Is anyone moving now?

[MrVert]

Evoluzione said:

Completion next Monday, 14 months of house buying stress will come to an end

I think you have to win the ‘Rollercoaster of The Year’ award on this thread…congratulations, hope all goes well!

[Evoluzione]

MrVert said:

Evoluzione said:

Completion next Monday, 14 months of house buying stress will come to an end

I think you have to win the ‘Rollercoaster of The Year’ award on this thread…congratulations, hope all goes well!

Thank you I've been on this thread so long and everyone else has come and gone, I think you must be the only one left who remembers.
We're so glad to have (almost) dragged ourselves over the finish line before the end of the month (and commiserations to anyone who hasn't).
I can't see how anything can stop us now, but still dare not fully celebrate or even post up a picture of it until next week after what has happened before.

[surveyor]

Nickbrapp said:

Early in the process, paid for 24 hour searches as we are buying a new build and they would like exchange within 28 days

Now 3 weeks in, spoke to the Solicitor after having to charge them to be told “ yeah the searches are back but we haven’t looked due to the stamp duty deadline”

Wtf?! I know you have to prioritise a work load but surely every customer should be treated the same and if you can’t handle your work load don’t take on the bloody work

Your last paragraph kind of highlights the problem. How do you prioritise and treat fairly?

[Big E 118]

We've just moved, last Thursday. Sold this house in March https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/104751923?u... but struggled to find anywhere for a while. A lot coming to market that was overpriced, underwhelming and was going for overs!

In the end we decided on two villages and phoned the agent in each village daily, after a few weeks one called back and had just had an instruction and did we want to see the house. We were there in an hour and offered asking before we left! I thing we probably paid £50k-£75k over the real value but worth that to stop it going to market where it could have become a bidding war. The property is on a little road that is prime in the village we moved to.

After the usual painful conveyancing experience we completed last Monday and moved on the Thursday. What did surprise me was the amount of indemnities we had to undertake, between the 3 properties in the chain there were 9 indemnities. Seems another cash cow for someone.

Good luck to anyone trying still awaiting exchange/completions, it is very stressful....

[anonymous-user]

My girlfriend and me went to look at a house last month, put an offer in and had it accepted within ten minutes. Moving in next week!
Couldn't have gone smoother, I guess not having anything to sell has its perks

[GT3Manthey]

Big E 118 said:

We've just moved, last Thursday. Sold this house in March https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/104751923?u... but struggled to find anywhere for a while. A lot coming to market that was overpriced, underwhelming and was going for overs!

In the end we decided on two villages and phoned the agent in each village daily, after a few weeks one called back and had just had an instruction and did we want to see the house. We were there in an hour and offered asking before we left! I thing we probably paid £50k-£75k over the real value but worth that to stop it going to market where it could have become a bidding war. The property is on a little road that is prime in the village we moved to.

After the usual painful conveyancing experience we completed last Monday and moved on the Thursday. What did surprise me was the amount of indemnities we had to undertake, between the 3 properties in the chain there were 9 indemnities. Seems another cash cow for someone.

Good luck to anyone trying still awaiting exchange/completions, it is very stressful....

Stunning property no wonder it’s sold !

You are right about buyers paying overs. I’ve seen houses sell under the radar that suddenly appear on RM as ‘sold’

Wondering when/if all this will grind to a halt

[geeks]

We are seeing some stuff we had been keeping an eye on returning to the market at more realistic prices, I guess there has been a some over valuing/over offering and the banks not playing ball and also stuff that wont make it into the the stamp duty holiday.

Edited by geeks on Wednesday 23 June 12:41

[Flooble]

I have seen a few places remain "STC" for months on end - probably just overwhelmed conveyancers but "cliff edge" with stamp duty could be interesting.

Only seen a handful reappear but I am wondering what may happen next week!

[Sporky]

Just been told our sale has completed. Ace.

[CharliesTTS]

Just exchanged..completion on Monday!

[chopper602]

Well our initial (ex-) conveyancing company has cost us the stamp duty due to their inefficiency. After instruction, they failed to respond to phone calls and e-mail, only way I could get information was calling at the office (then found out what told in office was a fabrication). Lead solicitor resigns and refuses to hand over files to head office. Head office take injunction and gets files (around 700). Local office shuts down. Can't get response from head office (London) and that's when we bailed out, dis-instructed them and found another conveyancer. Also means the delay will impact on the stamp duty holiday and we'll miss out.

A disgruntled customer has set up a facebook group so still finding out information, as I still haven't officially heard that the office is closed!

