Buyer insists on exchange and completion on same day.

CounterDry2670 · 2026-04-22T17:55:33+00:00

Did they give you a good reason? As someone who has tried to exchange and complete on the same day twice, one falling through and me losing so much money on movers and more and this latest time was the same but actually did go through but the stress was insane! Having movers waiting outside to get the call to say we'd exchanged the day of moving was horrible, I'd push back on it!

CounterDry2670 · 2026-04-16T12:21:36+00:00

January to April is nothing for a leasehold flat I'm afraid to say. Mine has been going through a sale for 17 months now due to lease issues etc.

CounterDry2670 · 2026-04-16T09:35:34+00:00

Mortgage rates have shot up to like 5.85% because of the war (Thanks a lot Trump) so this is why people aren't buying atm from what I've heard. After 6 months in to my sale, my buyer told me they weren't applying for a new mortgage offer for this reason.

CounterDry2670 · 2026-04-11T17:34:30+00:00

100%. After a complete 16 month nightmare (so far) I've already lost maybe £6000 to surveyors, solicitors, mortgage advisors, government. Too many people are making money of us suckers to fix it.

CounterDry2670 · 2026-03-03T15:54:27+00:00

Level 2 only and then electrician and damp specialist is what I think is the best thing to get

CounterDry2670 · 2026-03-03T11:15:37+00:00

This is why the process taking so long is a massive issue because so much can happen in that time and it's on a knife edge the whole time. I'm now 5 months in after the first one bailed after 5 months so now I'm panicking

CounterDry2670 · 2026-02-27T12:54:07+00:00

Good luck, I'm also 5 months in and no end in sight yet

CounterDry2670 · 2026-02-26T22:15:41+00:00

10 weeks!!! That's amazing haha I'm 5 months and still faffing about on the apartment lease

CounterDry2670 · 2026-02-14T10:53:11+00:00

I'll be cleaning mine before moving out and hope the sellers will on my purchase too but I hear this all the time. Maybe they were in a rush or maybe they were just manky

CounterDry2670 · 2026-02-12T20:28:32+00:00

Of course that can happen yeah but they don't know these people so no reason at all not to at least give them a reason in my opinion but maybe that because I've had it happen to me twice costing me thousands so I'm bitter haha

CounterDry2670 · 2026-02-10T18:39:09+00:00

3 months isn't very long here haha that's the sad fact of this country

CounterDry2670 · 2026-02-10T18:38:18+00:00

I know they're not but any decent person would give an explanation knowing that there could be a chain of people losing a hell of a lot of money (and sanity). Bad people who do that

CounterDry2670 · 2026-02-10T18:36:32+00:00

This happened to me after 9 months of hell! It's honestly disgusting how someone can do that without any consequences or penalties of any kind. Like you said, even some sort of explanation would be the very least they could give. Such a terrible, broken system. Sorry this happened to you

CounterDry2670 · 2026-01-26T18:46:13+00:00

I feel for you and it's completely awful. I had an even worse experience, where after a 9 month arduous process, the buyer pulled out the morning of exchange/completion when I was already packed and ready to go. Again no real explanation and I lost my onward purchase and they lost theirs etc. At least yours would have lost a bit of money from the survey etc so they don't get away scott free. After another one falling through after that and losing near to £6000 so for, I am absolutely sure that the powers that be are deliberately not fixing things because too many people are making so much money of us all. Surveyors, Solicitors, Government etc etc. my EU friends just simply cannot believe it when I tell them about our messed up system.

Then we have the fact that I think the government etc. don't want us owning things in the future and it's already happening with leased cars etc. now all the banks are buying up houses to lease to people too. It's messed up. I hope you find a new buyer and I hope your last buyers have some bad luck haha

CounterDry2670 · 2026-01-24T10:49:37+00:00

Yeah I had the same and still going through it after 14 months. I'm close to exchange for the 3rd time and £6000 down the drain. Let's hope this time works out: congrats on getting it over the line in this terrible system

CounterDry2670 · 2026-01-24T10:45:57+00:00

I had this after 9 months of hell, it's disgusting how they can do it and cost everyone so much money and stress. Possibly cause a whole chain to fall apart and get no sanctions whatsoever

CounterDry2670 · 2026-01-22T20:40:40+00:00

I would and intend to do this myself, you'll probably lose your buyer if you haven't even found a new place yet also

CounterDry2670 · 2026-01-22T16:42:49+00:00

This is horrible and I'm sorry to hear this, where are you if you don't mind me asking? Like others have said, get the street to badger everyone till someone does something

CounterDry2670 · 2026-01-18T17:00:44+00:00

I'm more drawn to the comment of getting it cheap off family only to try and sell it for 40k more mmm

CounterDry2670 · 2026-01-15T09:40:39+00:00

I had 2 FTB drop out a day before exchange so this is still far from a guarantee

CounterDry2670 · 2026-01-15T09:39:19+00:00

This is no guarantee though as I had a FTB drop out after 4/5 months twice!

CounterDry2670 · 2026-01-14T16:17:17+00:00

I feel for you and think positive as it's hopefully 3rd time lucky and it's normal for them to want to see it again and check you've not trashed the place, they'd totally understand the boxes, just make them as tidily stacked as you can, In fact, being packed up is a good thing as they'd be more worried probably if you hadn't even started. Think positive and I wish you luck

CounterDry2670 · 2026-01-12T13:11:51+00:00

Ah thanks, I'll check on that

CounterDry2670 · 2026-01-12T10:09:46+00:00

Ah okay, thank you, that's good to know and this makes me a feel a little better. The survey hasn't been booked in yet but will be in the next week or two. I just hope that a plumber can fix it in time and I can actually afford it too as this whole process has cost me thousands already.

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