Hello All
I have posted a couple of times about moving house. Well, next Friday will see us moving from Surrey to Devon, we are very excited to be doing our escape to the country. It may be helpful to share how long it has all taken us, in the end. We put our house on the market in January. Our buyer was in place by the beginning of March. By mid march we had our offer accepted on the house in Devon (but bear in mind that we have been looking at different areas for a year and had made around eight separate trips over weekends to scout out various places). The owners of the house we are buying are relocating to another part of the country and their sellers are moving into a new build. Hence, including our buyers selling to first time buyers, we landed up being in a chain of five. We had a very tense couple of weeks where the solicitors started arguing with each other (yes, really, too complex to go into!) We had hoped to move by the beginning of June but we were at the mercy of the rest of the chain and just sat tight and waited until a date was agreed. We finally exchanged contracts on 26 May and actually having this month to say our goodbyes and pack up our stuff in a leisurely way has worked well. We don't have jobs to go to or other commitments, being newly retired, so the actual date was not so important for us. But there is no doubt it's still a very stressful thing to do and the lawyers want ever increasing amount of paperwork. OUr estate agent is just across the road and has been very good, but I wish we had chosen a local solicitor rather than a conveyancing company based miles away, which made for variable levels of communication, usually electronic and took an age to get responses.
We are looking forward to being closer to family and also having space to have people to stay and the time to enjoy a different pace. Good luck to anyone else planning a similar move!
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