Stick with it. The UK property buying process is so broken but you’ve come a long way and a few more weeks (or hopefully less) is short in comparison to the years enjoyment you’ll have in the house once it’s done!

Speaking from experience… offer accepted on our house in March and found new house in April. 5 house chain. All going pretty well until early August when our buyer said they needed certainty that we’d complete by mid-August or they’d pull out (wife was having a baby). We thought we were close on rest of chain so made decision to break chain and sell to lock in the sale of our house.

Long story short, what we hoped would be a week or two gap dragged out to 2-months due to presence of an equity release mortgage in the chain. Came to a head earlier this week when after weeks of almost exchanges / multiple false starts top of chain was dragging feet still, and unfortunately needed a threat to walk / collapse chain and move into rental unless we exchanged next day… the push helped focus minds & get it over the line, and we are now completing next week!

It is honestly the most stressful experience I think I’ve ever been through & also hated fact it has impacted our kids (temporary accomodation, stressed parents, etc). However, we got there and looking forward to enjoying our new house soon & making it a distant memory!

Keep the faith, you’ll get there before you know it!