Exchange of contracts
The conveyancers exchange signed contracts and the sale becomes binding on both sides. The completion date is written into the contract, often a week or two ahead and sometimes on the same day.
Completion day
Moving day, counted backwards
A completion day that runs well was planned from its end. Here is what happens on the day, and a planner that puts a real date on every job before it.
Two different days
Exchange fixes the date. Completion moves the keys.
Completion
The buyer's conveyancer sends the money, the seller's conveyancer confirms it has arrived, and the home changes hands. Only then are the keys released and the new owners can move in.
Why it is one day
Everybody moves, or nobody does
Most households in a chain are selling one home and buying another, and the money from one sale is part of how the next purchase is paid for. So the sales complete in a line, from the first-time buyer at the bottom to the household at the top, usually on the same day.
That is why the completion date is agreed across the whole chain at exchange, and why a delay at one link shows up everywhere. Our part is to know the state of every link and to say so plainly.
Working backwards
Moving-day back-planner
Enter the completion date you are working towards and how many bedrooms are being packed. Every step gets a real calendar date; a step that falls on a Sunday or a bank holiday in England and Wales moves to the day before. When exchange fixes the actual date, put that in and the plan moves with it.
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The first-night box
One box travels in the car, not the van, and is opened first. Label it on every side: by the time it is needed, every other box looks the same.
- Kettle, mugs, tea
- Bedding for every bed
- Phone chargers
- A torch
- Toilet rolls
- The screwdriver the beds need
- Something for breakfast
The day after
Check the post is arriving at the new address, read the meters again if yesterday's photographs were missed, and tell the council you have arrived. Expect one call from us, asking how the night went.
Before all of it
Start with the first visit
Every completion day on this site begins weeks earlier with a visit to the home. If you are thinking of selling in or around Llanelli, that is where to start.