Moving home has taken a year

I last moved house 6 years ago and like the original 'griper' this took a year to do.Fron April 2000 to March 2001. Initially things were very slow which to a point suited us as we still had a few things to do. The 1st buyer cam liked it made an offer close to what we were askign all went well for 2 weeks and he dissapeared, never seen again 2nd came and wanted the huse for her older family, refused and didn't make on offer because it was too far to walk to get where the car would be parked (25 yards).
Several others came made sill offers so were refused. One couple came like the house made an acceptable offer we accepted, and things started to move. After a month they re-visited looked around again and started picking holes in the decor, new kitchen, bathroom tiles (all new) and made a fresh offer 10 grand less. Refused
Eventually an airline pilot came saw it gave us our asking price and we moved. 11 months and 17 days from when we put it up for sale.
Estate Agent - brilliant! Could not have done without him.

Property owners are nothing but conned in this country. House ownership is nothing but an abrogation by society of its reponsibility to house people adequately and reasonably.

"Cheap housing for key workers" what does that really mean?

It means that if you are not defined as being a "key-worker" you will be ripped-off.

The "key-worker" is also going to be ripped off, but they may be unaware of it for the moment.

Oh yes, a nightmare. This is my ninth home . We have lived here 3 years and did a quick sale by part-exing our semi for this detached- just to get away from bad neighbours-again! The only hold-up was the kid nextdoor smashing the windows while it was empty! Happily it stopped after we moved in.

Me too - house went on market August 2005, sold in December, fell through in January, resold in March and it took us until June to find somewhere to buy. We finally moved on 8 September.

Playing estate agents off against each other is a good ploy - that way you can beat their commission rates down. I managed 1% plus VAT, which is pretty cheap around here, and for that money I even had them doing a mail shot to selected properties when we couldn't find anything we wanted to buy!

Moving home is a nightmare and there's absolutely no questioning that at all. They say it is one of the most stressful things you can do and with estate agents, solicitors etc. mucking you around you could end up being banged up.

I have been trying to sell my bungalow but it is in such bad condition and with the house prices shooting up no onw will buy it!
It is valued at: £150,000
One bedroom, Kitchen, Lounge and Lesbo Room

My house is on the market for the third time in three years each and every time the sale has fallen though due to the incompetence of either the agent or the solicitor. (Thanks to Goodfellows Cheam)

I'm selling at the moment and really wish I wasnt, to avoid the hideousness of the commission estate agents I went with a pay up front lot from bethnal green - well they'd been featured on London tonight so I thought they would be ok. They took my cash and never did a thing.. terrible situation. I will end up paying a proper agent to do the business.

I so wish that the majority of estate agents and property lawyers were not a bunch of incompetant twits but sadly they are. They lie and manipulate the truth and blame each other for the hold ups. Come on guys why not just admit you are crap and pay some compensation instead of spending our money on your nosebag....... you might even function better

O my God - i'm just about to put my house on the market. And now i'm really dreading it.

I has surveyors from Halifax survey my house from there office.. I had solicitor sit on a Morgage reply for 3months and all this person had to do is return a phone call. There should be a law on the speed of these people. Just think if you took that long in tesco.. or buying a car.. Its so wrong!!