Concerns about estate agent

lordreid

Edddy:

1. Cash buyer does have two meanings according the EA's code of conduct but not as you suggest. Neither covers this situation - read here http://www.tpos.co.uk/downloads/TPOE27-1%20Code%20of%20Practice%20for%20Residential%20Estate%20Agents%20(Effective%20from%201%20August%202011).PDF

2. I find your attitude to missing property appalling. If property is taken then it is theft and I certainly can 'have a go' at the agent for it if I find evidence of it as he is the only one with access to the house.

The courts simply would not agree with you on the latter point.

lordreid

Additionally, if the EA is unaware of his own code then he is guilty of poor practice.

If he was aware of his own code, he has deliberately misled us on the 'cash buyer' issue.

The length of time is not the issue:lying is the issue and potentially stealing.

lordreid

17b Cash Buyer. A ‘cash buyer’ can only be described as such if he has realisable cash
assets, that is:
● he has sufficient cash in the bank, building society or other investments, which can be realised in a reasonable time, that is, it will be available by the estimated or proposed exchange of contracts and completion dates; or
● he has actually sold a property, that he has exchanged contracts (in Scotland, conclusion of missives) and is expected to achieve completion on his sale before exchange on his purchase and he does not require a mortgage to make up any difference in the purchase price of the new property.

Kynthia

Unless you are willing to pull out of the sale there's not a lot you can do about being misled into a chain.


I would advise you get the keys off the EA now just so that your mind is at rest about anything else going missing. Then don't involve them in your plans for the furniture. Once you are definite about items being missing you can then confront the EA about what happened to them and possible make a complaint or report to the police.