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legaladvice
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  • Annisele
    Annisele Posts: 4,835 Forumite
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    You as the buyer won't have to pay agent fees - you haven't signed a contract with the agent.

    The seller will have to pay whatever fees he's agreed to pay. And the agent will find out - not rocket science to monitor the Land Registry for houses you had on your books a little while ago!
  • legaladvice
    legaladvice Posts: 8 Forumite
    edited 21 May 2013 at 6:42PM
    abrakadabraoreiro
  • grifferz
    grifferz Posts: 568 Forumite
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    Hello and thank you for your answer. The thing is that the seller wants that parrents of my wife buy the house for us. We havent signed any contract, we have never been in office of the agent. We only phoned him, as we were interested particularly in this one property. What we are afraid of is vicarious liability.
    There is none, as already stated. Buyer usually has no contract with the estate agent. Unless you remember entering into a contract with this estate agent yourself for some reason, they have no legally-enforcible expectations of you.
  • martindow
    martindow Posts: 10,575 Forumite
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    The thing is that the seller wants that parrents of my wife buy the house for us.
    This will never work. If your parents buy it they will also have to pay for it. If you are getting the mortgage you have to buy it in your names. The seller has a contract with the agent who has made the introduction, no matter how useless or incompetent they have been.
  • legaladvice
    legaladvice Posts: 8 Forumite
    edited 21 May 2013 at 6:43PM
    abrakadabraoreiro
  • legaladvice
    legaladvice Posts: 8 Forumite
    edited 21 May 2013 at 6:43PM
    abrakadabraoreiro
  • bebewoo
    bebewoo Posts: 622 Forumite
    You won't have to pay any agents fees, it is the seller who pays the agent fees. The seller will have to pay these fees as it was the agent who introduced you, it is an introduction fee.
    If the seller wants to proceed with the sale without using the estate agent then that's no problem, you just get your solicitors to deal directly with each other.
    It's not your concern whether the seller tells the agent, or if the agent finds out through some other means.
    The seller seems to want you to have a lot of hassle just to save himself a few thousand pounds of agents fees.
    (Most agents are terrible and lie and play games by the way)
  • legaladvice
    legaladvice Posts: 8 Forumite
    edited 21 May 2013 at 6:43PM
    abrakadabraoreiro
  • maninthestreet
    maninthestreet Posts: 16,127 Forumite
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    Why does the seller want your wife's parents to buy the house???
    "You were only supposed to blow the bl**dy doors off!!"
  • legaladvice
    legaladvice Posts: 8 Forumite
    edited 21 May 2013 at 6:43PM
    abrakadabraoreiro
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