Badger Stuffer

Me and the wife went to look at a house at the weekend and fell in love with it. Loads of character. Massive annex at the bottom of the 170ft garden.

We didn't even bother haggling and just offered the asking price.

Just had a call from the estate agent and the offer has been accepted.

I am a happy bunny now for the rest of the day.



[Edited by Badger Stuffer - 4/23/2003 9:53:41 AM]

Scooby Snacks 23

Well done Jason - hope things go smoothly and that you're soon moving in mate!

ChrisB

I'm a month into buying my first place.

What's an average sort of wait from agreeing a price to getting the keys?

daiscooby

Congrats matey
Took me 5 moves and a fortune to solicitors and parasites, whoops sorry estate agents to find my ideal home. Still here to stay for a long while now.
Happy moving

[Edited by daiscooby - 4/23/2003 9:57:57 AM]

Scooby Snacks 23

Anything from 2 to 6 months, depending on the chain I would say.

Puff The Magic Wagon!

iTrader: (2)

Thought we had ours sown up but yesterday the endor has asked for "best & final offers" [img]images/smilies/mad.gif[/img]

Just awaiting the outcome...

ChrisB

6 months - **** me!

CEL

iTrader: (1)

Puff, best of luck, we have been in that situation twice in the last 6 months and lost out to a higher bidder [img]images/smilies/mad.gif[/img]

Hope you get it

Chris

Scooby Snacks 23

ChrisB - it may be quicker, as I say, it depends on chain.
We bought a house last year, 2nd to last in the chain, with three above and it took four and a half months.

At times, it feels like an eternity!!

P20SPD

iTrader: (1)

Chris, learn to shout at the solicitors dealing with the transactions. From experience, solicitors have one pace ... there own slow one.

Puff The Magic Wagon!

iTrader: (2)

FFS [img]images/smilies/mad.gif[/img]

We've lost the house "solely" because the other people have a pony & the current owners would like to think that the field that comes with the property is being used.



WTF?

Like, what would we be doing with it? Concreting 3.5 acres?

Not a happy bunny [img]images/smilies/mad.gif[/img]

Sorry BS - don't want to detract from you & your happiness & I hope it all goes well & you're very happy in your new home

Stuffed Badger

up to 6 MONTHS!!OMG
Well we will know by the end of the day how many are in "the chain" so hopefully a couple of months we will have our dream house.
BS, can I have my guinea pig now???

ChrisB

Steven,

My solictors shouldn't be a problem... I look after their PCs and my Mum works there

Stuffed Badger

Puff: it's hard when you lose the house you fall in love with, but at the end of the day you have to look at it as it wasn't meant to be and a better one will be round the corner. Good luck to you and Mrs Puff in finding you future home.

Badger Stuffer

Puff.......Sorry to hear that mate. Fecking pathetic desision that was.

Keep looking mate and I am sure you will find something better and look back on this as a blessing in disguise.

Wife.....Not yey..

dnb

It's the vendor's solicitors you have to watch! - Our vendor's solicitor wanted to play golf instead of completing on our purchase last time... It wouldn't have been so bad if the vendor hadn't told us that we had to complete by the end of the month, and it was the last working day of the month!

He got his ear bent severely 4 times - by me, my solicitor, the vendor and my mother-in-law!! He didn't play golf that day...

Badger Stuffer

PMSL.....Classic. Set the mother in law on them....

SWRTWannabe

BS - Congratulations! I remember house hunting and when you actually find the right place it is so good!

ChrisB - Hope all goes well with the house buying! When I bought my first house, it went through in about five/six weeks - I was a first time buyer, the lady I was buying off was moving in with her fiance - next door!

When my wife and I bought our house we were "first time buyers" again, as we had been renting for a time - this time round there was a chain that broke at the top, and the whole process took about four months

I would take anything an estate agent tells you with a pinch of salt. Through the four months we got to know our seller, and the people they were buying from too - and we knew what was going on, and it was quite different to the stories we were getting from the estate agents

P20SPD

iTrader: (1)

Chris, you still need to push them. Honest.

The last time, the buyers of our house were so slow, we actually had to complete on our new house 3 weeks before we completed on our old house. What was annoying was the fact they were in rented accomodation, and wanted to be moved in quickly before the end of the month. 2 months later, the only way we got action was to tell them, unless i have a cheque in my bank account by wednesday at 3pm, the house is for sale again.

Amazing how quick they can work, when they have to.

Brendan Hughes

Grrr...

Have been looking to buy a house here for almost two years. Have only found 2 we like. The first we lost as my work started hearing rumours that we would move to a different country. It was heartbreaking to lose such a good place. BUT Found the second in January, way better than the first AND considerably cheaper, offer accepted in Feb, and it is normally 2 weeks before signing a contract. Just as we were about to sign we found that the ex husband had put a charge on the house so the bank wouldn't lend me the money to buy it. I've spent the last 2 months trying to find out how to get the charge removed. Off to a bank at lunchtime, and land registry tomorrow, to continue the tale.

Jase and wife - best of luck, but don't get too mentally attached to it, as it really hurts if it goes wrong. Which in good old UK (as well as Portugal), it can do.

ChrisB

Cheers SWRT Just spoken to the estate agents and they think (hmm!) my seller is buying a vacant house, so a nice small chain.

Point taken Steven - but I know I'm not going to fobbed off on the phone or that somebody is “out at lunch” when my Mum can go downstairs and speak to the person doing my house

Stuffed Badger

Brendan, the only way the charge can be removed is if the ex-husband discharges it,he is obviously protecting any money he has invested in the property, it might be worth contacting him to offer a solution,which will also mean haggling on the price of the house to reflect this. Good luck.

MarkO

I feel sorry for all you guys who've just had offers accepted on houses. Word has it that the market's going to crash by 20-30% any minute.

Badger Stuffer

Is that according to Anal_Lube?....

I'll risk it.

Edited for pore speeling..

[Edited by Badger Stuffer - 4/23/2003 11:44:30 AM]

ChrisB

I've still got another lung to sell yet, so I'm not worrying.

[Edited by ChrisB - 4/23/2003 11:54:23 AM]

Brendan Hughes

SB - I'm in Portugal, why do you think the bureaucracy would be that simple?

From what I understand, it was put on by the bank (due to her not paying her ex, or summat; it was about five grand, so not much), and so she should pay the bank, which she now claims to have done. The problem is, whether the bank can remove the charge directly from the land registry, in which case all well and good, or if it has to go to court to do it. In a month, no-one can give me a straight answer. If the court, then legal procedures here are apparently notorious, people cannot predict if it will take a month or a year for the court to process the case even though it is purely procedural.

In summary, I've been waiting two months or more to make a post just like your hubby has done today - believe me, you'll know about it when I sign!

DrEvil

Congrats Jason - hope the buy goes well.

We exchanged contracts today on our place and complete on the 2 May!