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Norfolking Good

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We had our offer accepted on 4/5/21 exchanged contracts early October and moved on the 29/10/21. We were in the middle of a chain of three with both ends being chain free but our sellers were dithering all the way through hence the 6 month wait.
 
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Secretadmirer

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We were really lucky. September it was accepted and we exchanged end of December which was a little stressful with Christmas and stuff, places closing down over that time period but we did it. There was no chain either end as it was our first time buying and the person had sadly died who’s house we bought, so house was empty and both ends were just desperate to get it pushed through and tied up. If the house hadn’t of needed renovating then we could of moved in January.
 
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Former_Antelopee

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Can I also ask a question please 😊 I’m looking to buy a house. I did find one and get my offer accepted at the end of August. But due to a problem on the survey I pulled out. I just was wondering as in the 8 weeks between getting my solicitor and pulling out is it normal that they just sent off for the land reports? Or would it be expected to be further along at that point?
They said they were still waiting on the sellers solictor to send the pack? But they’d also not said they’d recieved my mortgage offer which I got end of September (although I just recieved these documents in the post today). The seller was also using the same solicitors.
Just wanted to know if this is normal as I was thinking of using a different solictor next time.
These solicitors were recommended via my mortgage advisor.
 
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AnonyGoss

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Anyone from London? Which part of London would you recommend buying? Or would you say outside of London is a better choice?
 
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Tommyb

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Hi all

Just wondering how long it took you from offer accepted to exchange contracts on a house?

We have had an offer accepted. Property is vacant and was part exchanged by the owner so is currently owned by a building company.

Thanks 😊
 
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Sunflower91

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Don’t want to de-rail the thread or anything but feeling a little stuck and anxious I’m not going to be completed by Christmas. Currently there’s the back and forth with enquiries. My solicitor says there’s 7 outstanding. Is that a lot? Or is it more dependent on what kind of enquiries they are?
 
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Kim Mild

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Former_Antelopee said:
Can I also ask a question please 😊 I’m looking to buy a house. I did find one and get my offer accepted at the end of August. But due to a problem on the survey I pulled out. I just was wondering as in the 8 weeks between getting my solicitor and pulling out is it normal that they just sent off for the land reports? Or would it be expected to be further along at that point?
They said they were still waiting on the sellers solictor to send the pack? But they’d also not said they’d recieved my mortgage offer which I got end of September (although I just recieved these documents in the post today). The seller was also using the same solicitors.
Just wanted to know if this is normal as I was thinking of using a different solictor next time.
These solicitors were recommended via my mortgage advisor.
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I was always led to believe the same solicitor couldn't act for both seller and buyer
 
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Tommyb

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Our solicitor seems really good. Really prompt responses. Recommended to us by the estate agent things are moving along. One question .. we have out survey booked for a couple of weeks time. Did you wait to go ahead with your mortgage application until after your survey was done?

Some of the mortgage booking fees are £1.5k and non refundable if we choose not to proceed so hesitant to do this before survey is complete.