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House buying/selling - Need advice please
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I am just about at the end of my tether. To cut a long story short, we are buying a lovely house, at first it was No Onward Chain, an old lady was moving in with her son, we sold our house very quickly and things were rolling nicely, then just on exchange of contracts old lady decided she wanted to buy her own bungalow near her son instead, our buyers pulled out as they would not wait, we sold our house again 8 days later luckily, this was back in July. Our buyers and ourselves are all done on the conveyancing side, but old lady's bungalow sellers are taking ages, our buyers are now threatening to pull out unless we can complete before mid October. I feel like we are being blackmailed as our buyers have not really had a long wait - we have waited 5 months ! Old ladys family and solicitor/estate agens have no sense of urgency, if there was another house we liked we would buy it - but there is really nowhere else we like. What to do?
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.I know we cant make her rent, but its either that or we lose our buyers and we pull out so the chain will break, and the house she is selling, which we are supposed to be buying, needs loads of work done and was on the market for 6 months. Her solicitors and estate agents are advising her to move into rented but she wont. So she loses our sale.
i'm afraid this is just the conveyancing proces that most people experience. the solicitors won't talk to each other, only write, and they are the generally considered the lowest in the legal profession and have no incentive to do a job quickly.
took me just under 6 months to complete on a 3 way chain.
took me just under 6 months to complete on a 3 way chain.
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