Sale agreed (for the third time) but vendor won't budge

Mrs_ted

A very selfish vender who does not appreciate your needs. I hope this gets sorted or you find an even better house. Good Luck

marcofoo

Thanks for all the input.

I have agreed with the estate agent to meet the vendor face-to-face. I'll report back as things progress, or not.

zzzLazyDaisy

I suspect that your problem is that the vendor actually likes living there, and has no real wish to move, but has no option but to market the house because there is another beneficiary on the scene.

If that really is the case, you are never going to get anywhere with the vendor, because he isn't serious about selling the house and the other beneficiary is not doing enough to push this along. You get this all the time with divorces - the court says sell the house and split the proceeds, so the person living in the house puts it up for sale, but then strings it out for ages because they don't actually want to move. If you find out that this dynamic is going on, then I'd say drop it like a hot brick and look elsewhere.

As for getting anything towards your wasted fees etc.... unfortunately, assuming you are in England or Wales, the vendor is free to do what he likes until contracts have been exchanged - that includes giving his solicitor instructions to take no steps to deal with the paperwork until he has found somewhere else to live, which, let's face it, he isn't going to do willingly, by the look of things.