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Where you are buying and selling at the same time then the length of time it takes you to move will inevitably be longer than just a sale or purchase. Assuming there are 2 to 3 people in the chain (and no-one changes their minds for whatever reason and pulls out) then a reasonable time frame would be 8-12 weeks.
In terms of time to process it varies on how complete their information is sometimes it takes us 2 days for us to get a hold of a landlord out of state. Ideally we shoot for about 24 hours once we receive an application to getting a yes or no either you are approved or you are not within 24 hours.