House Buying
Jun. 14th, 2011 12:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jennythereaderA couple of questions for my friends who own houses:
How long did it take you to go from "I'm (or we're) going to start looking" to "thank goodness, we're (or I'm) all moved in"?
How much of that time was spent finding the house, and how much of it was spent jumping through hoops for the bank?
How long did it take you to go from "I'm (or we're) going to start looking" to "thank goodness, we're (or I'm) all moved in"?
How much of that time was spent finding the house, and how much of it was spent jumping through hoops for the bank?
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Date: 2011-06-15 04:44 am (UTC)That was because no chain was involved and the sellers already had bought another home and were keen to sell quickly. The first house we looked at was perfect for us in location and price and size.
So finding took almost no time at all and then about 6 weeks for the legal aspects: securing mortgage (though we'd already approached our bank about what we could get etc prior to looking), title searches and the like with solicitors.
I even have the dates (from paperwork in my desk).
Our offer accepted 26 March
Sale went thorugh 13 May (ish)
Moved in 23 May