Buying and selling a property

Feck that. No excuse. Out the door after a month. They have been paid. Dont accept rent in lieu, just get out, "take youself, your bag, your sandwiches and T-square and get out of my classroom" as my former tech drawing teacher used to say.

NNow when I was buying, I really wanted to buy and I asked how long should convayence be? I once got told it could take up to 4 months by an estate agent. I smelt a rat. It should only take less than a week if all parties are equally motivated. Reality maybe a month. I do get they are in a chain but finding it difficult. These people are taking the mick.

That is so poor. If I was you, I would pull out unless the house is unique.

Conveyancing takes months. The quickest I have ever heard of was someone going sale agreed to getting keys in 4 weeks. Extremely unusual

It depends on the how fast solicitor and estate agents co-operate. My house only took 4 weeks. The first house I was seriously interested in, the sellers had nowhere solidly planned. It had also been on the market months before I took interest. That should have been a hint of problems.

I would say 3 months is a typical timeframe but unfortunately these are not normal times, going sale agreed on a house with the vendor yet to find their own house really is a balls, it's a situation I will find myself in too and I am dreading it.

A lot to be said for buying a new house avoiding all this but not everyone wants a new house.

Best of luck OP and I hope the sale all goes through ok.

I’m currently selling in a chain,and buying.

i would not be waiting around any longer on the vendor to find a place. If they eventually find a place it could be In a chain and could cause months of further delays and even fall through and the while process starts again.

Some vendors aren’t in any hurry to find a place and just take their time, they may even not be fully committed to moving. . Ideally you need to find a vendor that is highly motivated to sell or even better a vacant property.

It’s been 12 weeks since my house went sale agreed. I had my deeds, NPPR cert, services in charge cert, LPT paid, all sorted within 2 weeks of sale agreed. Our delays have been precontract enquiries between the solicitors. As far as I can see they do one correspondence a week between themselves via email, dragging it out beyond belief.

Ultimately neither party wants to feel like they’ve been hard done by or sold themselves short. If they are genuine buyers, your best option is to let them know that selling at their offer doesn’t work for you but you would consider selling at x (x = somewhere between their offer and your asking). Then be prepared for a counter offer after which you either continue with the negotiation or walk away and refocus. If you leave their offer on the table, the next person would automatically come in at the reduced price which you may or may not want. It all depends on your circumstances as to what route you want to take. Xmas is not the quiet spell most think it is, it’s the time of year people are off work and dreaming about the year ahead, if you’ve an idyllic countryside spot it might do better than you think over winter.

NNo it wouldn't. If you can point out just one single purchase that was completed in one week, I'd be truly amazed. Can't happen.

If you had two focused solicitors, no hiccups like outstanding deeds registary, planning permission & certs of compliance, no distracting cases, Survayers reports, mortgages compliance, proof of funds, Cash buyers, etc etc, it could technically happen. Real life is that solicitors are working on multiple cases and backlogged. A tiny house conveyance could be done that fast IF there were none of those technicalities. Its only less than two grand usually for a fee, stuff that is pocket change for a solicitor. They are not motivated for it.