Our (reasonably) simple transaction will complete in just under three months. In fairness the last 2 weeks are delayed for non conveyancing reasons (holiday and availability of house removals) - I can't imagine anything having taken a much shorter time to proceed - searches have taken ages, ours took over 8 weeks to obtain. Our buyers had slight advantage in having being able to obtain our previous (failed) sale searches to hand. My father's home is going on the market soon and should sell very quickly, I'm toying with buying in our own searches as soon as it goes on the market to save time for a cash buyer.
House market is red hot around here. One estate agent on Anglesey have no bungalows on their books, our small local selling agent had fewer than 16 houses in total on his books and is punting for available sales. We found our new house by asking on the town that we wanted's Facebook page and got it before it was referred to an agent.
We had a survey on our purchase - one company said they were so busy that it would take three weeks to do the job. Another surveyor took it on and we had the job done in three working days at half the price of the first company...
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