[C70R]

kiethton said:

After selling earlier this week I've called up about 2 houses - both apparently under offer but not marked as such online.

Very little coming into the market meeting our criteria right now, tempted to take 6m in rented tbh

This is the vibe I'm getting from my vendor.

It's been 8wks since we had the offer accepted, and he's not found anywhere to move to yet (and is adamant about not renting).

We're fortunate that we don't have a chain causing grief (it's a second home), but I'm going to need to start kicking him along a little.

[C70R]

Big E 118 said:

In the end we decided on two villages and phoned the agent in each village daily, after a few weeks one called back and had just had an instruction and did we want to see the house. We were there in an hour and offered asking before we left! I thing we probably paid £50k-£75k over the real value but worth that to stop it going to market where it could have become a bidding war. The property is on a little road that is prime in the village we moved to.

This mirrors my experience.

Good property is flying off the shelves at the moment, and it pays to be persistent (to the point of annoying) with agents to get viewings.

[75Black]

Well, my deposit has gone through to my solicitor but still waiting for exchange of contracts. On the home straight now, can't wait to move.

[Welshbeef]

Big E 118 said:

We've just moved, last Thursday. Sold this house in March https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/104751923?u... but struggled to find anywhere for a while. A lot coming to market that was overpriced, underwhelming and was going for overs!

In the end we decided on two villages and phoned the agent in each village daily, after a few weeks one called back and had just had an instruction and did we want to see the house. We were there in an hour and offered asking before we left! I thing we probably paid £50k-£75k over the real value but worth that to stop it going to market where it could have become a bidding war. The property is on a little road that is prime in the village we moved to.

After the usual painful conveyancing experience we completed last Monday and moved on the Thursday. What did surprise me was the amount of indemnities we had to undertake, between the 3 properties in the chain there were 9 indemnities. Seems another cash cow for someone.

Good luck to anyone trying still awaiting exchange/completions, it is very stressful....

That is a lovely house superbly presented incl the grounds.

Id buy that in a heart beat if location worked.
How much land did it have / looks 0.5-0.75 of an acre

[T1547]

Big E 118 said:

We've just moved, last Thursday. Sold this house in March https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/104751923?u... but struggled to find anywhere for a while. A lot coming to market that was overpriced, underwhelming and was going for overs!

In the end we decided on two villages and phoned the agent in each village daily, after a few weeks one called back and had just had an instruction and did we want to see the house. We were there in an hour and offered asking before we left! I thing we probably paid £50k-£75k over the real value but worth that to stop it going to market where it could have become a bidding war. The property is on a little road that is prime in the village we moved to.

After the usual painful conveyancing experience we completed last Monday and moved on the Thursday. What did surprise me was the amount of indemnities we had to undertake, between the 3 properties in the chain there were 9 indemnities. Seems another cash cow for someone.

Good luck to anyone trying still awaiting exchange/completions, it is very stressful....

Lovely property, congratulations on the sale/onwards find. Did you stay local? We’ve just sold in East Grinstead and are buying in Crawley Down. We looked in Lingfield, Dormansland, Ashurstwood, Forest Row (our favourite) but in the end the right place came up in C.D.

[BigBen]

Flooble said:

I have seen a few places remain "STC" for months on end

I think a lot of that is estate agents having very little stock so not updating rightmove when STC turns to sold.

Edited by BigBen on Thursday 24th June 09:24

[Big E 118]

Welshbeef said:

That is a lovely house superbly presented incl the grounds.

Id buy that in a heart beat if location worked.
How much land did it have / looks 0.5-0.75 of an acre

Thanks, we had just over 2 acres which included a small wooded area. I won't miss the gardening....

[Big E 118]

T1547 said:

Lovely property, congratulations on the sale/onwards find. Did you stay local? We’ve just sold in East Grinstead and are buying in Crawley Down. We looked in Lingfield, Dormansland, Ashurstwood, Forest Row (our favourite) but in the end the right place came up in C.D.

We were looking at Dormans Park or Forest Row, ended up in Forest Row which was our preferred choice. Crawley Down is nice, have a few friends around there and the wife really liked a thatched property in Crawley Down/Rofant but Forest Row won over in the end.

[Maximus_Meridius101]

BigBen said:

I think a lot of that is estate agents having very little stock so not updating rightmove when STC turns to sold.

Edited by BigBen on Thursday 24th June 09:24

And chain stalling. They don’t want to take a property off of their books, if a chancer breaks the chain. They’d have to re market it ( and incur costs) if they did.