Is anyone moving now?
Discussion
CT05 Nose Cone said:
Phone call from the agent today, all is going as planned and they expect it to be completed within 3-4 weeks. For the first time it feels like this move is actually going to happen, although that feeling did give way to looking and all my possessions and wondering how I'm going to do this. However, since the house I'm buying is vacant, the seller will allow me to start moving boxes in between exchange and completion, which should make the moving day a lot less stressful. Although need to find out how that would work with insurance.
You’re using a professional removal company, surely? Just pack loose stuff into boxes and they do the shifting. LuckyThirteen said:
You need a key undertaking or, ideally a License to Occupy
Yes that's what they've agreed to. In terms of what I need to move it's a 2 seat sofa, fridge freezer and washing machine, then everything else should be boxes. Tried a few of the larger firms and they're already saying they're fully booked. So a van over the course of a day or two before seems like the better way to go illmonkey said:
LuckyThirteen said:
And if you're not then bear in mind you have to be out by 13:00
lol what? Thats not true. Never quite happens that way in reality but if you’re still in after the completion time, that’s a breach of contract.
LuckyThirteen said:
Never before has the issuance of a patronising 'lol' been made to look so stupid, so succinctly.
Way to pay yourself on the back pal 
Apart from that minor insignificant detail of the law, in practice it doesn’t work. I’ve sat in a car outside a new place waiting for them to leave, let alone get the keys way past 1, many times.
But yes, I concede I was wrong.
lolIt was well past 6 before I got the keys to the first house I bought, the estate agent had to stay open so we could finally get them. Annoying? Yes, but they were a couple with kids etc, I'm hardly going to start chasing them for money or whatever. They left is a nice card and bottle of bubbly. At bang on 1pm the people buying my last house started coming round, asking when we would be out etc. We actually had all our stuff out but I was going to go round; clean the place, label all the keys, put instructions for how to maintain pressure in the heating system etc....as it was we just closed the door and left, they can figure it out!
How are people finding the market at the moment?
Listed our house on Thursday, we’ve had 3 viewers over the weekend and have another 4 booked in for next weekend. Feels like that is a good return from being on the market for just under a week and things will probably start to slow down now.
Listed our house on Thursday, we’ve had 3 viewers over the weekend and have another 4 booked in for next weekend. Feels like that is a good return from being on the market for just under a week and things will probably start to slow down now.
Seventyseven7 said:
How are people finding the market at the moment?
Listed our house on Thursday, we’ve had 3 viewers over the weekend and have another 4 booked in for next weekend. Feels like that is a good return from being on the market for just under a week and things will probably start to slow down now.
Put mine up middle of Feb, had an offer within two weeks, sold STC now, so 4 weeks from EA instruction to sold STC. It's in a nice area and ideal FTB house though, so that really helps.Listed our house on Thursday, we’ve had 3 viewers over the weekend and have another 4 booked in for next weekend. Feels like that is a good return from being on the market for just under a week and things will probably start to slow down now.
EA told me (obviously taking everything they say with a pinch of salt) that FTB properties are selling like hot cakes, as current FTB house owners can't afford to move up the ladder the way the market is, so they get snapped up as soon as they go to market.
The house I'm buying is bigger and has been on the market for a lot longer, so I guess property type is a big factor in how quickly things are moving.
Having being SSTC for about 3-4 weeks our buyer pulled out on Tuesday.
Seems to be a bit of a trend for us, happened last year a week away from exchange and now its happened again. Luckily this time we hadn't found our ideal next home, but its a step backwards in the process none the less as it makes us non-proceedable for the time being.
Seems to be a bit of a trend for us, happened last year a week away from exchange and now its happened again. Luckily this time we hadn't found our ideal next home, but its a step backwards in the process none the less as it makes us non-proceedable for the time being.
Greshamst said:
2 viewings completed
5 viewings booked in for the rest of the week
1 2nd viewing booked in.
