Currently buying/selling a house? How is it going? READ MOD NOTE POST #1

What i meant was that there is not as much movement. There is some. If your house is already on the market, might as well leave it on the market though.

Starting to lose heart at this point that we'll ever get a house. Bidding is absolutely insane on properties.

How many places have you viewed? We moved into our new home a few weeks ago and it took 57 viewings over the course of six months to get there - it's awful every time you get knocked back but you'll get there if you persist. Best of luck!

Hi everyone, sorry to jump in on this post but it's right where we're at at the minute. So basically we've AIP but obviously have to sell our own house too in order to buy a new one (chain).

We found a house we really liked and put an offer down. Offer was the highest but estate agent got back and basically said because we haven't sold our own house that our offer won't be taken seriously and the other buyer is ready to go. We are not in a position to move in with family and don't want to waste money renting so how do we go about trying to sell and buy at the same time. We've requested deeds from the bank but really feeling deflated tonight as estate agent we had lined up to sell our house advised us to get an offer accepted and then put our house on the market. This obviously isn't the right way to go about it as I've seen on other searches that the house should be put on the market first. My concern is that if we went sale agreed in short space of time and still haven't found another house where do we stand? Would love to hear feedback/advice from anyone. Thanks a mill.

It is a sellers market out there at the moment. So if you go sale agreed on your house, be transparent to the buyer that you are also looking for a house to buy and see if they are willing to wait. More likely they will because once they agreed the price with you, then the price is sealed for them and they don’t have to worry about rising prices (for a while). In the meantime keep bidding on every property that you like until you strike the right one…. In our case we aggressively bid on the property we like and won the bidding. We are probably overpaying for it but we need to manage the spread between the price of the house we are selling and the price of the house we are buying. The longer we don’t have a house to buy, the higher the spread gets due to rising prices.

Week 2 of living with the mammy and daddy... which has been great!!! My parents took my wife and I plus 2 BIG dogs in without so much as a seconds hesitation. Being fed like kings! LOL. I was busy replacing faulty appliances, light bulbs, cleaning, etc... to show our gratitude this past weekend. Plus a few bob their way of course!!!

Sale closed (on our previous home) Friday 29th OCT. (We put a big chunk of that sale towards the new gaff, hence the "gap"). Got the green light from bank yesterday re: legals... so just the house and life insurance to activate now... and pushing to be closing this coming Friday. Though it'll be tight...

Started looking in January. Outbid on a few places... sale agreed back in July. Listed ours immediately. It sold fast... but the last FOUR months have been a roller-coaster... Just knowing there's an end in sight after almost a YEAR - is relieving.

If it pushes on into next week, so be it!

My folks will be first on the Christmas dinner invite list!!! 😜

I have changed from PTSB to another bank as they are so slow. When my solicitor heard we had AIP with PTSB, she recommended we still apply to another bank to avoid delays.

Had a bit of a nightmare today. Meant to get the keys tomorrow but looking unlikely. Last minute document missing.

Really bit of a **** show from everyone involved. Broker listed off what was needed the previous week and got it all in. Had a call with him and all seemed good. Sent for review then. At same time solicitor had got in touch with the bank and also listed what was outstanding and it reflected what the broker said pretty much, minus some internal stuff for the broker. Also sent the remaining funds this morning to the solicitor.

Around half two get a message from the broker, the deed of assignment had not be submitted. So mad panic drive to the solicitors to get it signed at 5 this evening, but sure it’s going to be posted in morning now probably. Dunno how long that and the review will take and whether any other issues crop up either. Broker blaming me and solicitor, solicitor blaming broker. Bit of a slobberknocker.

The bloody notice of assignment and deed of assignment look pretty much the same. Anyway hopefully resolved before the weekend. Have the bb and everything going there from Thursday onwards.

They keep telling us it's been printed and is in the post but nothing is turning up. This has been going on for weeks. We're at the end of our tether now and there's nothing we can do about it and it's all because the mortgage adviser making a balls of the address and putting wrong word in the house name (the house is also rural BTW). Valuation included in pack had correct address

we had to have that done on an apartment too, doesn't take very long at all. Just make sure the wording is correct and the bank's proper full name is noted as we'd a bit of back and forth before that was right in our case.

Once the mortgage is drawn down, it should only be a matter of days.

Got the keys today nearly a year after going sale agreed on a new build. Lots of delays for various reasons but once drawdown agreed during week, that was it. Very speedy resolution. Still have to organise wooden floors, furniture and electrics but such a relief. It's really wonderful to be over the finishing line.

Depends on the foreman and site clerk I would say - I’ve heard of some asking you to sign a waiver to say they’re not liable for snags created etc. you may aswell ask - you have nothing to lose!

having said that - you’re at risk of having to foot the bill to revert the house to the showhouse condition if you didn’t drawdown for whatever reason

I Would talk to your landlord, tell him you're buying a house but don't have a date yet. I'm sure he'll have no problem finding new tenants so may not hold you to a long notice.

Gone sale agreed and issue identified with copper cylinder and probably needs to be replaced as soon as.

Would anyone consider this a deal breaker? First time buyer so no idea!

Thanks in advance