'We were weeks away from moving': What ARE 買い手s and 販売人s 許すd to do as lockdown 凍結するs the 所有物／資産／財産 market?

One of the thousands of 買い手s left in limbo is Katie Beardsworth, who says her move has been put on 持つ／拘留する until the coronavirus lockdown ends.

Katie, 34, along with her husband and young son, were 予定 to move from East Yorkshire to Tyneside in a 事柄 of weeks but now 直面する an 不明確な／無期限の pause while the country waits out the 突発／発生.

Katie Beardsworth was just weeks away from moving when the lockdown took place

‘We’ve had a house sale and 購入（する） agreed for about two months,’ she says.?

All 調査するs have been done and we’re just finishing off 取引，協定ing with enquiries on both our sale and 購入（する）.

‘Under normal circumstances we’d be almost ready to 交流 契約s, so 完全にするing the sales and moving house would be within a few weeks.?

'However, we’ve been advised that our solicitors will get us up to the point of 存在 ready to 交流, but then go no その上の until the coronavirus spread has slowed enough that it would be 安全な for us to move.

‘This is for the 保護 of everyone in the chain - they don’t want anyone to be committed 合法的に to something at these uncertain times.’

Katie, who runs classical music 管理／経営 機関 Polyphony Arts, says that her solicitors and 広い地所 スパイ／執行官s have made the 状況／情勢 easier by keeping in 正規の／正選手 接触する.

She said: ‘They have kept in touch with us and the other people 伴う／関わるd, and we understand that everyone is still keen to go ahead - we certainly are! Everyone seems to be understanding of the 状況／情勢 and that we’ll all have to wait until we can proceed.'

On 最高の，を越す of the 強調する／ストレス of the 延期するd move Katie says she is also 関心d that when they 結局 do move it will be difficult to settle into their new area if communities are still self-孤立するing.

Katie is worried it will be difficult to settle in to their new area if communities are still self-孤立するing once they do 結局 move house

She said: ‘We will be moving into a new neighbourhood with our young son, and had 以前 done a 広大な／多数の／重要な 取引，協定 of thinking about how best to introduce the idea of moving away from his friends, moving to a new place, a new childcare setting - 移行ing him 滑らかに was something that was very important to us.

‘Now, we are very much in the unknown. We don’t know whether we will be able to make any new friends when we move, or whether we will have to wait to move until we are able to 循環させる more anyway. We are having to take each day/week as it comes and hope that we’re able to keep our son feeling happy and settled, no 事柄 what happens.

‘This is just one tiny part of an 前例のない 状況／情勢 that is 衝撃ing everybody, and it could be much worse, so we are staying 肯定的な and hoping for the best.

‘One 肯定的な for our 買い手 is that our garden is much tidier than it さもなければ would have been!’?

The 所有物／資産／財産 market has been frozen as 広い地所 スパイ／執行官s are 教えるd not to do viewings and valuations and 調査するs can’t happen.

一方／合間, banking 巨大（な）s Barclays and Halifax have axed a big chunk of their mortgage 範囲s ? only 申し込む／申し出ing new 取引，協定s through 仲買人s to those with the largest deposits ? and the 産業 says it has been 圧倒するd with requests for mortgage holidays.

まっただ中に all this, many are asking the 必然的な question: ‘What will happen to house prices?’

On this podcast, Simon Lambert, 物陰／風下 Boyce and Georgie 霜 look at what 買い手s and 販売人s can do, how the 凍結する is 影響する／感情ing those 予定 to move, and 調査する what could happen next for the 所有物／資産／財産 market.?

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First-time 買い手 Susanna 支持を得ようと努めるd, 29, 交流d on her new home at the start of this month, with her boyfriend.

Susanna 支持を得ようと努めるd is 予定 to move in いっそう少なく than three weeks but isn't sure if this will still go ahead

At that time, coronavirus was not the 問題／発行する in Britain that it is now, and no 告示s about lockdown or not buying a home had been made by the 政府.

As such, the couple had no 関心s about 訴訟／進行 with the 購入（する） of the 所有物／資産／財産 in Surrey and had a 完成 date 始める，決める for 15 April.

But now, says Susanna, who?作品 for the 貯金 app Plum, the couple don't know if they can move home - and they have already given notice on their rented flat in London.?

She has been in touch with her solicitors and has been told that, so far, the move is '進歩ing as planned'.

She said: 'We're hoping the move still goes ahead on that date and is not 延期するd as we don't know what could then happen. It may be months before we move.

'If it doesn't we're 関心d about where we can go as the country has been told not to visit friends or family まっただ中に the coronavirus, let alone stay with them.'?

Our 買い手 is a 操縦する and had to pull out

Tom Matthews and his family were 予定 to 交流 on a new home but have now been left in limbo after their 買い手 put the ブレーキs on the sale.

He said: ‘Our 買い手 is no longer willing to commit to an 交流 or 完成 date, although he does iterate his 願望（する） to 購入（する） the 所有物／資産／財産 ? he just won’t say when or when he will make a 決定／判定勝ち（する） on that.?

'He is a 操縦する for an 航空機による so has perhaps seen some of the worst of the ウイルス from an 経済的な 見地.'

Tom Matthews was 予定 to 交流 on a new home but has now been left in limbo

Tom was still hoping to move with his wife Daniella, 30, and two-year-old son, but he said that no longer seems possible.

He said: ‘For now at least, we are in limbo. I want to buy and move but our 買い手 isn’t committing and there is no use my relisting the 所有物／資産／財産 as we can’t arrange any viewings on it for the foreseeable.’