mortgage acceptance and the other had a price reduction come in with 2 weeks to go - 20k under the agreed price.

[GreatGranny]

Skodapondy said:

Now in conveyancing purgatory, why is that bit so bleeding slow?

That's one of life's great mysteries.

Friend in Sweden's son moved recently, everything took 4 weeks! (sold and bought)
She said that's normal.

[six port]

In a turn of events the place we liked and had an offer accepted on that was sold to someone else has been offered back to us as their buyer lost their buyer, great news for us but shows what a fragile crock o rubbish it all is!

Our place was on since Christmas but I think the schools in the area opened to enrol or something as everything in our vicinity for sale went stc the same week

[Danm1les]

We are back in the game. Having tried to move last year, selling ours straight away and then not finding anywhere to move too, was causing some stress.

This time around one of my partners customers mentioned they were moving and straight away we said we would buy their house. Got ours back on the market instantly with he same agent as before and a week later we had about 5 offers, most of them over. We have sold to a relative of a friend, for the 2nd highest offer, in the hope that there will be no funny business at the other end.

Fingers crossed all goes through ok. The house we are buying is the end of the chain, and the people buying ours have sold their flat to a first time buyer.

Shan't get too excited till we get through the process a bit more!