Mickie_Cricket-
The sale was so straightforward. List to completion in under 7 weeks...
7 months and counting on the purchase, including a lady in her 80's who was understandably not keen to move house with Covid, and the mid-divorce bloke changing his mind every few weeks.
My searches have expired and now need redoing. Been on the phone to First Direct to get my porting gap and mortgage offers extended as they've been impacted by Covid related stuff...
Now I just need to time it so that there's a market crash immediately after it finally completes and my house buying fail will be complete.
Hence thinking I might suggest just breaking the chain, buying the place and then renting it back so that at least my bit is mostly done...
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Offer accepted back in November, originally planned to exchange in Jan but top of the chain collapsed. Then planning on exchanging a few days before lockdown. 5 or so house chain that seem to be in limbo waiting (after the top pulled out of selling).
Fuck a duck you've been through a saga, hoping it works out.
Exchanged this morning :)
Delay ended up meaning I'll save on stamp duty :))
Complete on Thursday :)))
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Had been planning on exchanging a few days before lockdown. 5 or so house chain that seem to be in limbo waiting (after the top pulled out of selling). New top of the chain planned on renting (is going through divorce so needed to sell).
And now seller at the top has decided he'd like to find somewhere to buy rather than rent. This is 6 months into the purchase and at odds with what he's been telling everyone for months. WAC
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I'm the start of the chain. My seller wants to sell.
Stupid to consider buying her place and renting it to her so that she has money in the bank to go house shopping?