Gazumped after paying out for survey.....do we have any rights?

themanbearpig

Cause £200 worth of damage to the house?

Woodywoodside_2

viva999 wrote: »

Wonder if anyone can help? We were recently gazumped on a holiday home after paying over £200 for a survey and a verbal 'sale agreed' with the vendor.
We told the EA that we would only pay out for a survey if they took the house off the market which they promptly did but at the last minute the vendor told us that he'd had an offer for his original asking price and was backing out of the sale!

I'm well aware that this happens to people all the time but don't the estate agents have ANY responsibility towards us as their customers (ie. a code of conduct), after all we've paid out for nothing!!

Also when my partner confronted them about showing people round after the house was supposed to be off the market, he was told the people hasd been 'just passing'
which is highly unlikely as the place was well of the beaten track, at the edgeof a cliff with no 'for sale' sign outside.....highly suspicious!!!
:mad::mad::mad:

NO is the short answer we have been gazumped after 3 months and paying for planning and new plans to be drawn up we lost over £1500.00 when we went to exchange they said they had a better offer and that it would be unethical to tell us what is was. We were buying an old school and it was being sold by the town council.