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Poppy9 wrote:I didn't say the buyer had a breach of contract but the vendor did. While it's desirable that everything is written into a contract there are certain terms which are implied. i.e. the EA will ensure that potential buyers are introduced in a timely fashion to the vendors. If I was the vendor I would take the matter up with the EA and refuse to pay full fee. As the vendor is using a solicitor anyway for the sale it would be cost effective to get the solicitor to write to the EA to set out why the vendor is unhappy and withholding full fees.
As I said before I don't think that the agent has done a very good job, however they have introduced a buyer, albeit in a roundabout way. The vendor wouldn't have a leg to stand on if they withheld fees. Ultimately the EA has fullfilled the contract, ie, introduced a buyer. If the EA hadn't heen advertising the property then the buyer wouldn't have known about it and wouldn't be able to buy it, therefore the EA have done their job!
The best way for the vendor to deal with it would be to complain to the agent and ask for a reduction in fees due to the viewing not being made straightaway.My home is usually the House Buying, Renting and Selling Forum where I can be found trying to (sometimes unsucessfully) prove that not all Estate Agents are crooks. With 20 years experience of Sales/Lettings and having bought and sold many of my own properties I've usually got something to say
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personally, if the seller is as pi@@ed off with the agent as you are, i would would go to the end of the earth not to pay this agent!0
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Nobody knows why the appointment wasn't made. I've had cases where we have tried to contact a vendor numerous times to arrange a viewing, they don't come back to us because they have lost, changed or dropped the mobile down the loo. They haven't checked their ansaphone message 'cos nobody rings me on that, they all use the mobile'. Sometimes the viewer has been passing, seen the vendor & gone into view there & then. Doesn't mean there has been a breach of contract on anybody's behalf.0
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