Is anyone moving now?

[AJB88]

Yeh it seems like it, its almost like let all parties talk to eachother and then feedback to the solicitors.

[surveyor]

cml24 said:

AJB88 said:

The property we have offered on and had it accepted, originally told us they would move into a parents house for now but have since told us the house they are buying is now empty as the owner of it has bought another property and moved into that.

8pm last night estate agent calls me, solicitors have been talking and the people above me aren't moving now till July, both people below me have said no straight away. luckily I have contact with the person above me so came straight out with it and asked them, they are advising not the case at all, they are starting to pack slowly and want to move asap.

so either somebody has got their wires crossed or somebody is lying. The start of the fun and games.

I hate the lies and mis-truths involved in the process! The more in the chain the harder.

Even just selling our house we couldn't get the same answer from solicitors and estate agent. If this was work, I'd setup a call with all parties, agree a few points and send out minutes. Done! Instead it's like a playground game of Chinese whispers!

This was exactly what I did (bar the minutes) after the solicitors were not understanding an issue. Developers sol would just say no issue, while our solicitor would accept that despite their clearly being an issue with a shared drainage system that was not being adopted and provisions for maintenance and sharing the cost of the maintenance being missing. For some reason the developers solicitor was reluctant to pick up instructions on this also from their client (perhaps as they had already missed this point on one of the 4 houses that had already completed), the developer and I eventually demanded that they speak on a conference call to resolve this and remaining issue with is on attendance.

[DanL]

cml24 said:

AJB88 said:

The property we have offered on and had it accepted, originally told us they would move into a parents house for now but have since told us the house they are buying is now empty as the owner of it has bought another property and moved into that.

8pm last night estate agent calls me, solicitors have been talking and the people above me aren't moving now till July, both people below me have said no straight away. luckily I have contact with the person above me so came straight out with it and asked them, they are advising not the case at all, they are starting to pack slowly and want to move asap.

so either somebody has got their wires crossed or somebody is lying. The start of the fun and games.

I hate the lies and mis-truths involved in the process! The more in the chain the harder.

Even just selling our house we couldn't get the same answer from solicitors and estate agent. If this was work, I'd setup a call with all parties, agree a few points and send out minutes. Done! Instead it's like a playground game of Chinese whispers!

Without wanting to be the prophet of doom, I’d prepare for the worst. Hopefully the estate agents have confused two clients and given you the wrong information.

However, the person who’s selling to you has a vested interest in keeping the chain intact - they may well not be entirely truthful with their intentions, hoping that by the time it reaches the crunch, everyone is so invested that they’ll all agree to hang on an extra couple of months...

[AJB88]

The person I am buying from is moving/downsizing further up the country to be local to a ill parent so has advised me they want to move ASAP, they originally said they would move in with parents if needs be so hopefully if their is a delay that option can be used, the 2 below me are ready to go.

[DanL]

AJB88 said:

The person I am buying from is moving/downsizing further up the country to be local to a ill parent so has advised me they want to move ASAP, they originally said they would move in with parents if needs be so hopefully if their is a delay that option can be used, the 2 below me are ready to go.

That’s pretty reassuring then (for you, less for them!) - sounds like they have a compelling reason and timescale...

[AJB88]

DanL said:

That’s pretty reassuring then (for you, less for them!) - sounds like they have a compelling reason and timescale...

Yeh hence why I feel bad pestering them. It sounds like a solicitor mix up. But hopefully we will get to bottom off it quickly.

[LetsTryAgain]

I’d like to move but it looks like 50% plus more to get something worth moving in to.
A year in to our five year fixed mortgage as well, so there’d be costs associated with that.
I just keep looking every now and again and keep improving the house in the meantime.

[Gad-Westy]

LetsTryAgain said:

I’d like to move but it looks like 50% plus more to get something worth moving in to.
A year in to our five year fixed mortgage as well, so there’d be costs associated with that.
I just keep looking every now and again and keep improving the house in the meantime.

The house on your profile looks fine to me.

[parakitaMol.]

Gad-Westy said:

LetsTryAgain said:

I’d like to move but it looks like 50% plus more to get something worth moving in to.
A year in to our five year fixed mortgage as well, so there’d be costs associated with that.
I just keep looking every now and again and keep improving the house in the meantime.

The house on your profile looks fine to me.

Crikey! thanks to your stalking I had a look - that's fabulous! why move?

[ajap1979]

LetsTryAgain said:

I’d like to move but it looks like 50% plus more to get something worth moving in to.
A year in to our five year fixed mortgage as well, so there’d be costs associated with that.
I just keep looking every now and again and keep improving the house in the meantime.

