House selling questions

[Sandra6]

For those of you with experience of selling a property, could you give me a rough idea (and I appreciate no two sales are ever the same) of how long it took to get things moving.
After you accepted an offer and instructed a solicitor, how long did it take for them to send you paperwork to sign?
After you send it back - what happens next ?
Tia.

 

[Beebo]

it depends how long and stable your chain is.
Last time we moved it took 9 months because the chain kept breaking.
with no chain it could take 4 weeks.

 

[mark st1]

Depends how many holidays your solicitor fancy's having you pay for.

 

[Tcr4x4]

Took 6 months from me making the offer to getting the keys on this place.
Bloody outrageous.

No broken chain, just completely useless solicitor.

He didn't even know the house was stamp duty exempt until we told him cos a friend who works in the planning dept told us.

 

[Rustybucket]

Currently 2 month's in. Solicitors are useless already tried to charge us twice for some fees, and we have to always chase them up to get anything done!

 

[The Jogger]

The searches take the longest but imo on average from eight to twelve weeks start to finish.

 

[Doseone]

If there is no chain it should take as long as you tell your solicitor you want it to - by that I mean that you need to remember that you are the client and can call the shots.

If there is a chain unfortunately it tends to go at the speed of the slowest link.

If you just want an idea of the average length it takes - 6-8 weeks to exchange, another 2 weeks to a month after that to completion.

 

[Chris Norton]

Bought one place in 4 weeks from start to finish. Sold same taking 3 months due to buyers solicitors. It REALLY all depends on the solicitors. These cheap by mail jobs are f~@k{}g terrible. Got myself a good one that only does conveyancing, has a funky afro and knows the business inside out so much he got the seller of my current house to indemnify me if the original family that owned the land the house is built on comes back and requires the land back because there was no bill of sale when the house was built.

Oh, and the house was built in 1852.

Good solicitor will smooth it all out.

 

[Nigel-YZ1]

I'll be completing on thursday after 6 weeks.

 

[cyberknight]

Depends on the chain, how good your solicitors are etc.
It can be done in under 6 weeks from offer to moving in if theres no chain and your solicitor is good , my last move was horrendous as we sold, found a property but the sellers fecked around and kept saying they could not find anything for nearly 3 months so we pulled out .They then relisted at the same price , sold within a week and moved into rented to keep the new sale ,so we ended up further away from schools and family than we wanted in a more expensive house .
Our solicitor did wonders keeping a 8 house chain moving and we moved out on the day the 1st time buyers at the bottom of the chain were about to pull out .

 

[roadrash]

we have just sold our house .......................dont think the council will be too pleased when they find out

 

[Salad Dodger]

We complete a purchase on Tuesday of a house that we viewed, and made an offer on, at the end of May. In this particular case, it appears to have been the seller who has been holding things up. He is elderly and has been slow to answer any correspondence sent to him.

We accepted an offer on our house 2 weeks ago - it was only on the market for about a week - and we understand that the prospective buyer has got an "in principle" mortgage offer. We have been told that draft contracts have been sent to the buyer's solicitor, but no-one has been to do a survey yet, and without that, there won't be a mortgage, and without that there won't be a sale. Looks like it will take 8 or 10 weeks, at least, from start to finish...

It's very hard to give an answer to how long the process "should" take. You might have the most efficient solicitor in the world, but if the seller is not in a rush to move, or someone along the chain has got a delay of some sort, then everyone must wait......

Best of luck with your move, Sandra6.

 

[Sandra6]

There's no chain at all, we've moved out already and the lad buying is a first time buyer, so I thought it might be fairly quick but we accepted the offer at the end of July, the surveys were done mind August and the solicitors instructed, but we've only just been sent the paperwork to sign for them to act for us.
I've just read through it and my first concern is that the letter is dated 19th August and says the paperwork must be returned within 14 days of the date of the letter!!! Bit tricky as it only arrived on 20th September. I'm hoping it's a typo -as there are a couple of those in the rest of the letter!!
My second concern is that the fees quoted are 1000 times more than we were told, again I'm hoping for a typo.
Doesn't fill you with confidence though does it?!
It took us 6months to complete when we bought it, but that was down to the sellers being stupid. I really need it to not drag out that long this time.
Thanks for your input.
I'll be on the phone shortly, fingers crossed.

 

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[Beebo]

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