FTB in a neverending purchase

harrup

gazareth wrote: »

I feel your pain! We had an offer accepted on 14th December and have been waiting for our sellers to find a place ever since. They did find somewhere in February but it fell through as the survey revealed Japanese knotweed and they were not prepared to deal with it.

We are still looking around but in total we have viewed 25 houses in quite a wide area around Oxford and haven't seen anything remotely as nice as this within our budget, so there doesn't seem like any point in threatening to pull out until we have some leverage. We have asked our sellers to go into rented twice - the second time they considered it for a week but still

Just being nosy, if you permit - were you aware of your sellers position - i.e. that they hadn't found anything suitable when they put the house on the market and that they weren't prepared to go into rented - from the outset or did that only transpire along the way? Was it a case that they said" we"ll accept your offer in principle but, given our situation, we don't want you to spend out on surveys, solicitors, etc as yet" ?

Or did they let you merely proceed and then start to stall?

To be candid....I can't help feeling that your vendors are lukewarm, at best, about the sale. As this has been going on since December, by Joves.....

gazareth

harrup wrote: »

Just being nosy, if you permit - were you aware of your sellers position - i.e. that they hadn't found anything suitable when they put the house on the market and that they weren't prepared to go into rented - from the outset or did that only transpire along the way? Was it a case that they said" we"ll accept your offer in principle but, given our situation, we don't want you to spend out on surveys, solicitors, etc as yet" ?

Or did they let you merely proceed and then start to stall?

To be candid....I can't help feeling that your vendors are lukewarm, at best, about the sale. As this has been going on since December, by Joves.....

The day we viewed, the sellers told us that they were in a sealed bids situation for a house. We made our offer later that day and the EA said they wanted to wait until they heard the result of the sealed bids. They lost out on that house, so they pushed back on price and accepted our second offer. Since then they have been continuing to search. We are 99% sure that the house that they found in February is the same one they put the sealed bid on as the EA said it was one they had previously lost out on but that it had fallen through for the successful bidder (and now we know why!).

Since then we've been told various things like "they are avidly looking" and "they are desperately looking" and "it's a question of when not if", but obviously we can't live in empty promises!