Why would there be costs? We're porting our existing 5 year fixed deal. The additional borrowing just runs parallel to it.

[LetsTryAgain]

Haha - sorry everyone.
That’s not my house.
That’s Wappenbury Hall, Sir William Lyons’ house.
If I lived there, I’d never leave!

My house is worth a lot less than national average and the issue is I’ll be adding £75k+ on to a mortgage to get somewhere worth moving to.
That’s a 3 bed semi, but with a 30ft long garage and in a nice area.
The next move would have to be detached, with a good bit of garden and either a bigger garage or plenty of space to build one.

On the point of not ending the mortgage and starting a new one; I didn’t know about that.
Will have to do some research.

[Biggus thingus]

Got mine on the market, been on for a few months now and wanting an offer to get moving

Had a viewing booked for last couple of days for 12.30 today

Opened door, sorry, not gonna waste your time, don't like the area, drive off!

Who books a viewing via an estate agent without making sure the property is in the area you want rather than waiting for satnav to drive you there to confirm you don't want to live there?

[LetsTryAgain]

Least they were honest! Haha. And upfront.

What I do is walk the dog around the area before even ringing the EA.

[parakitaMol.]

Biggus thingus said:

Got mine on the market, been on for a few months now and wanting an offer to get moving

Had a viewing booked for last couple of days for 12.30 today

Opened door, sorry, not gonna waste your time, don't like the area, drive off!

Who books a viewing via an estate agent without making sure the property is in the area you want rather than waiting for satnav to drive you there to confirm you don't want to live there?

That's frustrating, but honestly, I've poured over Satellite/Street View before visiting (an area I don't know) and then arrived and didn't like something about it. Sometimes it is hard to put your finger on an emotion you feel when you are there. At least they didn't pretend to be interested in the house and look round.

I had one cancelled last week because even though they said it was 'perfect' the wife decided it was 'right under the flight path' (it really isn't) and that's frustrating as well.

Good luck

[anonymous-user]

At least they were honest, I suppose and not just stringing you along. That feels worse.

It surprisingly common people have to move across the country at pretty short notice and they book a day of viewings 'within x miles of y'.

[AJB88]

Got to the bottom our our panic. the chain is;

House 1 being bought by first time buyer
House 2 (my house) being bought buy house 1
House 3 being bought by me
House 4 being bought by house 3, current owner is in house 5 already
House 5 already bought by house 4

The confusion has come from the seller of house number 4 already living in house 5, saying he is doing building works on house 5 which wont be ready till July. He's living in it already though.

[normalbloke]

Biggus thingus said:

Got mine on the market, been on for a few months now and wanting an offer to get moving

Had a viewing booked for last couple of days for 12.30 today

Opened door, sorry, not gonna waste your time, don't like the area, drive off!

Who books a viewing via an estate agent without making sure the property is in the area you want rather than waiting for satnav to drive you there to confirm you don't want to live there?

Ouch! I guess’ Yeah, me too’ would have been the only quick comeback to that..

[edc]

Biggus thingus said:

Got mine on the market, been on for a few months now and wanting an offer to get moving

Had a viewing booked for last couple of days for 12.30 today

Opened door, sorry, not gonna waste your time, don't like the area, drive off!

Who books a viewing via an estate agent without making sure the property is in the area you want rather than waiting for satnav to drive you there to confirm you don't want to live there?

The estate agent probably just slotted them in as they were seeing something else in the area or they actually wanted to see something else but it just sold etc. I saw a few houses I didn't ask to see but we're "recommended" to view by estate agents.

[75Black]

Biggus thingus said:

Got mine on the market, been on for a few months now and wanting an offer to get moving

Had a viewing booked for last couple of days for 12.30 today

Opened door, sorry, not gonna waste your time, don't like the area, drive off!

Who books a viewing via an estate agent without making sure the property is in the area you want rather than waiting for satnav to drive you there to confirm you don't want to live there?

That's what we done before we arranged any viewings, took a list of the houses we'd shortlisted on Rightmove, drove up to Aylesbury one Saturday and scoped out the areas, then on Monday arranged a viewing for the properties that did catch our eye and were in a desirable area.

[talksthetorque]

Similarly, we accepted a viewing booked through the agent's online portal, the day before it gets cancelled as "we didn't realise how remote it is"
a day later they message us telling us that they're going to do a drive-by to "view the remoteness and the house in context so not to worry if we see a car doing a drive by"

He must be aware of all the panic about peoples dogs getting nicked or something.

Dreading him turning up liking the house if this is what he's like for a viewing...