Haven’t had a chance to speak to the estate agent yet, but the numbers are positive so far on the first week.
Well things aren’t going that well. The flat I’m selling is leasehold and whilst people seem to like the flat, we’ve got 2 main sticking points that is causing no offers. 5 viewings booked in for the rest of the week
1 2nd viewing booked in.
Haven’t had a chance to speak to the estate agent yet, but the numbers are positive so far on the first week.
1) The ground rent went up this year and is now £400, mortgage lenders don’t like anything above £250.
2) The service charge is around £3.7k, again putting people off. I’m nearly at the end of paying an additional £913 per year to external reserve for roof repairs for 2023 and 2024 so it will come down. Not much I can do about that.
we have exchanged on our house, moving everything out next week. really happy the sale went without a bump it was a big worry!
the odd thing is the bit it thought would be the easy bit, the house we are buying.
so we had an agreed moving date of 19th april, we set this maybe a month ago, as we are moving 4 hours away we needed to book the movers in.
we've also booked an airbnb until that date.
had a phone call last week saying they now want to move in may which has really pissed us off, because it means 4 more weeks in airbnb's.
all along they said they would break the chain and now they basically don't want to.
is this normal and we are being a bit over sensitive or is that a dick move?
we had to move for a new job starting early april hence why we didn't delay our sale.
the odd thing is the bit it thought would be the easy bit, the house we are buying.
so we had an agreed moving date of 19th april, we set this maybe a month ago, as we are moving 4 hours away we needed to book the movers in.
we've also booked an airbnb until that date.
had a phone call last week saying they now want to move in may which has really pissed us off, because it means 4 more weeks in airbnb's.
all along they said they would break the chain and now they basically don't want to.
is this normal and we are being a bit over sensitive or is that a dick move?
we had to move for a new job starting early april hence why we didn't delay our sale.
Might sound like a harsh response, isn't meant to.
It is what it is.
With the benefit of hindsight you'd have had a written agreement from them with penalty clause. In a business transaction this is exactly what would have occured.
Yet, for the largest private purchase we make, there are basically no rules.
They're free to pull out of selling it to you! Let alone delay it. The worst part yet is that's if they're bringing their onward completion into the mix then if that gets delayed........
It is what it is.
With the benefit of hindsight you'd have had a written agreement from them with penalty clause. In a business transaction this is exactly what would have occured.
Yet, for the largest private purchase we make, there are basically no rules.
They're free to pull out of selling it to you! Let alone delay it. The worst part yet is that's if they're bringing their onward completion into the mix then if that gets delayed........
Visited the property we are purchasing yesterday to measure up, after some deliberation on our side and some helpful replies from this thread, we are glad we went.
For one thing, it definitely reassured our sellers that we are still keen, but also made us realise that our very nice dining room table just will not fit in the new house so we are going to have to sell it. Next step is to offer it to the people purchasing our house.
Annoyingly though, the sellers estate agent keeps chasing us for an update on the purchase, we have done everything our side and just awaiting the searches back. We are 6 weeks in since actioning the searches and heard nothing.
For one thing, it definitely reassured our sellers that we are still keen, but also made us realise that our very nice dining room table just will not fit in the new house so we are going to have to sell it. Next step is to offer it to the people purchasing our house.
Annoyingly though, the sellers estate agent keeps chasing us for an update on the purchase, we have done everything our side and just awaiting the searches back. We are 6 weeks in since actioning the searches and heard nothing.
Hustle_ said:
Hustle_ said:
Had offer accepted early July. Now finally have a complete chain. I’m at the bottom of the chain, FTB with mortgage. Four other parties in the chain, all paying cash, with the people at the top moving into new build. Eight months in and chain stress may finally begin 
Learned on Friday that build is complete 
As you can imagine I really want everyone to get a move on.
Edited by Hustle_ on Monday 29th April 12:42
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