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No onward chain

No onward chain is the status of a property sale in which the seller is not also buying another property, so the sale does not depend on any further linked property transaction after the seller.

In plain English

In a property chain, a seller may need their own next purchase to happen for the sale to go ahead. Here, the seller is not moving on to buy another property, so there is no linked transaction beyond them.

In context

Here, it states that the seller is at the end of the chain because their sale is not tied to a further purchase by them.

Situation
Following home-purchase, mortgage, valuation, survey, and closing administration
What it communicates
describes the seller's chain position in the sale.

Meaning limits

The term alone does not show anything else about the sale's timing, certainty, or other conditions.

Examples

“Because the owner was moving into rented accommodation, the cottage was being sold with no onward chain.”

Core meaning

“When we asked what lay beyond the seller in the chain, the agent said there was no onward chain.”

In context