House buyers withdraw offer!!!

moneyistooshorttomention

Re points mentioned on the house - it seems to be regarded as almost mandatory for a surveyor to find something or other "wrong" with a house and, with what they have mentioned and how little basis in fact there seems to be for it, then it would appear the house is in pretty good order. Hence, I doubt the house itself is the problem.

I would echo previous poster here who thinks the reason for their withdrawal is probably to do with their own personal circumstances, rather than anything to do with the house. It might be more useful to find out (if possible) where they work - rather than trying to get hold of this survey. With that - you might find that one of them has just lost a job and the reason they aren't proceeding is because they can't afford to.

Some shop assistants with big chains are in process of losing their jobs or might possibly be fearful of doing so right now for instance. I can certainly think of one big chain that hasn't announced it has problems - but I made sure I spent the voucher I had for them pdq to get my money's worth on it because my feeling is they will be going down soon.

anselld

Redman76 wrote: »

. I have put a dehumidifier in there today, and after 5hrs, had nothing more than a dreg of water in the bucket!!!
CONFUSED AND FRUSTRATED!!!

This doesn't prove anything either way to be honest. Dehumidifiers rely on a cold plate to condense water so they are ineffective in low temperatures.

SleeplessinScandinavia

I agree with others here - that the purchaser could have any number of reasons to withdraw.

Some folks read the cold, hard print of the survey report - and it scares them off! On the other hand, a telephone conversation with the surveyor may well provide reassurance that the points made really shouldn't dissuade a purchaser from proceeding.

You could always try and see what the survey said - but lets face it, if you were shown a copy of the report you would, in a sense, be getting a 'free survey', so I wouldn't be too hopeful

Just a thought

:cool:

greenface

if the deal is dead its dead. they have a survey report thats no use to them so offer to buy it off them. I knew the person that bought my last house (and the suveyor) and we worked through the survey doing and reducing it together. Roof valleys, gutter a little pointing etc. Sale went through no problems though.. Good luck with your house sale

andy.m_2

if you really must know whats wrong and you have a few quid ssved you could always get your own survey done.

No use to any buyer but would help you iron out issues.

bigchrissyg

We asked our buyer who withdrew for a copy of their survey as we were genuinely concerned by the apparent issues it raised. Turned out to be a surveyor who obviously had a negative view, but such is life. Turns out the phone call to the surveyor afterwards is what swayed their decision.

Otherwise, the paperwork was just stating the usual 'cover my !!!' statements.

Nice of our previous buyer to allow this, but certainly it's not a given they will do this.

Good luck, get it back on the market.